Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "PBS Terra" channel.

  1. Increased consumption is not just what economists want, it's what most individuals want. Even if you say you don't want more clothes, you very like would want better/more fashionable clothes. Even if you say you only need one smart phone, you very likely want to upgrade to a newer model every now and then. We always want to better our lives, and if we have the money, that means more consumption.
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  2. This video is not about how Phoenix "is Innovating to Survive", but about all the problems they have right now. Maybe they should have waited 10 years before using that title.
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  3. The problem is that whether you pay for your children or the community pays for them, the fact is that raising a child is many times more expensive in an advanced, modern society than in a poor, rural society. As our society advances, the cost of raising children will invariably become more expensive. In theory it's possible to raise a child cheaply if you primarily feed them mashed potatoes, make them wear only hand-me-downs, and home school them, but most people feel this is not the best way to ensure a good future for a child.
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  4. Hearing the indigenous explanation of the origin of the rock is a powerful reminder that before the age of enlightenment and the advent of scientific enquiry, we were all just incredibly ignorant. We'd see something we couldn't immediately explain and then we'd just conjure up some incredible story about it. Hopefully, we will forever leave this stupidity behind us.
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  5. This was primarily advocacy, not so much educational. I would prefer more education, more digging into the data, more real-world examples of what is being done, and what is not being done. Examples of successes and failures, examples that we can all learn from. To just tell us (the viewer) that we need to do more may be true, but it leaves us unfulfilled because we don't learn how to do it. Actually, I will suggest an old favorite video of mine by John Liu: https://youtu.be/8QUSIJ80n50?si=ESWvwGbFknibSDVV
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  6.  @JohannaConlon  I'm from Europe, but I was speaking to our American friends.
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  7.  @nickiemcnichols5397  How is that related to anything I said?
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