The United Nations estimates that it would cost an additional $3.5 billion per year to provide contraceptive information and services to the more than 220 million women in the developing world who want to avoid a pregnancy but who are not using a modern method of contraception. (That’s less than 4 percent of what Americans spend on beer each year.)
dinopello wrote:Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot - Probably not much of an uplifting coffee table book but it does seem to have lots of pictures. Some are quite beautiful and not all in an apocalyptic way. The site link above lets you read the entire thing online and see the pictures.
* The Bhagavad Gita begins before the start of the climactic Kurukshetra War, where the Pandava prince Arjuna is filled with doubt on the battlefield. Realizing that his enemies are his own relatives, beloved friends, and revered teachers, he turns to his charioteer and guide, God Incarnate Lord Shri Krishna, for advice. Krishna asks him to follow his dharma
The term dharma has a number of meanings. Fundamentally, it means "what is right"
Though, in his case it is "scorcher of enemies!" - "propagating the view that accepting and enacting the fatal course of events is an act of devotion to this god [Krishna] and his cause."
kiwichick wrote:Yanks spend $ 80 billion a year on beer?
Pops wrote:Cool, found this right offThe United Nations estimates that it would cost an additional $3.5 billion per year to provide contraceptive information and services to the more than 220 million women in the developing world who want to avoid a pregnancy but who are not using a modern method of contraception. (That’s less than 4 percent of what Americans spend on beer each year.)
kiwichick wrote:Yanks spend $ 80 billion a year on beer?
Ibon wrote:The book is a raw and honest assessment of human overshoot. Beautifully done. It should be a mandatory presentation in every high school on the planet.
Oh where is the environmental benevolent dictator when we need him or her?
Perhaps he or she is not human?
pstarr wrote:The newsprint for the Sunday edition of the New York Times was cut from 100 acres of forest, approximately 75,000 trees per edition.
How many of these adorable little things had to die for this coffee table book?
pstarr wrote:
I suggest we all of us rather than running around making an important point, learn how to enjoy ourselves locally, minimally perhaps with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Viva la revolution!
Timo wrote: It is a very damning book on the state of humanity, and everyone who reads it instantly recognizes that they are, themselves, a part of the problem, and the problem is not something that they can remove themselves from. We're a part of the human civilization, and this is what human civilization has done to the planet, and is continuing to do at an exponential rate. Thanks for ruining any enjoyment in life I might ever have again. F U, Timo!
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