Archive for August, 2008
Monday, August 18th, 2008
And there are psychology studies, when you tell people that information is incorrect, they forget that it is incorrect. They only remember the misinformation. They forget the tag associated with it. They did these great studies, especially with older people. They give them information about health, Medicare, Medicaid, that kind of stuff. And they say, “this information that you heard? It’s wrong.” And what ends up happening is, that information gets ingrained into their brains, and even if they are subsequently told it’s wrong, they end up believing it.
Photography as a Weapon
by Hany Farid
New York Times
Tags: propaganda, psycology, stencil
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
I suspect people are flattered, in a rather perverse way, by the idea that their lifestyle threatens the whole planet rather than just the livelihoods of millions of people they have never met. But the same sense of scale that flatters may also enfeeble. They may come to think that the problems are too great for them to do anything about it.
Rolling carbon/climate issues into the great moral imperative of improving the lives of the poor seems more likely to be a sustainable long term strategy. The most important thing about environmental change is that it hurts people. The basis of our response should be human solidarity.
The planet will take care of itself.
What is Your Dangerous Idea?
by Oliver Mortin
Oliver Mortin is the chief news and features editor of Nature. He is the author of Mapping Mars and Eating the Sun.
ISBN: 978-06-121495-0
Tags: climate change, James Nachtwey
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Gallons of water required to produce one pound of food:
- Beef - 5,124
- Pork - 1,630
- Chicken - 815
- Carrots - 33
- Potatoes - 23
A Pound of Flesh
Lapham’s Quarterly
Volume 1, Number 3, Page 164
Tags: ecology, food, science, water
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Here’s a sketch for a series of large, environmentally-oriented paintings that I have planned. Each painting will have a short text associated with it, but I haven’t decided whether to place the text in the painting, behind the canvas, or in a separate frame. The title of this painting is going to be “Apostles”.
It’s been raining so much that there are tiny plants growing in the median all along I-10. They point and gesture in the wind, “Jesus! All this noise and speed, for what? Are these peoples’ lives brimming with such passion that they can afford to take everything they pass for granted?”
Paul looks up and continues, “Do they see that the sun is on fire?”
A mesquite tree spreads his arms, “In five years, we’ll seed every pothole from here to California. Sparrows will nest in the left lane.”
Jesus nods and blooms.
Tags: Sketches
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