Why is it that those who we would then purchase our energy from have no such
guilt about energy production?
Not exact matches
Their
energy is wasted by
guilt from unfinished, past happenings and by anxiety from fantasies
about catastrophic future dangers, which they strive to ward off by frantic planning and rehearsing.
By wagering that God is dead, we bet that the awesome and alien power of an infinitely distant and wholly other is finally created by our own
guilt and resentment, by our refusal of the life and
energy about and within us.
I don't believe the emotions felt by mothers who don't breastfeed or who wean early are as simple as «
guilt»: when we really examine mothers» feelings
about things gone wrong, it is rarely
guilt that they are expressing, especially
about not breastfeeding or not breastfeeding as long or as completely as they would have liked to: well informed mothers who reach for the bottle after a struggle with breastfeeding know they have done the best they could with the resources they had at the time (health,
energy, knowledge, support)-- these mothers may feel deeply sad and disappointed, they may be grieving, but
guilt isn't an appropriate label for these overwhelming feelings of loss for themselves and their babies.
When these feelings of sadness, change in concentration,
guilt, decreased
energy, hopelessness and appetite changes extend beyond two weeks after birth, doctors worry
about postpartum depression.
Feelings of despair / hopelessness Crying, tearfulness Anger & irritability Sleep disturbances (too much / little) Loss of
energy & interest Physical symptoms (clumsiness, slowed speech, etc.) Suicidal thoughts Frightening thoughts
about self or baby or other family members Weight loss or gain Feelings of
guilt, shame, inadequacy Hypochondria; excessive worries Mania (part of bipolar disorders)
Sure, it takes a little more effort to be super-green, but if you feel guilty
about tossing out bags and bags of garbage and driving a gas - guzzling SUV, maybe you should change your life - style to soothe that
guilt rather than convince yourself that it is OK to continue to pollute and trash the planet as long as you use
energy efficient bulbs.
If we women weren't talking to each other
about guilt and counting calories and the gym and dieting, what would we spend that intellectual
energy on?
Why worry
about his
guilt over the son of Krypton when Steppenwolf — an eight - foot tall computer - generated villain who looks like the Terminator with bad teeth and is voiced by Ciaran Hinds — needs to be given a smackdown before he pulverizes the planet, something
about knocking three
energy boxes together.
That hoary old one, which should probably be called «Old Shep»
about «warmists» wanting «to preserve existing arrangements of economic advantage of developed nations by keeping people of developing nations poor and without access to low cost
energy» has been repeatedly euthanased by those of your side who insist that mitigation is a plot driven by
guilt - ridden first - world liberals who want to transfer industry and thus wealth from the first world to the third and who accordingly want to give China, India and Brazil a free pass on emissions targets.
(While it's a near antique, and clearly not an
Energy Star model, it works great and is deployed so rarely that I have no
guilt about using it.)
Don't bother trying to offset the impact though, firstly in eight years you've saved up some «credits» and secondly it's only
about assuaging
guilt (even if the carbon is real)-- better to do it with a clean conscience and instead channel your
energy into changing something in your life, however small.