Comments on: Trying to Market Poverty http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html Dispatches from a Small Business Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:19:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MJ http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html/comment-page-1#comment-10282 MJ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:34:23 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html #comment-10282 <p>"By the way, does jetting from city to city across the country to sell his book make him a sustainability expert?"</p> <p>Oh, don't worry about that. I'm sure he's bought carbon offsets to negate the impact of his travel.</p> “By the way, does jetting from city to city across the country to sell his book make him a sustainability expert?”

Oh, don’t worry about that. I’m sure he’s bought carbon offsets to negate the impact of his travel.

]]> By: Max Lybbert http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html/comment-page-1#comment-10281 Max Lybbert Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:44:13 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html #comment-10281 <p>/* A few years ago, a college professor was explaining the concept of 'sustainability' to a business class. She said that a given region, like the Pacific Northwest, should be capable of producing all goods and services that the regional market needs, without the need to import goods from far away lands (like oranges from Florida and oil from Venezuela). I asked her about the market for diamonds. We don't have any diamond mines in the Pacific Northwest. She said that the market could 'adapt' and use synthetically produced diamonds or cubic zirconium.<br /> */</p> <p>Good call! Thinking about your comment some I realized there's an energy crisis in the making. Only oil-rich states would be allowed any gasoline, and only if they also footed the bill for their own refineries. Under such a brain-dead plan, Texas would have oil to spare while California would have to resort to horse and buggies.</p> <p>But the best part (to me) is that corn ethanol would only be available in Nebraska, and biodiesel would be hard to come by. What's not to like about that?</p> /* A few years ago, a college professor was explaining the concept of ’sustainability’ to a business class. She said that a given region, like the Pacific Northwest, should be capable of producing all goods and services that the regional market needs, without the need to import goods from far away lands (like oranges from Florida and oil from Venezuela). I asked her about the market for diamonds. We don’t have any diamond mines in the Pacific Northwest. She said that the market could ‘adapt’ and use synthetically produced diamonds or cubic zirconium.
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Good call! Thinking about your comment some I realized there’s an energy crisis in the making. Only oil-rich states would be allowed any gasoline, and only if they also footed the bill for their own refineries. Under such a brain-dead plan, Texas would have oil to spare while California would have to resort to horse and buggies.

But the best part (to me) is that corn ethanol would only be available in Nebraska, and biodiesel would be hard to come by. What’s not to like about that?

]]> By: Marcus http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html/comment-page-1#comment-10280 Marcus Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:30:20 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html #comment-10280 <p><i>"If he were to put his money where his mouth is, through out the country he would have local publishers print his book and sell it in their respective the local economies."</i></p> <p>Actually, thinking about this, isn't this what national newspapers do?<br /> </p> “If he were to put his money where his mouth is, through out the country he would have local publishers print his book and sell it in their respective the local economies.”

Actually, thinking about this, isn’t this what national newspapers do?

]]> By: ruralcounsel http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html/comment-page-1#comment-10279 ruralcounsel Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:36:49 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html #comment-10279 <p>Here in Vermont, he's a self-styled "expert on climate change" too. Kind of a pompous blowhard who conveniently thinks he knows what's best for every one else. Never have seen his actual credentials or CV; he doesn't emphasize them ... probably an english major.</p> <p>One wonders not only about his dedication to his own principles when marketing his book, but in other aspects of his life ... wanna bet he writes his stuff on a computer manufactured predominantly overseas? Drives a fancy hybrid car (clearly not made in Vermont!).</p> <p>Middlebury College has made a big deal about its "carbon footprint" ... which you have to wonder about when you see all the expensive luxery SUV's and such in the student and faculty parking lots, and all the fancy new buildings going up on campus (made with imported Italian marble when some of America's finest marble quarries are in the state of Vermont!) </p> <p>Environmentalists in the sense of Al Gore ... "do as I say, not as I do".<br /> </p> Here in Vermont, he’s a self-styled “expert on climate change” too. Kind of a pompous blowhard who conveniently thinks he knows what’s best for every one else. Never have seen his actual credentials or CV; he doesn’t emphasize them … probably an english major.

One wonders not only about his dedication to his own principles when marketing his book, but in other aspects of his life … wanna bet he writes his stuff on a computer manufactured predominantly overseas? Drives a fancy hybrid car (clearly not made in Vermont!).

Middlebury College has made a big deal about its “carbon footprint” … which you have to wonder about when you see all the expensive luxery SUV’s and such in the student and faculty parking lots, and all the fancy new buildings going up on campus (made with imported Italian marble when some of America’s finest marble quarries are in the state of Vermont!)

Environmentalists in the sense of Al Gore … “do as I say, not as I do”.

]]> By: Damon Gentry http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html/comment-page-1#comment-10278 Damon Gentry Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:39:29 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html #comment-10278 <p>A few years ago, a college professor was explaining the concept of 'sustainability' to a business class. She said that a given region, like the Pacific Northwest, should be capable of producing all goods and services that the regional market needs, without the need to import goods from far away lands (like oranges from Florida and oil from Venezuela). I asked her about the market for diamonds. We don't have any diamond mines in the Pacific Northwest. She said that the market could 'adapt' and use synthetically produced diamonds or cubic zirconium. </p> <p>In other words, let's have a centrally planned economy. Only this time, it will be much better than the last big one we had because we have a new word for it: sustainability.</p> A few years ago, a college professor was explaining the concept of ’sustainability’ to a business class. She said that a given region, like the Pacific Northwest, should be capable of producing all goods and services that the regional market needs, without the need to import goods from far away lands (like oranges from Florida and oil from Venezuela). I asked her about the market for diamonds. We don’t have any diamond mines in the Pacific Northwest. She said that the market could ‘adapt’ and use synthetically produced diamonds or cubic zirconium.

In other words, let’s have a centrally planned economy. Only this time, it will be much better than the last big one we had because we have a new word for it: sustainability.

]]> By: Max Lybbert http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html/comment-page-1#comment-10277 Max Lybbert Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:28:58 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html #comment-10277 <p>Sustainable also means "static." It's a very bad idea. If your neighborhood doesn't allow microchip factories, does that mean nobody is allowed to own a computer? Or is it OK to ship in Japanese parts and put things together?</p> <p>What about car factories? What about electricity? Do the people buying this book really want a coal fired plant in their backyard? Next to the landfill for only local trash?</p> <p>People really need to think things through before they start opening their mouths.</p> Sustainable also means “static.” It’s a very bad idea. If your neighborhood doesn’t allow microchip factories, does that mean nobody is allowed to own a computer? Or is it OK to ship in Japanese parts and put things together?

What about car factories? What about electricity? Do the people buying this book really want a coal fired plant in their backyard? Next to the landfill for only local trash?

People really need to think things through before they start opening their mouths.

]]> By: Marcus http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html/comment-page-1#comment-10276 Marcus Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:59:21 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html #comment-10276 <p>I agree with you on this one. He is marketing poverty.</p> <p>If he were to put his money where his mouth is, through out the country he would have local publishers print his book and sell it in their respective the local economies.</p> <p>There's a reason he's not done so. It would be enormously inefficient.<br /> </p> I agree with you on this one. He is marketing poverty.

If he were to put his money where his mouth is, through out the country he would have local publishers print his book and sell it in their respective the local economies.

There’s a reason he’s not done so. It would be enormously inefficient.

]]> By: Common Reader http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html/comment-page-1#comment-10275 Common Reader Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:12:16 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html #comment-10275 <p>One of the reasons soccer moms like it is it's a way to get around feminist insistence that they stick their kids in daycares and commute to an office park every day, without being explicitly anti-feminist. </p> One of the reasons soccer moms like it is it’s a way to get around feminist insistence that they stick their kids in daycares and commute to an office park every day, without being explicitly anti-feminist.

]]> By: John Moore http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html/comment-page-1#comment-10274 John Moore Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:46:44 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html #comment-10274 <p>Yes, sustainability tends to mean poorer.</p> <p>Or, more accurately, it means putting a non-economic driver into economic decisions.</p> <p>Linking this stuff to global warming is, of course, the modern fad. Nothing like backing up your silly economic theories with junk science.</p> Yes, sustainability tends to mean poorer.

Or, more accurately, it means putting a non-economic driver into economic decisions.

Linking this stuff to global warming is, of course, the modern fad. Nothing like backing up your silly economic theories with junk science.

]]> By: Greg Decker http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html/comment-page-1#comment-10273 Greg Decker Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:53:10 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/trying-to-marke.html #comment-10273 <p>He's a link to some of McKibbin's colleagues at Middlebury who have a thing or two to say about his climate change theories. Enjoy. </p> <p>http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html</p> He’s a link to some of McKibbin’s colleagues at Middlebury who have a thing or two to say about his climate change theories. Enjoy.

http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html

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