Liberal Debutante

I should start doing environmental news more regularly… but when ever I commit a day to something specific I always forget and then I never want to do it on that day anyway and it just becomes a whole personal guilt thing and that is no fun and I don’t want my blog to be [...]

I have a few posts I want to write before I pass out. I probably wont get around to them because I never do, but whatever. …But here are a few links you should check out…
My school does more sustainablity stuff than I was aware of… I sat in and teched a show for some [...]

I don’t know how many times I’ve told people that elephants are awesome, and just as smart as dolphins, humans and apes, but no one ever believed me. I’m not even kidding. Ask Alon, Sam or Kate and they’ll all tell you that for at least 2 years I’ve been saying that elephants are hella [...]

In 1992 countries met at the Earth Summit
to crack a strategy for dealing with the environment. There was one issue that
was the ‘key’ issue which was not on the agenda at all… population growth. It
was left off because the Vatican and various Muslim countries didn’t want it on the agenda.
There is controversy to what extent [...]

When we talk of using animals for biomedical research there
are two ground cases as to why it is morally unacceptable; first, it wrongly
violates the rights of animals and second because it wrongly imposes on
sentient creatures avoidable suffering. In the following I will explain when
neither of these arguments is sound based on the misunderstandings of rights
and [...]