I’m reading the book "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think" by George Lakoff. The basic thesis is that liberals and conservatives have different conceptions of the ideal government because they have different conceptions of the ideal family. Conservatives emphasize discipline and respect for authority, while liberals emphasize a nurturing environment and open dialogue with authority.
My question is: how much do you agree with the thesis, and how much do you think the follow statement describes your ideal family?
"This model posits a traditional nuclear family, with the father having primary responsibility for supporting and protecting the family as well as the authority to set overall policy, to set strict rules for the behavior of children, and to enforce the rules. The mother has the day-to-day responsibility for the care of the house, raising the children, and upholding the father’s authority. Children must respect and obey the parents; by doing so they build character, that is, self-discipline and self-reliance. Love and nurturance are, of course, a vital part of family life but can never outweigh parental authority, which is itself an expression of love and nurturance — tough love. Self-discipline, self-reliance, and respect for lefitimate authority are the crucial things that children must learn. Once children are mature, they are on their own and must depend on their acquired self-discipline to survive. Their self-reliance gives them authority over their own destinies, and parents are not to meddle in their lives."
** If you’re interested in what Lakoff had to say about liberals, I posted a similar question for them.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApNaS1UKtQQSDmfp1z7rMScjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20090205171916AABO6jC
Perhaps you believe what Al Gore told a group of teens and preteens. He said not to listen to everything their parents tell them because their ideas are outdated. Of course, he was speaking about his global warming issue.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2178130/posts
Don’t listen to your parents because you can just go get an abortion without even telling them. Have the teachers tell the students who their parents really should vote for.
Honor thy Father and thy Mother. Any child who goes his/her own way without respect for authority will have some very difficult lessons to learn in life when they reach adulthood. You can call that Republican if you want. I just call it common sense. Children have a lovely but warped view of real life. They don’t really get it until they are responsible for others and they should be equiped to meet that challenge when it happens.
Even siblings can be very different from each other while having the very same upbringing but all children should be provided the basics that will help a child grow into someone people can count on.
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one place where they operate?
do they charge the public to do what they do?
how are they helping the environment?
thanks
xo
The EPA enforces environmental laws in the US. They regulate waste streams, waste generators, waste haulers, and waste disposal sites. Anytime you see a trash truck, a power plant, or a factory, they must have a registration with the EPA. EPA regulations even extend to the manufacturing of your car.
They do not directly charge the public for what they do, as a government agency they operate off of tax money so the public indirectly pays for their operations. They also have the power to levy fines for violations.
How long do non domesticated wild cats in their natural environment spend hunting and eating their food in a day?
How many hours of % of their day?
Cheers..
the wild animals(any carnivore) wil not hunt everyday,unless it has a family to feed for!…..wild cats hunt when they r hungry(so with the other animals)or if they get an easy prey,they hunt and store it on tree tops,away form potential thieves! after a hunt they stuff themselves and stack the kill in a hiding place for later use…..this is how a cat,leopard,tiger does!…they mostly spend the time sleepin and lazying around……they dont spend much time to hunt,but patience is the key for every kill,they can sit in a place for a long time without moving…..they hunt any time of the day,they luk of for potential prey at every possible place(water hole,burrows,treetops)….ther r on the lukout everytime…..but thier hunting(kills) percentage is just 40-45%….so out of 100 attempts they succeed only 45 times……
Government fatcats always are concerned about big business but almost always seem to forget there are more than just corporations out there. Why are we paying taxes on the food we eat, while the oilsands in Alberta, and other large oil companies are making tons of cash and have endless exemptions from taxes. What is stopping the government of Canada from taxing the oil companies for their abuse of a natural resources, and use it to fund new initiatives and research into technologies for a greener and brighter tomorrow.
You assertions that they do not take care of the environment would have held some water 30 yrs ago but not today. Stop drinking the kool aid or trying to decieve people into supporting your anti business agenda
i don’t know what subjects to pick for enviromental studies….hey can you also please list a few good colleges for enviromental studies….thanks alot 
Biology, forestry, geology and environmental psychology these types of courses you can look at a sample degree sheet. I attached a sample curriculum from a reputable college that offers the degree, I also attached another school you may be interested in ESF in NY state. Usually these science courses (required for the Environmental Studies Degree) don’t require a lab and the extensive math that an Environmental Science major would require. Good luck!
improving the global environment a more important foreign-policy goal than combating world hunger.
In one recent survey in Australia, environmental concern came in as absolutely the most important priority for the leaders of the world, before eliminating poverty or dealing with terrorism, human-rights issues, and HIV/AIDS. In another survey, the United States, China, South Korea, and Australia found improving the global environment a more important foreign-policy goal than combating world hunger. South Korea put it first on its list of the top sixteen global threats.
Why are we so singularly focused on climate change when there are many other areas where the need is also great and we could do so much more with our effort?
Al Gore gives us two reasons. First, it is a planetary emergency: “At stake is the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth.” Yet this turns out to be far from the truth. As we saw above, this is not what the science is telling us for the temperature rise over the coming century. If anything, the science tells us that fewer people will die with moderately more heat. Of course, Gore has several other arguments, which we will also address below.
Gore’s second reason is probably more telling and closer to the truth. He tells us how global warming can give meaning to our lives.
The climate crisis also offers us the chance to experience what very few generations in history have had the privilege of knowing: a generational mission; the exhilaration of a compelling moral purpose; a shared and unifying cause; the thrill of being forced by circumstances to put aside the pettiness and conflict that so often stifle the restless human need for transcendence; the opportunity to rise. . . . When we rise, we will experience an epiphany as we discover that this crisis is not really about politics at all. It is a moral and spiritual challenge.
He explains how global warming can give us a moral imperative, like the one Lincoln had for fighting slavery or Roosevelt had against fascism or Johnson had for the rights of minorities.
It seems unrealistic to expect that climate change will give us such singularity of purpose. If anything, the ten-year drawn-out battles around the relatively minor restrictions of Kyoto show us that anything costing individual nations trillions of dollars will be strongly contested and lead to strife rather than serenity.
But perhaps more important, should we go for the exhilaration of a generational mission just because it makes us feel good? Should it not actually be because we are doing the best our generation can do? And this, of course, brings us right back to asking whether there are greater opportunities for us to engage first.
To be fair, Gore does point out that there are many other generational missions:
The understanding we will gain [from tackling climate change] will give us the moral capacity to take on other related challenges that are also desperately in need of being redefined as moral imperatives with practical solutions: HIV/AIDS and other pandemics that are ravaging so many; global poverty; the ongoing redistribution of wealth globally from the poor to the wealthy; the ongoing genocide in Darfur; the ongoing famine in Niger and elsewhere; chronic civil wars; the destruction of ocean fisheries; families that don’t function; communities that don’t commune; the erosion of democracy in America; and the refeudalization of the public forum.
But as the list goes on, it becomes clear that it is in need of realistic prioritization. Gore essentially tells us we should fix all things from climate change to democracy. And it would be beautiful if we could do so. But so far, we haven’t addressed any of these very well. Perhaps it would be wise to start thinking about which we should do first.
Gore tells us that we need to hear the voices of the future speaking to us now. We have to imagine them asking: What were you thinking? Didn’t you care about our future? He is absolutely right.
Do we want future generations to say that we have spent trillions of dollars and perhaps done a little good for rich people in a hundred years? Or do we want future generations to thank us for giving billions of poor people a new beginning and a better life, which will enable them to better deal with whatever challenges the future holds?
In other words, do we just want to feel good, or do we actually want to do good?
Hmmm, well here goes my unpopular answer:
Ignore world hunger and genocide because the more people die, the less impact on the environment those people will have.
The most important thing an environmentalist can do with their life is to NOT procreate. There are enough peopl on this damn planet.
Please give a little detail on its role and implementation also.
(a) environment includes water, air and land and the inter-relationship which exists among and between water, air and land, and human beings, other living creatures, plants, micro-organism and property;
(b) environmental pollutant means any solid, liquid or gaseous substance present in such concentration as may be, or tend to be, injurious to environment;
(c) environmental pollution means the presence in the environment of any environmental pollutant;
(d) handling, in relation to any substance, means the manufacture, processing, treatment, package, storage, transportation, use, collection, destruction, conversion, offering for sale, transfer or the like of such substance;
(e) hazardous substance means any substance or preparation which, by reason of its chemical or physico-chemical properties or handling, is liable to cause harm to human beings, other living creatures, plants, micro-organism property or the environment;
(f) occupier, in relation to any factory or premises, means a person who has control over the affairs of the factory or the premises and includes, in relation to any substance, the person in possession of the substance;
This Act is an umbrella legislation designed to provide a framework for the co-ordination of central and state authorities established under the Water (Prevention and Control) Act, 1974 and Air (Prevention and Control) Act, 1981. Under this Act, the central government is empowered to take measures necessary to protect and improve the quality of the environment by setting standards for emissions and discharges; regulating the location of industries; management of hazardous wastes, and protection of public health and welfare
Suppose you are a news reporter who can shrink down in size and be protected from changes in the environment with a special suit. You are assigned to accompany a bite of food as it travels down the digestive system. Report your findings in a dramatic but accurate way. Include a catchy headline
Headline:
Reporter Jonah Takes Whale Of A Ride
I am doing a school art project on what is hurting our society. I’ve decided to do puppy mills. Where are puppy mills usually located in like the forest, desert, or what environment. Thank you.
There are a lot of them in New York, the Amish are famous for milling pups in rural New York. I remember a puppy mill being on the cover of the Time Life magazine years ago. They are not uncommon and can be found even in urban area, right in the heart of any city. I’ve seen a few in NC, all of those where in rural area’s. Check with the magazine’s, run a search in there archives. Pre pair your self because the pictures are graphic and horrifying. Also look up the Humane Society web site they will have some great info for you there. Hope you get an A.
I’m trying to write a fictional novel about humans destroying the environment but I don’t know a lot about it… What is a good book that talks about today’s environmental issues? Topics such as pollution, destruction of habitats, the atmosphere, and global warming are key to what I’m doing.
Please, I’m not looking for science textbooks. I just need to know basic things about the environment and a short book would do fine. Thanks.
Elizabeth Kolbert is my greatest influence on global warming and the environment. Her article is long but very informative. http://www.wesjones.com/climate1.htm This was an artical what was put in New Yorker magazine.
A short but good article you can also read:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050630_oceans_acid.html
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-dMWGRys6aa_XpBRW8maZPnay52Qj_6U-?cq=1&p=12 I have written a paper on this little over a year ago which is a mere summary of all of the info available in the sources I provide.