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> Globally, it’s estimated that a hundred million people live within three feet of mean high tide and another hundred million or so live within six feet of it. Hundreds of millions more live in areas likely to be affected by increasingly destructive storm surges.
Climate scientists do and have studied the link between climate and the sun, as well as many other factors, but in the end GHG emissions from humans are contributing the most to increasing global temperatures.
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wor...
Also while it's a big system, there are also 7 billion of us. In 2012 we released over 30 billion tonnes of C02 into the atmosphere.
https://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=90&...
The lazy in me would actually like this in a weekly email.
http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/03/infinite-scr...
This is their mission statement:
"Idealist connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.
Idealist is independent of any government, political ideology, or religious creed. Our work is guided by the common desire of our members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect."
A good book on the policies that helped kill unions and weaken the middle class is Who Stole the American Dream by Hedrick Smith.
http://www.amazon.com/Stole-American-Dream-Hedrick-Smith-ebo...
Yes! Magazine came out with a good series not too long ago on cooperatives in operation today, their varieties, their benefits. http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/how-cooperatives-are-drivi...
"Contribute tracks to other people's songs. Open up your songs for other people's contributions. Clone/version/remix existing songs."
I have in my pocket a wad of clay. I flatten it into a pancake and its face lights up with the book I was reading on the subway. Roll it into a ball, thin it out, maybe a special twist and it forms itself into a screwdriver. Another squeeze and it becomes my house key.
> Anti-tipping advocates often championed an egalitarian vision of capitalist consumption in which both consumer and employee would benefit. Tipping, they maintained, undermined the dignity and independence of citizens in a democracy. “Let us not congratulate the servants on their gain,” one writer admonished, “for no servant takes a tip without losing something of manhood or womanhood.” Another argued that to accept a tip “is to enter into a relationship of dependence to the giver and by implication to acknowledge his superiority.” Frank Crane, a syndicated columnist, contended that the tip put waiters “into a class with the beggar, or the receiver of a bribe.” And Alvin Harlow, a historian popular at the time, wrote: “What, may I ask, is more un-American than tipping? It doesn’t belong in American society; it doesn’t belong in a democracy. It is a product of lands where for centuries there has been a servile class.” http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/summer2012/features/tip...
According to this site there were 724 purchasing co-ops in the US in 2009. Those would be stores like REI or food co-ops where the consumer is part-owner.
The total number of cooperatives, including worker-owned business like Land o Lakes and ACE Hardware, credit unions, and utility co-op (25% of US power generation is publicly owned) is 29,000 with revenues around $625 billion.
Secondly, regardless of what someone might think of climate change, you can't get around the fact that the Earth doesn't have infinite resources and is neither an infinite wastebasket. Something has to change about with how we do business to fix that fundamental issue.