Comments for Mjschwartz's Weblog http://mjschwartz.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:01:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Is Global Warming an Issue? by theglaringfacts http://mjschwartz.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/is-global-warming-an-issue/#comment-7 theglaringfacts Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:01:16 +0000 http://mjschwartz.wordpress.com/?p=5#comment-7 Hey, this is an interesting blog posting. I enjoyed reading it very much. Sometimes I wonder why there is skepticism about the environmental movement. People just want to be skeptical it seems. It's like a human nature or something. It appears as though people create issues out of nothing. I notice that the skeptics of the environmentalism movement attack pretty viciously at the mediums in which the environmentalism message is presented. For example, a talk show host and comedian may bash at Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth because it was a film and not because it was based on sound scientific fact. I think maybe skeptics are out there because they either do not understand or misunderstand the environmentalists. I've created a non-profit environmental advertising organzation to help environmentalists develop better advertisings using the Extended Parallel Process Model. The website is: www.green-atlas.com. It was a pleasure reading your blog. Keep writing! Sufi http://theglaringfacts.wordpress.com www.green-atlas.com Hey, this is an interesting blog posting. I enjoyed reading it very much. Sometimes I wonder why there is skepticism about the environmental movement. People just want to be skeptical it seems. It’s like a human nature or something. It appears as though people create issues out of nothing.

I notice that the skeptics of the environmentalism movement attack pretty viciously at the mediums in which the environmentalism message is presented. For example, a talk show host and comedian may bash at Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth because it was a film and not because it was based on sound scientific fact.

I think maybe skeptics are out there because they either do not understand or misunderstand the environmentalists. I’ve created a non-profit environmental advertising organzation to help environmentalists develop better advertisings using the Extended Parallel Process Model. The website is: http://www.green-atlas.com. It was a pleasure reading your blog. Keep writing!

Sufi
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http://www.green-atlas.com

]]> Comment on Rhetoric of Environmentalism by andrewjaykinney http://mjschwartz.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/rhetoric-of-environmentalism/#comment-4 andrewjaykinney Tue, 20 May 2008 16:22:21 +0000 http://mjschwartz.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-4 Ayn Rand! Oh dear. I have an Ayn Rand theory. I like to call it the "gateway theory." Ayn Rand is a "gateway" book (like a "gateway drug"). Once you try Rand, you will be tempted to try other, harder books. Based on armchair research and anecdotal evidence, the correlation between people I know who read Ayn Rand when younger and "graduated" to more radical, complex, "important" thinkers later on is fairly high. And the result doesn't seem to be identifiably ideological. After all, I still have Rand's libertarianism challenging right/left notions at every step. If anything, the left has carelessly allowed Rand to be claimed by the right. Given her non-traditional values, I'm not quite sure how that happened. I also suspect that her version of capitalism is a purer version than anything practiced today. Ayn Rand! Oh dear. I have an Ayn Rand theory. I like to call it the “gateway theory.” Ayn Rand is a “gateway” book (like a “gateway drug”). Once you try Rand, you will be tempted to try other, harder books. Based on armchair research and anecdotal evidence, the correlation between people I know who read Ayn Rand when younger and “graduated” to more radical, complex, “important” thinkers later on is fairly high. And the result doesn’t seem to be identifiably ideological. After all, I still have Rand’s libertarianism challenging right/left notions at every step. If anything, the left has carelessly allowed Rand to be claimed by the right. Given her non-traditional values, I’m not quite sure how that happened. I also suspect that her version of capitalism is a purer version than anything practiced today.

]]> Comment on Obese America by drewjubeck http://mjschwartz.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/obese-america/#comment-3 drewjubeck Tue, 20 May 2008 14:26:04 +0000 http://mjschwartz.wordpress.com/?p=13#comment-3 I agree with you on your thoughts of a balanced meal now being considered "to go" and i also agree that the prices of "good healthy food" have become borderline outrageous. organic food has become probably the most expensive items in the supermarket with milk at 6 dollars a gallon. Another factor that you did not mention is the our country being "the fast food nation". Fast food has become one of the main options to get out of cooking dinner or getting dinner fast. Fast food is not very healthy at all and im guessing that it contributes to fat america I agree with you on your thoughts of a balanced meal now being considered “to go” and i also agree that the prices of “good healthy food” have become borderline outrageous. organic food has become probably the most expensive items in the supermarket with milk at 6 dollars a gallon. Another factor that you did not mention is the our country being “the fast food nation”. Fast food has become one of the main options to get out of cooking dinner or getting dinner fast. Fast food is not very healthy at all and im guessing that it contributes to fat america

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