Comments: John Zeiger

Social Technologies and the Environment: Has Big Coal Met Its Match?
Written On February 8, 2009, 10:50pm

With the economic recession hurting green businesses and alternate power, Senate Republicans blocking renewable energy in the stimulus bill, and all-powerful Big Coal, it's easy to be pessemistic. Thank you Mr. Walker for reminding us that we are winning: using the Internet and other social networking technology, Americans are gaining the upper hand over the coal lobby. And by the way, I watched clean coal carolers on youtube, and it was hilarious(in its blatant fakeness).
Deer vs. the Environment
Written On February 5, 2009, 7:20pm

Firstly, I never said hunting stops sprawl. In fact, although I am aware that sprawl is seriously detrimental to rural environments, I didn't promote a solution to sprawl. Instead, I believe that, in Westchester, the overpopulation of deer is decimating the local environment, so, to control the deer population, it is necesary to permit bowhunting of deer.
Deer vs. the Environment
Written On January 28, 2009, 9:12pm

I think your point is valid; people are causing a lot of environmental destruction in Westchester. However, complaining about mall contruction doesn't solve our overpopulation of deer. Anyway, before we protect more open space, we should preserve what we already have. Why should we spend millions of dollars to buy more land if we let our current propertiess be compeletely overrun? And condemning sprawl doesn't solve the problem, but hunting does. Anyway, humane methods of solving the problem, like birth control, would be too costly, and would need to be readministered anually, and conservation funds are limited as it is. Hunting, on the other hand, would be free.
The De-Malling of America
Written On November 8, 2008, 12:01pm

I think this article is overly optumistic. Even if covered malls are losing ground, strip malls, which are worse for the environment, definately are not. The solution is not to hope that the economic situation will make everything better;instead, we need new regulations, incentives, and mass transport to decrease sprawl and car exhaust and encourage downtowns.