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Replacing all meat and poultry with dairy and eggs, as tends to be the case in Western vegetarian diets, can produce more carbon emissions than a largely plant-based diet that includes poultry, Raychel Santo, a food-and-climate-research associate at the World Resources Institute,
If Not Vegan, or Vegetarian, How About Chickentarian?
Eve Andrews
We are addicted to one another,” Jacobs argued, “to the affirmation of our value—our very being—that comes from other human beings. We are addicted to being validated by our peers.”
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
The Convivial Society
Central heating illustrates the device paradigm by the manner in which it secures the technological availability of warmth. It conceals the machinery, the means we might say, while perfecting what Borgmann calls the commodity, the end. Commodity is Borgmann’s word for “what a device is there for,” it is the end that the means are intended to secure. The device paradigm, remember, is a pattern that Borgmann sees unfolding across the modern technological spectrum.
Why a Life Made Easier by Technology May Not Necessarily Be Happier
thefrailestthing.com
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