Your Questions About Green Living

Globalization Questions?

List three problems that stem from globalization.

What are some environmental issues related to globalization?

“you can’t run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.” What does this suggest for the future of globalization?

said it is the government’s job to take care of us? Do you agree? Think about some of the serious issues that affect the future of the earth. What role, if any, should government have in finding solutions?

What changes are needed to make sure our economic system supports, rather than destroys, the planet’s biological systems on which we depend?

Should the Catholic Church lose its tax exempt status in the US?

“And while the church recognizes the importance of a wide range of issues — from war to immigration to poverty — fighting abortion should be a priority, the bishops said.”

“The bishops say helping the poor should be a top priority in government, providing health care, taking in refugees and protecting the rights of workers, and the bishops highlight the need for environmental protection.

However, they also oppose same-sex marriage, euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research, in addition to their staunch anti-abortion position.

The prelates say torture is “always wrong” and they express “serious moral concerns” about “preventive use of military force.’ But at the last minute Wednesday, they added a sentence acknowledging “the continuing threat of fanatical extremism and global terror.'”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071114/ap_on_re_us/catholic_bishops

Environmental concerns!?

i have a scenario for people who are concerned about the environment.

if you live around the US-Canada border then u might know that the garbage from Toronto is shipped to Michigan to fill up the land. the trucks that carry the garbage from Toronto pass through mostly farmland and residential areas, and some industrial/commercial areas.
lets pretend that you are a transport company employee. now what concerns will you have regarding this issue. also try to consider environmental impacts in your answer.

Good Luck!

Conservatives do you agree with our Liberal agenda and if not why not?

The living standards of workers and the natural environment on which life depends are under constant attack due to the drive for maximum profits inherent in capitalism. Our party fights for jobs and economic security, a decent and rising standard of living, peace, justice, equality, a sustainable environment, gay rights, health care, education, affordable housing, the needs of seniors, democracy, and a fulfilling life for everyone, with socialism as our goal. Only through the abolition of the capitalist system and the socialist reorganization of society can exploitation of human beings by others, and the evils of oppression, war, racism, environmental degradation, and poverty be ended. We seek to build a socialist society which puts people and nature before profits.

Our country’s founding Revolution exalted the ideals of equality, justice, and democracy, of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all. Marxists have long hailed its progressive significance, while recognizing its historical limitations, chief of which was the failure to abolish slavery. The Communist Party today upholds the continuing struggle to realize these ideals. The revolutionary democratic traditions of the United States call for radical change when injustice, inequality, and exploitation become unbearably oppressive. This legacy gives us, the working class and its allies, the right and responsibility to build a new society. We advocate an expanded Bill of Rights to guarantee religious, political, and individual freedoms, but also freedom from poverty, hunger, joblessness, and racism

Racism plays a particularly destructive role in the life of our country, imposing severely impoverished living standards on tens of millions of the specially oppressed, and lowering the quality of life for all workers. Racism harms all workers, obstructing the development of working-class consciousness, driving wedges in class unity to divert attention from class exploitation, and creating extra profits for the capitalist class. The Communist Party is unalterably opposed to all manifestations of racism, national oppression, U.S. national chauvinism, male supremacy, homophobia, and anti-Semitism, which are used by the enemies of progress to divide the working class and people’s forces. The principles of democracy, equality, justice, and class self-interest require a joint fight against all expressions of racism and gender oppression. We fight for full equality for all who suffer from racial, national, and gender oppression as an essential aspect of the unity that is basic to all social progress.

Issues of war and peace, wealth and poverty, ecology and pollution, racial and national division, gender discrimination, and international conflict are all connected to class struggle, and have common features on which to build unity among peoples, organizations, and coalitions. The working class as the necessary leading force along with the other core forces—all racially and nationally oppressed groups, women, and youth—can build a movement that also includes the many streams of our working people—such as family farmers, small business owners, and the self-employed—who united together have the power to make fundamental progressive change.

What if your favorite environmental/animal rights book?

I am looking for more books about veganism, animal rights, the environment – which are packed with information.

I have already read (or am reading) the following:

Skinny B****h
Animal Factories
The Food Revolution
In Defense of Food

Are these any good?

The Long Emergency
A Spring Without Bees
Animal Liberation
This Borrowed Earth

Any suggestions, ideas, comments? I love to stay active and read a lot of the current issues. I’m not a huge fan of books that make us scared of everything (like “Slow Death by Rubber Duck”) – OR is that not one of those kind? Have you read it?
Any environmental options?