Reblogged from fuckyeahtattoos
a mosaic
series of blurbs, so i once occurred
what to come, universal consciousness among
what to come, universal consciousness among
(Source: quote-book)
“every day of this new year, some 200,000 people are likely to be lifted out of…extreme poverty….the globalisation of commerce is bringing prosperity to countries whose poverty rates are falling as their economies boom….this year still looks set to be the third most prosperous in British History, and the most prosperous for the world”. What these articles have in common is their positivity and enthusiasm for the the future. For me, this is what we must keep in the forefront of our minds. So much of our media highlights the problems we all face, on a daily basis and over the longer term. I’m not interested in this. I have no way to verify most of what I read. So I choose to read the positive. Down with the Daily Mail. Let’s focus on creativity and inspiration. Let’s build the future we want in 2011. And wear more lycra.
![2012 here we come. recreation.
jayparkinsonmd:
“A human being at rest runs on 90 watts,” he says. “That’s how much power you need just to lie down. And if you’re a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you’ll need about 250 watts. That’s how much energy it takes to run about and find food. So how much energy does our lifestyle [in America] require? Well, when you add up all our calories and then you add up the energy needed to run the computer and the air-conditioner, you get an incredibly large number, somewhere around 11,000 watts. Now you can ask yourself: What kind of animal requires 11,000 watts to live? And what you find is that we have created a lifestyle where we need more watts than a blue whale. We require more energy than the biggest animal that has ever existed. That is why our lifestyle is unsustainable. We can’t have seven billion blue whales on this planet. It’s not even clear that we can afford to have 300 million blue whales.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lixgndi9qU1qz72ywo1_500.jpg)
2012 here we come. recreation.
“A human being at rest runs on 90 watts,” he says. “That’s how much power you need just to lie down. And if you’re a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you’ll need about 250 watts. That’s how much energy it takes to run about and find food. So how much energy does our lifestyle [in America] require? Well, when you add up all our calories and then you add up the energy needed to run the computer and the air-conditioner, you get an incredibly large number, somewhere around 11,000 watts. Now you can ask yourself: What kind of animal requires 11,000 watts to live? And what you find is that we have created a lifestyle where we need more watts than a blue whale. We require more energy than the biggest animal that has ever existed. That is why our lifestyle is unsustainable. We can’t have seven billion blue whales on this planet. It’s not even clear that we can afford to have 300 million blue whales.”
