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Should children be raised gender neutral?
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What, specifically, does raising a child "gender neutral" actually mean? I agree that it would be preferable to avoid raising a child in a way that aleviates some of the negative aspects of the culture's gender identies, but this alone could not be considered "gender neutral". For instance, you could raise a boy without encouraging aggression or raise a girl without encouraging subsurviance, but still not raise them "gender nuetral".
In essence, to raise a child "gender neutral" means raising the child in denial of their gender. It means telling a young boy "you are not a boy", or telling a young girl "you are a girl, but that is completely irrelevant to anything in your life, or who you are". It is a form of deception and dishonesty. In short, it is a lie.
While gender is irrelevant to many aspects of life, community, and industry, it is certainly relevant to the child's identity and sense of selfhood. It will play a major role in the way he is perceived by others (both possitively and negatively), and how he perceives himself. While some aspects of gender role are cultural, some of them are purely biological, so not all aspects of gender identity can be avoided. Even if we could avoid the biological aspects of gender roles, the cultural aspects will still play a role in the child's life, especially if they are raised within that culture, and while we might one day strive to have a completely "gender nuetral" society,for whatever reason, to raise a child gender neutral in a society which is not can cause serious psychological damage to the child and is therfor completely unethical.
In short, raising a child "gender neutral" can only confuse the child and prevent them from understanding themselves and their relationship with others. To actively participate in the prevention of such understanding is, in a very real sense, a form of child abuse. This is something which we all instrinsically understand, and that understanding becomes obvious with a simple question:
Is it appropriate to dress up a young boy in a pretty pink dress before you send him out to play?
By raising a child gender neutral it would stop stereotyping. Just like girl should be cheering for the boys that are out on the field. Stereotyping is a harmful thing in society and can be harmful to a child as well. If a child believes that they act more like a girl but society tells the young boy he shouldn't be acting like that it can psychologically break down the young boy. By doing this it challenges gender stereotypes and gives freedom to the child to choose how he/she wants to look, act, and become as a person.
I asked if it was "appropriate" for a parent to dress a boy up in a pretty pink dress, and you did not answer. I was not asserting that that doing so constitutes raising a child "gender nuetral". It was to illustrate the problem with, as I said "actively participat[ing] in the prevention of such understanding", which I assumed was what you meant with the term "gender neutral".
However, if a boy wanted to dress up in a pretty pink dress before going out to play, and you, as a parent, did not attempt to stop him from doing so or warn him about the predictable consequences of that decision, that would qualify as raising a child "gender neutral" according to your definition that the parents "don't tell them you HAVE to be a certain way", or put "pressure or influence on what should be the outcome of their gender [identity]".
I'll accept your definition, as stated here:
"Being raised gender neutral simply means that the parents are not influencing what their child should look like or be doing."
The parents "are not influencing what their child should look like or be doing"? If that is what raising a child "gender neutral" is, then I see a very serious problem with it. I believe there is another word for "inluencing" what their children "are doing" - it's called "parenting".
"By raising a child gender neutral it would stop stereotyping."
How will it stop "stereotyping"? If parents raised a son, who is gay, in a "gender neutral" way, he might still accept a stereotypical identity of an effeminate gay male. A girl might accept a sterotypical identity of a "tom boy". Please explain how a parent "not influencing" a child would "stop sterotyping" - you are making a claim, but not backing it up with any evidence.
"If a child believes that they act more like a girl but society tells the young boy he shouldn't be acting like that it can psychologically break down the young boy."
I agree that children should be allowed to explore there own selves, but part of that exploration is the interaction with other people and the community, and it is the obligation of the parent to influence that exploration to be a safe, enjoyable experience rather than a confusing, traumatizing one. I agree that some children have personality traits that are not accepted in society, and can be ridiculed by their peers. I was one of them. However, this has nothing to do with gender any more than it has to do with ethnic background. The problem isn't with gender identity in this case, nor can this problem be fixed by raising a child "gender neutral". This problem is solved by raising children to respect themselves and understand their place in the world and their relationship with others.
I think you still have a problem with the definition of raising a child "gender neutral". Please tell me what that would actually look like. It sounds to me that you are actually talking about the morality of parents imposing cultural stereotypes onto their children against their children's wishes. If that is the case, then you really need to spend a little more time defining what, exactly, behavior it is you are defending or condemning.
I think I agree with you, to an extent. However, because of the lack of clarity in your position, it's hard to know what it is I'm supposed to be agreeing or disagreeing with.
This depends on your own definition of appropriate. By you asserting on whether it is "appropriate" to dress a boy up in a pretty pink dress, it is assumed that you believe it is not appropriate. However, people have different opinions on what their children do. If a boy wants to put on a dress or crown during play time then all the power to him. Because if that is what he wants to do, and if he thinks that nothing is wrong with that, then yes it is appropriate.
By raising a child gender neutral you are not influencing in their decisions on what they want to do or look like. Therefore, you aren't telling them "what a girl should do" and "what a boy should do". A stereotype is defined as "a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group." By not telling them you should wear pink because you're a girl or you shouldn't wear pink because your a boy you are reducing the stereotype.
"If a child believes that they act more like a girl but society tells the young boy he shouldn't be acting like that it can psychologically break down the young boy." "However, this has nothing to do with gender any more than it has to do with ethnic background."
If a child is ridiculed on what they think their gender is, not sex, then it does relate to the issue of gender neutral. By using the gender neutral process it will begin to lessen the ridicule he or she gets in society.
I didn't assert it was appropriate. I asked the question. You're answer seams to be "yes, it is appropriate to dress up a young boy in a pretty pink dress before you send him out to play", even though you don't want to explicitly state that.
You're ignoring the basic responsibilities of the parent. At some point, the will of the child to assert itself and its identity must be respected, even if that identity doesn't conform to cultural mores, but that is a far cry from ignoring your responsibilities of explaining what those mores are, and preparing them for the outside world.
You assert that raising a child "gender neutral" will "lessen the ridicule". You are essentially saying that dressing a boy in a pretty pink dress will evetually lessen the child's ridicule. This is absurd.
It shouldn't be seen as wrong if a boy wants to wear a dress. It isn't anyone's decision but his own. By time, if more and more children are going against the typical gender roles, like a boy wearing a dress, then in fact people will become more equip to the idea. Therefore, it will lessen the ridicule of the child.
I think we are in agreement that you should not impose an identity on a child. We are also in agreement that parents have a responsibility to care for the child.
What we don't seam to be in agreement with is the definition of the phrase "gender neutral". The reason for this, I suspect, is that you, yourself are not in agreement with yourself about the term, and keep altering the definition each round.
I initially started out arguing against raising a child "gender neutral", using e LITERAL definitions of the words, which you changed, essentially saying that 'raising a child gender neutral doesn't mean literally raising a child gender neutral'. The definition in round two was "gender neutral simply means that the parents are not influencing what their child should look like or be doing", which contained glaring errors which I brought up.
In round three, you stated that it means you aren't telling them "what a girl should do" and "what a boy should do", I assume in all situations, so we are back to the first definition.
However, mostly you tried to describe what it is not, and gave examples of what you think things "should" or "shouldn't" be.
"It shouldn't be seen as wrong if a boy wants to wear a dress."
Maybe not. In some cultures, it IS not, and is actually expected, but in those very same cultures, gender identity still plays a role in society and in how individuals view themselves and each other.
"It isn't anyone's decision but his own."
No, it isn't. However, the parents have decisions to make, too, and one of the decisions is how to teach children about sexual identity (not whether to teach them, but how, as avoiding the topic or pretending gender doesn't exist will just lead to confusion).
Some day, in the future, racism may not exist. Does that mean a black child should not be warned about racism? In the future, being gay may be truly accepted in society. Does that mean boys who show early signs of fabulousness shouldn't be warned about others?
Your idealism is admirable, and I agree with it. However, it is unrealistic to the point of child abuse. Whether you want the world to be a different place, you still need to accept what kind of place it is now. Whether you want to let the child find its own identity or not, parents still have a tremendous influence over the identities of their children.
Even in your Utopian world where everyone is "raised" gender-neutral, it still doesn't guarantee that children will be gender-neutral, because the biological differences between the two sexes is not arbitrary -- it is hormones running through our veins and motivating men to be men and women to be women.
I do agree with you that parents have to make decisions for their children, which they do. They make the decision for they child to choose how they want to live their lives. They aren't avoiding the topic of the child's sex, because the parents that raise their children this way make their children aware that they are a boy or girl. They just don't try to influence them into doing typical girl things or typical boy things.
"Some day, in the future, racism may not exist. Does that mean a black child should not be warned about racism? In the future, being gay may be truly accepted in society. Does that mean boys who show early signs of fabulousness shouldn't be warned about others?"
It is true that someday racism may not exist. But the child will still be educated on it since it is an important factor that happened in society. Just like a child being raised gender neutral will be educated on his or her sex.
I can accept your views because everyone has different views on how to raise their child. But this is just an upcoming idea that is coming into society. The main idea that I want to point out is that this can be a future way that people will raise their children.
It is true that men and women have different hormones that run through their veins that motivate men to be men and women to be women. But that would be a different argument on what about the people who believe they were born gay. By the time they were young they believed they were born in the wrong body. Like a girl believes that she should have been born a man.
Pro and I agree on many things here. However, Pro has been a little too elusive to pin down, defining and re-defining what it means to raise a child "gender neutral" several times, and never by an actually definition, but instead improperly defining it through example, ie "By raising a child gender neutral you are not influencing in their decisions on what they want to do or look like", or by defining what it is not, ie "raising your child gender neutral it doesn't mean you aren't preparing them for the outside world".
Pro's argument fails because it continually moves the goalpost. Pro's position also fails becuase it can not answer the simple question I posed in the first round of debate, constantly skirting around the issue and refusing to give a simple "yes" or "no":
"Is it appropriate to dress a young boy in a pretty pink dress before you send him out to play"
The answer to that question, in my opinion, is the answer to the question Pro asked to instigate this debate.
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What I mean exactly is the more taxes you pay the more votes you get towards and election.
For example someone who pays $200,000 in taxes alone should get a much larger vote over someone who paid $3000 in taxes.
It only makes sense to me that the people who pay the greater amount should have the majority say in who will be elected since its those people that are always being taxed.
Thanks for reading, please give your opinion on this.
The top 1 percent of the country would have 99% of all voting rights, and you might as well not vote at all if you don't pay many taxes.
The system would be completely top heavy and poor and middle class people would lose their voice all together.
The taxes you pay shouldn't count for anything in terms how many votes you get in the democratic process.
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Posted by Lookingatissues 1 year ago
There is a certain logic too in allowing those who pay more into government to have more to say in government just as there is there a certain logic in property owners having a weighted vote in what is to be done in a area where their property is located over renters.
Posted by IKnowWhatToDoWithMyMoney 1 year ago
How exactly is it any bit fair that your tax rate increases the more you make.
Someone making $40,000 will pay about 20% of their income to taxes.
While someone making $200,000 will pay 50% of there income to taxes.
Just remember this system only runs on tax money, all these benefits and entitlements that are provided all come
From a the tax payers pocket. So why exactly should the people who provide the most money through taxes have an equal vote to someone who pays none?
Democracy only works until people learn that they can elect governments who promise free stuff. And that point it fails.
If you want to talk equal then how about they create a flat tax rate. So everyone pays the save percentage of their income.
Because this current tax rate penalizes people for being successful, or trying to grow their business.
As a result we've lost countless numbers of jobs and tax revenue from people leaving the country to find another with a lower tax rate. Or businesses set up shop in Mexico, China and other countries with similar tax rates.
Posted by TheBenC 1 year ago
Posted by Jimolopolas 1 year ago
So all in all, this is a very bad idea when your aim is to create an equal society of fair opportunity, as you will simply pave the way for the 1% to rule over the 99%.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard listened to Rocket Ismail, Magic Johnson, Bo Schembechler and his parents before deciding to forgo a final year of eligibility at Michigan and play pro football.
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"When he called, he just told me to come here," said Howard's mother, Hattie, who received a call in Cleveland from her son about midnight Monday. "We learned it when you all learned it."
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HOUSTON --A young woman who had been missing since Friday night has been found alive and well, and a search effort for her has been called off.
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NACE Experience! Conference & Expo
After World War II, many companies who had been involved in making war products had to find another product to manufacture, and their efforts fueled a manufacturing revolution. The large number of new products resulted in traveling salesmen as well as the beginning of the sales meetings as we know them today. This coincided with an increase in air travel, which meant that leisure travelers were also beginning to occupying hotel rooms for extended stays.
Noticing the increase in revenue from business travelers, hotels set up sales departments and began to create meeting and ballroom space especially for this business. As the number of people in hotel sales and other executive positions increased, several saw the need to create associations. Among those formed were the American Hotel Association, The Hotel Sales and Marketing Association and the Food Service Executives Association.
From its local beginnings in New York City, NACE has grown to encompass more than 4,000 members in more than 40 chapters in North America, continuing to raise the standard of professionalism in the industry through its education and certification, its standards, ethics and professional recognition programs. NACE remains dedicated to growing and changing with the industry's needs, continuing to provide critical resources for all its members, wherever they are in their careers and whatever their position.
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Several hotels began to hire sales managers specifically to sell catering. Initially, most of these individuals reported to the sales and marketing department but as the potential for business increased, several of the hotels established a separate catering department. The Waldorf Astoria in New York City was one of the first to create such a department and, following their lead, other hotels did too. As more hotels in New York added catering departments they recruited from the Waldorf Astoria for directors of catering to run their departments. In fact, probably the first 15 to 18 DOCs in New York were employed originally at the Waldorf Astoria.
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Hotel directors decided that they needed to form an organization to retain as much business as they could amongst themselves, as well as to promote good fellowship and relations. They also felt that their positions were not being recognized on the same level as the directors of sales and marketing and wanted to promote their positions through an association. The Banquet Managers Guild was formed. For two years the Banquet Managers Guild existed only in New York City.
Joe Haney, who had previously worked at the Waldorf Astoria, left to be general manager of the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia. He encouraged his catering manager, Vincent DeFinis, to join the Banquet Managers Guild in New York. Vincent went to see Clyde Harris, then president of the Guild, saw the potential for the association, and joined the guild as member number twelve.
Travel to New York on a regular basis was difficult for Mr. DeFinis, so he began forming a Philadelphia chapter. He accomplished this, making the Banquet Managers Guild a national association. The Guild continued to expand, and chapters were soon added in Atlantic City, Washington D.C., Boston, St. Louis, Miami, Chicago and Atlanta.
The Guild's first seminar was held at the Bellevue-Stratford hotel in Philadelphia with 32 attendees. This was followed by the next year with 50 people in attendance in the Wedgewood room of the Waldorf Astoria. From this beginning, the NACE conference grew into the annual, cutting edge industry event we know today.
The Guild changed its name to the National Association of Catering Executives to reflect better the trends in industry job titles and the increase in off-premise caterers.
The Association reached more than 1,000 members and strengthened its focus on education by forming the NACE Foundation.
The Certified Catering Executive designation was created and the first certification exam was administered.
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www.naceuniversity.org is launched, first online exam is administered.
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The NACE delegates unanimously vote for a new new name changed to National Association for Catering and Events (NACE).
Editors note: As NACE approached its 50th year, the organization was saddened to announce Vince's passing in November 2007. Vince became a symbol of the association's longevity, growth, and success. He attended almost every educational conference, earned his CPCE, and shared his wisdom, knowledge, and history of NACE with all who crossed his path. Read a tribute to Vince by Jerry Edwards, CPCE, and former national president, who talks about Vince as a friend and mentor.
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Thales to provide Qatar Airways with new mutimedia system
French aerospace giant Thales is to provide Qatar Airways with state-of-the-art in-flight entertainment systems in a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the companies announced on Wednesday.
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Egyptian authorities have raised their terror alert status to the highest level and are reportedly prepared for potential attacks on Christmas and New Year's Eve from radial Islamic groups in the nation's places of worship.
Catholics celebrate Christmas on December 25, while Orthodox Christian's observe it on January 7.
"Egyptian Christians are asking for prayers for God's protection to paralyze the hands of the evil one so no terrorist attack, no shooting, no fear may spoil the joy and cause the loss of any lives or any injuries during the Christmas and the New Year's Eve celebrations," said a Christian leader in Egypt, according to aina.org.
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Last week, the Minister of Works, Transport and Infrastructure, Papali'i Niko Lee Hang, was quite firm in his opposition to plans by the Samoa Shipping Corporation to invest in a hotel-type accommodation at Mulifanua.
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Dear Editor, Prime Minister Tuilaepa is absolutely right about the issue of the Chinese debt. While Tonga may be struggling to repay loans, Samoa certainly is not. Asking for a debt write-off is tantamount to admitting that Tonga is going to default.
The decision made by Government to prioritise commercial farmers regarding the distribution of banana has received a backlash from members of the public. Our reporter, Adel Fruean asked the public about their opinion on the decision made by the Government and they responded:
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There is a common Samoan saying: "Tau mai na o le pua e ulā; se'i mai le mui'a'a" – "Pick only the most fragrant of frangipani; harvest the royal roots". It is both a directive and a gentle plea.
Those parking meters A lot has been said about the Government's move to install parking meters - good and bad.
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One of the little known paths that led to the Brown vs. Board of Education decision 60 years ago ran through California.
The same year as the Dred Scott decision, 1857, the daughter of Peter Lester, one of the leaders of the Underground Railroad in San Francisco and California, was denied admission to a school because of her race. It was less than a decade after Capt. William Alexander Leidesdorff dedicated California's first public school. But by 1854, colored students were placed in a segregated school on Broadway. The exclusion of Lester's daughter was one of the incidents which led to the Exodus of 1858 when 700 of San Francisco's 1,500 black residents moved to Victoria, British Columbia at the invitation of the black provincial governor James Douglass.
Those who stayed continued the fight for justice. Mary Ellen Pleasant would fund the case of Charlotte Brown, the teenaged daughter of her associate James Brown, in the 1864 case which found that street car segregation was illegal. Later that year, she would file her own case on the same issue.
By 1872, soon after the passage of the 15th Amendment, Mary Frances Ward, an eleven-year-old would attempt to enter Broadway Grammar School, which had been reserved for white students. When the principal, Noah Flood, refused her admission, her parents, A.J. and Harriet Ward, filed suit in the case Ward v. Flood to end school segregation. That case was unsuccessful exactly 80 years before Brown v. Board of Education.
In 1890, Wysinger v. Cruickshank did end school segregation in California, 64 years before Brown vs. Board of Education. The sites of Lester, Leidesdorff, Ward, Pleasant and the schools are part of the African-American Freedom Trail in San Francisco, a collection of locations which contributed to the growth of democracy in the United States and worldwide. More details on the history of civil rights litigation in California can be found in Come to the Water: Sharing the Rich Black Experience in San Francisco. or in the documentary The African-American Freedom Trail.
It matters that California school children like Earl Warren in the early 20th century were already accustomed to attending integrated schools. Among his playmates in Bakersfield were the brothers of Mrs. Tarea Hall Pittman, the regional director of the NAACP, and a fellow graduate of the UC-Berkeley, like Warren. One of Warren's friends at Berkeley was Walter Gordon, the school's first black football player and later among the first black policemen in Oakland, when Warren would start his political career as district attorney.
In Oakland, Warren would see the extraordinary role of African-Americans in the World War II victory and witness the integrated labor unions along the waterfront. In 1946, California would vote on an initiative to create a fair employment practices law. He would be governor of California when Loren Miller,, a Los Angeles attorney, would win the U.S. Supreme Court case ending restrictive racial covenents for real estate subdivisions and when Pasadena's Jackie Robinson, a UCLA alumnus, would desegregate major league baseball.


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Scientists and unavoidable advocacy
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We don't often hear news of a climate scientist taking a clear position on public policy matters, and it's even more rare that we encounter news of someone high profile in the field, like James Hansen, being arrested at a demonstration against a coal fired power plant. How you feel about such incidents and the general notion of scientists being advocates is a highly personal, and often emotion, topic. This is why I think it's worth my time and yours to take a few minutes to consider a piece written by Julie Halpert for The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, Researchers Point to 'Moral Obligation,' 'Good Citizens' in Urging Scientists to 'Speak Up' on Policy:
In recent essays, first in Conservation Biology, and then in an abbreviated commentary in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the researchers provide a literature review on arguments both for and against scientists' moving into the realm of policy advocacy based on their findings. Vucetich says that many of the papers previously written on this subject weren't comprehensive. "We wanted to do something synthetic to handle the various reasons (for and against advocacy) that we knew of at the time."
So the two researchers performed a literature search of existing arguments for and against advocacy by scientists. First, they laid out the arguments against advocacy: that it could sacrifice credibility, conflict in some way with some aspect of science, take time away from doing basic research, or require developing a new skill set.
Then they laid out the arguments for advocacy: that science is a value-laden work, representing "a kind of unavoidable advocacy," that failure to advocate could be harmful to society, and that a scientist, as a citizen, has an obligation to advocate.
Nelson and Vucetich say they had no preconceived notion of their argument in advance, and instead used pro and con reasoning to lead them to their conclusions. The arguments for advocacy held up better than the arguments against it, they say. "The authors conclude that scientists have a "moral obligation" as "good citizens" to "advocate to the best of their ability in the interest of helping society."
"At the end of the day, we took a strong position" that scientists are obligated to be advocates, Nelson said. Being a citizen first, and a privileged one, obligates scientists to be an advocate, he says, adding that it is the scientist's duty, as a citizen, to speak up for what he or she believes is right. "I cringe when I think of a wimpy Rachel Carson," he says.
But some scientists say that merely getting the information to the public isn't working. "Those of us in environmental science are increasingly seeing that scientific information is not enough for the policy to change in a way that addresses pressing environmental issues," says Mark Hixon, a professor in the Department of Zoology at Oregon State University. Since he says science on its own isn't stimulating society to address pressing environmental issues, it behooves scientists to "try something new." And "that means putting ourselves on the line, engaging in the policy forums and political debates." He says it makes no sense for scientists to sit back and hand over their data, then not participate in the policy or political debates.
"We're dealing with such pressing issues right now that the Earth's environmental systems are approaching thresholds beyond which things are going to get really bad," Hixon says. "Scientists who understand that cannot sit back and wait for somebody else to carry the banner."
Sandifer said in a phone interview that government scientists also need to discuss with their colleagues the significance of their research results and that they shouldn't shy away from making recommendations. He says NOAA expects its scientists to provide advice to the agency on issues within its mission, for example such as how to maintain a sustainable fishery or recover it if it is overfished. Based on the research, it may be entirely appropriate, he says, for scientists to urge action to limit greenhouse gasses, while not prescribing what those actions specifically should be.
But some other government sources see the science/public policy spheres in more black and white terms: "As scientists for the government, we can't be advocates," says EPA spokesman Cathy Milbourne.
As always, please go read it all.
I doubt anyone here will be surprised when I say that I strongly favor activism by scientists, largely for the reasons outlined above. Looking at this purely in terms of a costs and benefits, it seems clear to me that whether we're talking about society as a whole or even individual scientists, the benefits outweigh the cots. Certainly there are cases where more extreme and less prudent examples of advocacy can result in a scientist harming his or her career, leading to a bad outcome for that individual. In the case of climate change, the benefits from improved public policy regarding CO2 emissions (assuming the scientist has any positive impact at all) could be far outweighed by opportunities lost. My instinct is that such cases would be statistical outliers, and would have as much or more to do with the scientist's lack of judgment in the political arena than anything else.
I think it's also critically important to be clear when discussing this issue to define what one means by advocacy. As one speaker quoted above points out, there is advocating for lower CO2 emissions, and then there is supporting a particular policy prescription for achieving that goal. Some of the climate scientists I exchange e-mail with are always on alert for pronouncements by non-scientists or scientists in other fields regarding climate. Similarly, climate scientists should tread lightly when outside of their own area of expertise. If James Hansen says we absolutely must reduce our use of coal (or somehow find a way to implement and broadly roll out workable carbon capture technology) very quickly as part of a crash effort in reducing CO2, he's clearly on solid ground, and he has mountains of data to back up his claim. The impacts of not following that prescription will be terrible, to say the least. But when he speaks out strongly against a cap and trade policy and advocates instead for a carbon tax with a 100% refund to consumers, he's on much thinner ice (as is just about anyone who ventures out into the intersection of economics and public policy for any reason).
Another factor at play here, one that doesn't get enough attention, is the disappearance of affordable luxuries. The timing involved in climate change and its knock-on effects for water issues, food supplies, biodiversity loss, etc., most notably due to the lock-in effect of CO2 emissions, make it clear we've already eliminated any chance of finding a cheap, easy, or comfortable solution. We should have been on a war footing to deal with this mess even before Hansen's famous 1988 testimony before the US Congress, yet we still aren't, and there's no sign we will be any time soon. One of the losses inherent in this situation is the luxury of the traditional view of scientists and society, in which they remain aloof, provide dispassionate data, and let the political sphere decide what, if anything, to do with it. That kind of compartmentilization of roles in society fails to serve our collective needs when we're already in an emergency.
In more graphic terms, when an apartment house full of people is already on fire the last thing you need is someone with a PhD in fire science forcing you to sit and listen to her PowerPoint presentation on the Top Ten Ways to Avoid a House Fire. You need her to start giving orders, right this minute, and then you need to follow those orders in an effort to minimize human injury and property damage. Sound overblown? Read the current literature on our myriad, interlocking sustainability issues and then try to tell me the house isn't already on fire and haven't already reached the point where we need the experts doing everything they can to help us.
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I had two units last season. Both worked great initially, but both units developed nagging carburetor problems.
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It can be purchased for less than the other string trimmers above. However, a good dealer is essential. There have been update kits that are free at your local Kawasaki dealer. The first ones off the assembly string had a rough start. The later ones have supposedly been improved. I really liked this trimmer for the first few months, so I will retest new ones this year. Keep you posted.
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Fireplace InspirationTuesday, August 08, 2017
One of the features I'm most excited about in our house is the fireplace. It was built on the wall that separated a family room from a formal living room. Since two living spaces seemed pointless to us and we really wanted an open-concept layout, we decided to remove the wall and create a walk-around fireplace. It will still separate the two rooms but make everything look much more open. The three sides of the fireplace that were originally hidden behind drywall will be covered once again (I'm thinking shiplap!!) and the front will remain brick. I'm still on the fence about painting the brick white. I think I want to live with it for a while before deciding whether a lighter color would look better.
I've had to search high and low to find some photos of what I have in mind. Most of what I was able to find are pictures of two-sided fireplaces. Ours will only have an opening on one side, but the look will more or less be the same. I can't wait to see how it turns out!