Do you live a sustainable lifestyle?

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adairusmc

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Originally posted by: Flyback
I believe the earth was created for our consumption and personal use. Furthermore I'll be dead once it reaches problem status. Why should I care to live a sustainable lifestyle?

:thumbsup:


Hell yeah, took the words right out of my mouth.
 

Rogodin2

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Why should I care to live a sustainable lifestyle?

If you ask such a question your are beyond a rational reply and more than likely doing the rhetorical dance of a lame sophistry.

Actually, I take that back, you're just a CIDAR.

Rogo





 

Rogodin2

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The only thing that sustains me is the drive to mock Rogodin.

This could get really nasty Booba. I may offer to send you some of my pooper goat cheese for free this summer.

Rogo
 

BoberFett

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Originally posted by: Rogodin2
The only thing that sustains me is the drive to mock Rogodin.

This could get really nasty Booba. I may offer to send you some of my pooper goat cheese for free this summer.

Rogo

I'm sure your poop cheese is nasty, but don't let my taste buds get in the way of you enjoying fecal matter on your food.
 

adairusmc

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Originally posted by: BoberFett
Originally posted by: Rogodin2
The only thing that sustains me is the drive to mock Rogodin.

This could get really nasty Booba. I may offer to send you some of my pooper goat cheese for free this summer.

Rogo

I'm sure your poop cheese is nasty, but don't let my taste buds get in the way of you enjoying fecal matter on your food.

:laugh:
 

Rogodin2

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I only feed the goat poop cheese to the calves. I know it's a crappy analogy, but you require it booba-and adarminlic.

*S*

Oh-please leave my thread both of you-you don't contribute anything positive.



Rogo
 

AreaCode707

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The honest truth is that I don't know. I think the biggest question mark for me is the food I consume: is my diet sustainable? I'm not sufficiently familiar with the shipping and growing practices with most of what I eat. I get to work via public transportation, I'm not a shopper, I don't consume excessive amounts of anything...

A few years from now, yeah, I can safely say I will be. We're moving to a place where we'll be able to have goats, chickens and gardens, removing my food question mark.
 

BoberFett

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Originally posted by: Rogodin2Oh-please leave my thread both of you-you don't contribute anything positive.
Sorry, is our lack of positive contribution making you look bad? We're not trying to make you look bad, it's just so easy since you do nothing but drag your own threads down.
 

BoberFett

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Originally posted by: FleshLight
Wow, why does this little kid always flame everyone in his threads? Cry much?
Pretty much, everyone who doesn't agree with him is a wanker. Look back at all his recent threads. Anybody who doesn't fall in line and grovel at his feet because he has a hobby farm is a wanker.
 

Rogodin2

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few years from now, yeah, I can safely say I will be. We're moving to a place where we'll be able to have goats, chickens and gardens, removing my food question mark.

I'm glad to read that you seriously think about your personal and family impact on our planet HotChic. How much land will you have once you move?

I appreciate the reply.

Rogo
 

AreaCode707

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: Rogodin2
grossman

How old are you? Around 70?

I'm 30.

I've grown up on a vast volcanic basin where I worked on the land to harvest, cultivate, and plant the fields of commercial agriculture.

Rogo
You sound like the product of ducknuts breeding with a hippie chick. Did you grow up in an old apartment building rife with lead paint chips flaking off the window frames.

LOL - I haven't thought about wduaqnug forever! That alone made me crack up.
 

Rogodin2

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Wow, why does this little kid always flame everyone in his threads? Cry much?

What's your problem fllemlamp? If you don't like the my posts don't FVVCKING POST in my threads.

Rogo
 

adairusmc

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Originally posted by: Rogodin2
Wow, why does this little kid always flame everyone in his threads? Cry much?

What's your problem fllemlamp? If you don't like the my posts don't FVVCKING POST in my threads.

Rogo

He can post here if he damn well pleases, just like me. You do not own the thread.
 

AreaCode707

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Originally posted by: Rogodin2
few years from now, yeah, I can safely say I will be. We're moving to a place where we'll be able to have goats, chickens and gardens, removing my food question mark.

I'm glad to read that you seriously think about your personal and family impact on our planet HotChic. How much land will you have once you move?

I appreciate the reply.

Rogo

6 acres when we relocate. Not as much as I'd like to have some day, but enough of a start for the two of us. Log home with solar and (if we can get permits for it) hydro power. Masonry heater inside instead of fireplace/woodstove/electric/gas heating. The property is riverfront, so we'll be able to fish for salmon in season. We'll also be raising rabbits, since they're easier to raise as eating animals than are chickens.

To be honest though, the reason for doing this isn't overwhelming concern for the environment. It's because I have no faith in the supply chain that sustains our economy right now. One natural disaster that cuts off supply routes and a city starves to death. It seems stupid not to be self-sustaining, relying on the chance that nothing will ever affect your supply chain.
 

Chaotic42

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Not even close. When I was a kid we could have been close. We had a little farm in the woods where we grew lots of food. Had the cold war gone south or something similar, we could have survived well enough.

Now, however, I do not own any property and am therefore unable to farm anything. I would love to have a house with a lot of land. I wouldn't mind some solar power either, but it rains so much here that I don't know if I could sustain myself reasonably. If we can start getting 80-90% efficiency in solar power, it might be possible.
 

Rogodin2

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He can post here if he damn well pleases, just like me. You do not own the thread.

Well, let's agree that there are a few of you that don't contribute to a very important question that impacts every person on our planet. I do own the planet (in a metaphical sense).

In most cases, when someone posts an idiotic response, I reply in sleeve.

Rogo
 

murban135

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Humans have been living on earth for thousands of years with a vast variety of lifestyles. Not only is human life sustaining itself but it is flourishing. So my guess is that all of our lifestyles are sustainable.
 

AreaCode707

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Originally posted by: murban135
Humans have been living on earth for thousands of years with a vast variety of lifestyles. Not only is human life sustaining itself but it is flourishing. So my guess is that all of our lifestyles are sustainable.

The question is tricky because it assumes humans perpetually use the same resources. In truth, humans are pretty resourceful and will often resort to alternatives when their first choice is no longer an option (such as oil).
 

BoberFett

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Originally posted by: Rogodin2
I do own the planet (in a metaphical sense).
You own the planet? Not mine you don't.

PS I think the word you're looking for is "meta-fecal", Mr. Poop-cheese.
 

mercanucaribe

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Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: murban135
Humans have been living on earth for thousands of years with a vast variety of lifestyles. Not only is human life sustaining itself but it is flourishing. So my guess is that all of our lifestyles are sustainable.

The question is tricky because it assumes humans perpetually use the same resources. In truth, humans are pretty resourceful and will often resort to alternatives when their first choice is no longer an option (such as oil).

That's your opinion, just like your opinion that the earth is 6000 years old.


In any case, the human population has skyrocketed. For most of our existence on this planet, we consisted of small populations. Even then, we caused extinction of big game animals. Now, by destroying habitats, we are causing extinction of many many species. Destroying large amounts of biodiversity, that took 4.5 billion years of pure luck and evolution, on what could very well be the only life sustaining planet in the universe should be universally considered a SIN.
 

Rogodin2

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"You own the planet? Not mine you don't.

PS I think the word you're looking for is "meta-fecal", Mr. Poop-cheese."

I own yours Booba. You'll get NONE of my spelt.

Rogo