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If you don't know how to fix it. Please stop breaking it.
A young girl nails what's important to the world.
*David Suzuki’s daughter speaking at United Nations.*
A young girl nails what's important to the world.
*David Suzuki’s daughter speaking at United Nations.*
I sometimes forget about Dr. Suzuki. Cool guy. Personal hero of mine.
where is she now?
In graduate school -- And she's still an environmental activist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Cullis-Suzuki
Getting up in front of the UN at age 13 takes a lot of courage -- Here's hoping enough people like her can change the tide of environmental policy before we run out of time.
Let the kids vote. Let them vote from 12 years old. Then we might see things getting done.
More pawns for conservative influence? I don't think so!
Anyway, this girl is preaching to the choir. There doesn't seem to be any corporate executive, any industrial CEO, privy to such a speech (or prepared to receive the message), who is also in a position to do the things that she calls on him or her to do. Nevertheless, the power is in the hands of the individual, the consumer, to abstain from participation, from voting with their currency, and stop encouraging malpractice with their purchases.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hYRgs3NYMzA
The hole in the ozone has always existed. Ozone is depleted by the sun's rays and when the north or south pole is exposed to constant sun light, a hole is formed.
Let's not forget that this Rio conference led to the Biodiversity Convention. http://www.cbd.int/convention/guide.shtml
Biodiversity loss will be the end of us (unless we all want to eventually rely on algae).
Anyway, this girl is preaching to the choir. There doesn't seem to be any corporate executive, any industrial CEO, privy to such a speech (or prepared to receive the message), who is also in a position to do the things that she calls on him or her to do. Nevertheless, the power is in the hands of the individual, the consumer, to abstain from participation, from voting with their currency, and stop encouraging malpractice with their purchases.
Why are you blaming the marketplace for poverty, are you freaking nuts? Look at any country like Burma or North Korea or Somalia, and I gaurantee you find that the problem lies in the system of government and whether the bulk of capital is individually controlled or "communally" (governmentally) controlled. You HAVE to have large amounts of economic freedom in order to have a prosperous country: people keeping what they earn, being allowed to enter mutually agreeable transactions with each other, enter labor contracts with each other. Government's job isn't to take that money, it's to make sure no one is infringing on each other's rights, providing recourse through a system of courts, and some legitimate national defense spending. Usually a constitution outlines these functions, to be followed and amended, but never ignored and subverted (as ours has). As people get wealthier in this scenario, it has the effect of increasing voluntary relinquishment of capital (charity). That's moral because it's their money, their choice, nothing is forced. But this whole guilt trip about people being obligated to give up the "luxury" of having more children or certain things they want for their kids because SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE has less than them is just lunacy. Why do they have less? It isn't because some capitalist pig wants to come in and offer them a job that pays more than anything else in their protectionist country. It's because they were born in a place with no resources, to irresponsible parents who were financially incapable to have them, and who do nothing but cower under their protectionist dictatorial governments. It's sad, but nobody on this earth should be paying through the nose to subsidize these people. The money just gets stolen, or it prevents a badly needed auto-determined revolt by preventing true consequence of such government.
Government has incredible powers that the private sector doesn't. They have the power to force payment (tax), create new paper money which debases the value of existing money (inflate), redirect that money to industries which bribe those in government (subsidy), ban a product from being sold in the marketplace (search: stevia, miraculin), and legislate special privilege legislation upon being bribed or lobbied (NAFTA, HMO Act, etc, etc.). So as you can see, the root cause is not industry, it's the idealist socialist enablements with whom these companies can collude to beat competition or avoid bankruptcy in a way OTHER than catering to demand and following prudent policies in so doing. Because it isn't in a greedy company's best interest to go bankrupt by taking huge investment risks, delivering products that you don't want or deceive you. They'll get sued into oblivion for the latter. Therefore, despite having the sole intention of making money, doing so requires offering you something you think will make you happier (and yes, this is your job to figure out, lol.). Adam Smith's "invisible hand" if you will.
Government, on the other hand, could make horse buggies from tax dollars that noboy buys and include it as production in GDP.
I could have written that speech when I was 13. In fact, I probably did.
There. I closed your parentheses for you.
He says... "Lo ye be not caring for your world, for it shall not last. Yea await me for I will return at rapture all half worm eaten and rotten from the grave. Yes. For real. Magic-man is real. Magic exists. Sparks shall shoot from my fingers, for I am cool. Praise me for I fly in the sky with wings, because humans with wings may ignore all aspects of aerodynamics and the lift/weight ratio required for flight. I am bound by no physics. I am not bound by reality. I am as limitless as the imagination... for that is from which I was born."
Ooh yes, she spent a whole day doing photo ops with 3rd world kids living in hell. How noble. Then she took her limo back to her white picket fence gated community far away from the smelly disgusting masses and their annoying problems.
If you want to impress someone put ALL those millions in a trust that doesn't pay you a dime and go LIVE your life in the slums and ghettos you claim to care soo much about.