http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/chinas-latest-environmental-ills-oil-spills-and-copper-mines/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Tue, 22 May 2012 06:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/chinas-latest-environmental-ills-oil-spills-and-copper-mines/comment-page-1/#comment-221924 scott Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:32:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17741#comment-221924 Consumers fuel much of this, in our mad quest packing into shopping centers every week looking for cheap things to buy to fill our empty voids due to our cultureless society based on distractions and endless new trends. The only way out of it is a slow reprogramming of the population to reuse and not consume so much and find things to do that do not involve a Saturday at the mall or Wal-Mart. I just (with a fight) plucked my overweight, lazy, 13 year old niece from a slothy summer in Houston - she was happy sitting, eating, shopping and texting all summer and I put her in a month long camp of activities and environmental teachings in the mountains. No cell phones, no email, no FB, just sailing, hiking, swimming, nature studies, etc. There should be a tax (on chinese imports) to help send all kids to camps like this. Consumers fuel much of this, in our mad quest packing into shopping centers every week looking for cheap things to buy to fill our empty voids due to our cultureless society based on distractions and endless new trends. The only way out of it is a slow reprogramming of the population to reuse and not consume so much and find things to do that do not involve a Saturday at the mall or Wal-Mart. I just (with a fight) plucked my overweight, lazy, 13 year old niece from a slothy summer in Houston – she was happy sitting, eating, shopping and texting all summer and I put her in a month long camp of activities and environmental teachings in the mountains. No cell phones, no email, no FB, just sailing, hiking, swimming, nature studies, etc. There should be a tax (on chinese imports) to help send all kids to camps like this.

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