Comments on: Cut Work Hours To Help Stop Global Warming! http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/12/29/cut-work-hours-to-help-stop-global-warming/ Feminist, anti-racist, pro-fat, plus whatever else we feel like talking about. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:34:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Julie, Herder of Cats http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/12/29/cut-work-hours-to-help-stop-global-warming/#comment-291280 Julie, Herder of Cats Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:47:01 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/12/29/cut-work-hours-to-help-stop-global-warming/#comment-291280 Seven additional weeks of vacation? What ever would I do with myself?!? I'm not sure that shorter working schedules are in the cards for this country -- the population is shifting towards older workers and we're facing a potential labor shortage as the boomers all retire. One thing that would shorten the work week and reduce carbon is putting an end to the insanity that is rush hour. Things like light rail, better mass transit and doing more to promote car pooling would all help reduce the hour long commutes many people have each way, each day. Two hours in a car each day is 500 hours a year, or the equivalent of 3 MONTHS of work, sitting in a car, staring at someone else's bumper. Seven additional weeks of vacation? What ever would I do with myself?!?

I’m not sure that shorter working schedules are in the cards for this country — the population is shifting towards older workers and we’re facing a potential labor shortage as the boomers all retire.

One thing that would shorten the work week and reduce carbon is putting an end to the insanity that is rush hour. Things like light rail, better mass transit and doing more to promote car pooling would all help reduce the hour long commutes many people have each way, each day. Two hours in a car each day is 500 hours a year, or the equivalent of 3 MONTHS of work, sitting in a car, staring at someone else’s bumper.

]]> By: vegankid » Blog Archive » Radical Progressive Carnival #8 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/12/29/cut-work-hours-to-help-stop-global-warming/#comment-223441 vegankid » Blog Archive » Radical Progressive Carnival #8 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:04:40 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/12/29/cut-work-hours-to-help-stop-global-warming/#comment-223441 [...] Environment Amp introduces us to a paper from a liberal think tank with some suggestions that i’m certainly fond of. The paper suggests that if those of us in the US reduce our work hours, we would see significant environmental benefits. This theory isn’t much of a surprise. It goes along with the reasoning that its not what can we do to reverse the effects of global climate change, but what can we stop doing. [...] [...] Environment Amp introduces us to a paper from a liberal think tank with some suggestions that i’m certainly fond of. The paper suggests that if those of us in the US reduce our work hours, we would see significant environmental benefits. This theory isn’t much of a surprise. It goes along with the reasoning that its not what can we do to reverse the effects of global climate change, but what can we stop doing. [...]

]]> By: Robert http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/12/29/cut-work-hours-to-help-stop-global-warming/#comment-222233 Robert Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:55:38 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/12/29/cut-work-hours-to-help-stop-global-warming/#comment-222233 <i>don’t you have a crate full of puppies to shove through a meatgrinder or something?</i> I have people to do that for me. But of course I do a basketfull every quarter, to make sure I stay in touch with things on the floor. You have to stay engaged or your team gets unfocused. don’t you have a crate full of puppies to shove through a meatgrinder or something?

I have people to do that for me.

But of course I do a basketfull every quarter, to make sure I stay in touch with things on the floor. You have to stay engaged or your team gets unfocused.

]]> By: karpad http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/12/29/cut-work-hours-to-help-stop-global-warming/#comment-222224 karpad Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:45:34 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/12/29/cut-work-hours-to-help-stop-global-warming/#comment-222224 <i>So in other words, the conservative argument that anti-global-warming activism is secretly about shrinking the American economy and making us all poorer are exactly on target.</i> don't you have a crate full of puppies to shove through a meatgrinder or something? or are only asshole execs allowed a 4 day workweek, and all the stiffs working janitorial should be GLAD they have to work 80 hours a week to break even. So in other words, the conservative argument that anti-global-warming activism is secretly about shrinking the American economy and making us all poorer are exactly on target.

don’t you have a crate full of puppies to shove through a meatgrinder or something? or are only asshole execs allowed a 4 day workweek, and all the stiffs working janitorial should be GLAD they have to work 80 hours a week to break even.

]]> By: Robert http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/12/29/cut-work-hours-to-help-stop-global-warming/#comment-221966 Robert Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:02:54 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/12/29/cut-work-hours-to-help-stop-global-warming/#comment-221966 So in other words, the conservative argument that anti-global-warming activism is secretly about shrinking the American economy and making us all poorer are exactly on target. So in other words, the conservative argument that anti-global-warming activism is secretly about shrinking the American economy and making us all poorer are exactly on target.

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