'Shifting baselines'

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'Shifting baselines'

Postby Rigorous Intuition » Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:44 pm

"The truth about ocean decline"<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://sbflixcontest.org/indexHome.php">Shiftingbaselines.org</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><br>Shifting Baselines refers to a lowering of standards,<br>not just in the oceans but everywhere around us.<br><br>"We're forgetting how nature used to look".</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rigorousintuition>Rigorous Intuition</A> at: 9/14/06 6:45 pm<br></i>
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Re: 'Shifting baselines'

Postby chiggerbit » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:02 pm

Shifting baselines would seem to include nutrition guidelines. It seems that we have to eat a lot more fruits and veggies in order to maintain the same health level of nutrients than we did thirty years ago. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: 'Shifting baselines'

Postby chiggerbit » Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:28 pm

Shifting fertility baselines?<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/06/266717.shtml">portland.indymedia.org/en...6717.shtml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: 'Shifting baselines'

Postby chiggerbit » Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:35 pm

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/odyssey/20030822_log_transcript.html">www.pbs.org/odyssey/odyss...cript.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Something is happening to the reproductive system of the males of many species. It's happening to male birds of prey around the Great Lakes and male alligators in Florida. To male harbor seals in the Netherlands and male polar bears in the Arctic. And to boys and men throughout the industrialized world. ......"<br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 9/14/06 9:36 pm<br></i>
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Re: 'Shifting baselines'

Postby Seamus OBlimey » Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:15 am

Interesting site, shame I can't watch most of their flix (I'm still using Win98 and google vids no longer play for me, so it's probably not their fault). Shame too that they concentrate on the seas, though happily the contest is open to interpetation. <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.sas.org.uk/"><br><br>Surfers Against Sewage</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> are one of the most newsworthy eco groups in the UK, yet they're the most single issue, self interested and hedonistic of those concerned with such issues. This looks like a US version.<br><br>Interesting too that it's based in Hollywood and none of the (all unknown to me)<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://sbflixcontest.org/celeb.html">Celebrity Judges</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> have any eco credentials on their bios.<br><br>Having said that, if I could find some public domain footage and sound I might have a go. How about you?<br><br>Chigger, it's not just boys... <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4530743.stm">In the western world there is much evidence children are reaching puberty at younger and younger ages - some girls at the age of seven.</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: 'Shifting baselines'

Postby postrchild » Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:20 am

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Chigger, it's not just boys... In the western world there is much evidence children are reaching puberty at younger and younger ages - some girls at the age of seven.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Well that little bit of sunshine is due to all the hormones in the chicken and the beef.....Hello Organics. I have noticed that 12 yr old girls dont look like the 12 yr old girls I grew up with......thats why you have them successfully passing themselves off as 18 and 19 and getting into clubs, where they are in turn preyed upon....all in the plan my friends, all in the plan. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: 'Shifting baselines'

Postby Seamus OBlimey » Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:36 pm

I think we can all find endless examples of this but do we really wannabe the new reactionaries?<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,,1872960,00.html">Officer who led De Menezes operation sees no reason not to go for promotion</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://education.guardian.co.uk/ofsted/story/0,,1873281,00.html">Fewer children 'receive substandard care'</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/5348964.stm">Being skint on the city streets</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/5349116.stm">Man jailed for raping woman, 82</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>Shouldn't they be offering prizes for new ideas rather than asking for help to promote their own? <p></p><i></i>
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