Zodium posted:

that's basically just the mtw rhizzone tweet in ngo language.

quote:

George Kent is Professor Emeritus with the University of Hawai’i. He was a professor in the Department of Political Science from 1970 until his retirement at the end of 2010.

He currently teaches online as a part-time faculty member with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia and also with the Transformative Social Change concentration at Saybrook University in San Francisco.

Professor Kent’s approach centers on finding remedies for social problems, especially finding ways to strengthen the weak in the face of the strong. He works on human rights, international relations, peace, development, and environmental issues, with a special focus on nutrition and children. His books include

The Political Economy of Hunger: The Silent Holocaust. New York: Praeger, 1984;
The Politics of Children’s Survival. New York: Praeger, 1991;
Children in the International Political Economy. New York: Macmillan/St. Martin’s, 1995;
Freedom from Want:The Human Right to Adequate Food. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005;
(editor) Global Obligations for the Right to Food. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008;
Ending Hunger Worldwide. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers, 2011.
Regulating Infant Formula. Amarillo, Texas: Hale Publishing, 2011.

Professor Kent is Co-Convener of the Commission on International Human Rights of the International Peace Research Association. He has worked as a consultant with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and several civil society organizations. He is part of the Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics, and Human Rights of the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition. He is on the Governing Board of the Hawai’i Food Policy Council, which he helped to start in November 2010 (http://www.hawaiifoodpolicycouncil.org/).

mdemone posted:

bullets come down with the same velocity they left the ground with. you have failed my class for the last time.

Smug Mug posted:

you’ve failed my class, actually.

Psycho Society posted:

The UN would never publish satire, this just a limited hangout by another blue helmet ghoul.

https://hawaii.academia.edu/GeorgeKent

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/0ddette/status/1544538854237036544

expect more and more of this as we get further along The Great Reset

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Psychology Today, April 2021: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/202108/beyond-happiness-why-psychologically-rich-life-is-good-life?amp

Psychology Today, May 2021: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/between-cultures/202205/how-live-psychologically-rich-life?amp

Scientific American, August 2020: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-defense-of-the-psychologically-rich-life/?amp=true

And so on: medium, college presses, Science Alert, QZ, etc

Oishi and Westgate, 2021: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-74886-001
Oishi and Besser, 2020: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.1080/09515089.2020.1778662?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Dalen and Thorbjørnsen, 2022: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.785224/full

World Economic Forum, 2021: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/research-good-life-happy-meaningful/

Zodium posted:

i love to justify suffering as an individual moral failing, that's why i became a behavioral scientist actually

Zodium posted:

i love to justify suffering as an individual moral failing, that's why i became a behavioral scientist actually

Shear Modulus posted:

zoomer sirhan sirhan

Shear Modulus posted:

zoomer sirhan sirhan

Zodium posted:

lmfao goddamn

i love to justify suffering as an individual moral failing, that's why i became a behavioral scientist actually

Torpor posted:

Georgia guidestones got bombed.


I’ve got mixed feelings about someone knocking down a monument to eugenics and what appears to be ethno-nationalist separatism, on the one hand why, and on the other why not?

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/roun_sa_ville/status/1544703310229274626

Mr. Lobe posted:

It was probably done by a person with even worse politics though

Riot Bimbo posted:

bob crimes

The_Rob posted:

cool thread not weird at all.

https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1544722973504020484?s=21&t=H6ueMPqG_tGx5wYjx2OEEw

Delta-Wye posted:

papa horny michael posted:

oh he'll have to be 35

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643551/Global-over-population-is-the-real-issue.html posted:

The world’s population is now 6.7 billion, roughly double what it was when I was born. If I live to be in my mid-eighties, then it will have trebled in my lifetime.

The UN last year revised its forecasts upwards, predicting that there will be 9.2 billion people by 2050, and I simply cannot understand why no one discusses this impending calamity, and why no world statesmen have the guts to treat the issue with the seriousness it deserves.

How the hell can we witter on about tackling global warming, and reducing consumption, when we are continuing to add so relentlessly to the number of consumers? The answer is politics, and political cowardice.

There was a time, in the 1960s and 1970s, when people such as my father, Stanley, were becoming interested in demography, and the UN would hold giant conferences on the subject, and it was perfectly respectable to talk about saving the planet by reducing the growth in the number of human beings.

But over the years, the argument changed, and certain words became taboo, and certain concepts became forbidden, and we have reached the stage where the very discussion of overall human fertility – global motherhood – has become more or less banned.

We seem to have given up on population control, and all sorts of explanations are offered for the surrender. Some say Indira Gandhi gave it all a bad name, by her demented plan to sterilise Indian men with the lure of a transistor radio.

Some attribute our complacency to the Green Revolution, which seemed to prove Malthus wrong. It became the received wisdom that the world’s population could rise to umpteen billions, as mankind learnt to make several ears of corn grow where one had grown before.

And then, in recent years, the idea of global population control has been more or less stifled by a pincer movement from the Right and the Left. American Right-wingers disapprove of anything that sounds like birth control, and so George W. Bush withholds the tiny contribution America makes to the UN Fund for Population Activities, regardless of the impact on the health of women in developing countries.

As for the Left, they dislike suggestions of population control because they seem to smack of colonialism and imperialism and telling the Third World what to do; and so we have reached the absurd position in which humanity bleats about the destruction of the environment, and yet there is not a peep in any communiqué from any summit of the EU, G8 or UN about the population growth that is causing that destruction.

Torpor posted:

Georgia guidestones got bombed.


I’ve got mixed feelings about someone knocking down a some rocks in the middle of nowhere Georgia that were built by a eugenicist and ethno-nationalist separatist, on the one hand why, and on the other why not?

edit: clarify, the only thing dumber than the monument is that it attracts the craziest kind of crazies , the type of crazy that wouldn’t like me.