from a comment on this essay about the newfangled Vatican religion.
Since plastic is the new “Enemy Number 1,” its use has been forbidden in all of the offices of the Dicastery: all employees and officials will now bring glass beverage containers from home, use only metal cutlery, and so forth.
what? Why not just encourage the use of chopsticks: either "green" ones from bamboo, or the reusable ones.
And since Catholics are by nature missionaries, the intention [of the Dicastery] is to extend this initiative to all of the Vatican offices. But that’s not all: because of their infinite desire for the good, the Secretary of the Dicastery has also announced the objective of becoming “carbon neutral,” or neutral from the point of view of carbon anhydride emissions which – according to the theory which sees human activity as the primary cause of climate change – are alleged to be the cause of global warming.
So you mean they will cut off their airconditioning in those hot Roman summers?
The Pope says they don't need airconditioning, but a lot of Asians beg to differ. Luckily they aren't Catholic....
the Economist: Half the airconditioners used today are in Asia.
And here in the rural Philippines, the local stores are selling lots of them: local price lists starts at 8000 pesos for a small one.
Yes, the minimum wage is 300 pesos a day, but remember: Lots of people are now middle class, and often money from OFW is used to upgrade their houses: concrete houses that won't be eaten by termites, LPG stoves, televisions/DVD player, and of course cellphones are now common. But the middle class is starting to buy wash machines and airconditioners as they move out of poverty.
This article say China is buying a lot of them, but but it's okay: They set the temperature to higher than those dang Americans who are "addicted" to lower temperatures.. Duh. (but not mentioned is the reality: You don't run the Aircon that low because the price of electricity is too high to stay really cool. For example, I turn mine on when it hits 85).
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another related item:
The Federalist checks out the screaming headlines that Trumpie boy hates breast feeding.
my take here.
again, the problem is modernity and complex. Breast feeding is lifesaving in poor rural villages, where other sources of protein for children is unavailable.
But things are changing: And the world is getting more urban and richer.
Presumably the critics see all third world women as slaves to be forced into the traditional lives (which is the real basis for the modern feminist screed the Handmaid's tale: Only good for breeding and feeding.)
No, I haven't seen the TV screed, but from the descriptions it sounds more like a distortion of the problems women faced in poor countries where dire poverty (not the evil patriarchy) gave them little "freedom" if they wanted to eat.
again, without seeing modernity and the economic improvements of the last 50 years, Trumpieboy's arguments make sense for the increasingly common urban middle class woman in the third world, who now can decide to remain single, or limit their kids to 2 or 3, or to run a business but need "Yaya s" and milk formula to raise the kids.
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