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What a false choice. This is one of the reasons we are moving so slowly on this issue. Special interests and the media have done such a great job at convincing people that to move to a low-carbon economy (one where we are emitting very little global warming pollution), we have to use less energy, which in turn means turning our lifestyles upside down. Such a false choice.
The problem with seeing how we address climate change in that way is that it blinds us. We only get to see one bad path vs. another bad path, instead of one bad path vs. a very good path.
The fact is that we are creative beings. We've come this far in creating an amazing society, and there's no question that if we've invented computers, the Internet, iphones, drones, and more, we can't figure out how to tap the energy of the sun, the wind, and the Earth. There's no way we can't figure out how NOT to waste two-thirds of our energy because of inefficient appliances, machines, distribution lines, and technologies.
The very good path involves figuring out all that, and in the process creating countless jobs, making energy even cheaper, and our towns and cities even cleaner. Wouldn't that be beautiful? I wrote a piece describing exactly what that could look like, and why we ought to be talking in these terms instead: http://room4debate.com/debate/
The problem with feminism is that it has too many brands. It's often confused with women being against men, largely because many women who call themselves feminists exhibit exactly that. But the fact is that women still suffer from gender disparities, not just in the workplace but also in the family.
Feminism has a single proposition. Equal rights and respect for both men and women. When businesses pay women less for doing the same work, there's no equal rights. When our society forgets that women do most of the work at home, especially the most important work of raising children, there's no respect. When we deny women the time to care for children and forget that they have different bodies than men, we are being careless and shortsighted.
I wrote a piece about why men, myself included, ought to stand up more for women: http://room4debate.com/debate/
I don't know about you, but I know a lot of people, especially men, who were raised single-handedly by a hard-working mother. There are many of those, and it's unfair for them to have to do so much while men get to only care about being able to work.
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