' The truth - We will go extinct, very soon.'
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Ask yourself why aren't any of the Democrat politicians once ever talking about population being a problem when they talk about saving the environment?
They fear lozing votes, even if they know therez a problem. A big part uv the standard imij uv a viable candidate iz to hav a family.
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Well... yeah. I'm pretty sure you're never going to have an actual perpetual motion machine. You'd seriously blow my mind if you were able to manage that.
Thats wut I need! Tell me I'm krazy, it cant be dun, violates the 2nd law uv thermodynamics!
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I was thinking more along the lines of a near frictionless device that could amplify the power that we could already harness with the sun. Once you got that, we could hook some batteries up to it and have it run all the time even when the sun's not out.
Kenetic power stora....*snor*
Hoo?! Wa!? Sorry, I dozed off there.
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Meanwhile, I have planted every bug-friendly drought-tolerant native plant that I can get a hold of in my front yard. It's a huge effort, taking into account the hand-weeding required to eliminate the non-native weeds. I'm rewarded by seeing bugs and birds of all types in my yard (altho I do try to get rid of sider mites) and there are a lot of bug-droppings on my windshiled, but my neighbors think I'm nuts,
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Quote:The story "The Marching Morons" is here:
Originally posted by JO753:
I'd like to read that book, 2nd. Maybe I can get it from the library.
www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm
There is this conversation about marching in The Marching Morons:
"I see. Like the marching Chinese!"
"Who the devil are they?"
"It was a —uh— paradox of my time. Somebody figured out that if all the Chinese in the world were to line up four abreast, I think it was, and start marching past a given point, they'd never stop because of the babies that would be born and grow up before they passed the point."
The story continues on about how a clever salesman named Barlow, but it could be Trump, can trick people into marching mindlessly, but happy!, to their own deaths. I think the point of the story was that these people didn't have to die, but they did need to pay much closer attention to the fine print in the contracts they agree to sign. If they won't, they die. (I know plenty of Texans who didn't pay sufficient attention to the details of their lives and they ended up dead sooner rather than later. Even sadder is when billions all over the world are that inattentive and can't even imagine what they need to do different than they've done without thinking all their lives. "America needs to burn more coal. There is no such thing as global warming. See, it is snowing. Besides, the end of life can't be stopped so why not burn all the coal? It's cheaper than green energy!" - Trump, the super-salesman)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by JO753:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Ask yourself why aren't any of the Democrat politicians once ever talking about population being a problem when they talk about saving the environment?
They fear lozing votes, even if they know therez a problem. A big part uv the standard imij uv a viable candidate iz to hav a family.
That seems to be a cop out to me. Say what you want about AOC and some of the stupid stuff she says, but I've defended her quite a bit recently IRL because she's the only politician getting any airtime that has said a LOT of stuff that I say about the working class being screwed. She's got courage.
What you're saying is that they're just whoring themselves out for votes at the cost of the future of the human race.
NOBODY talks about this. The closest we get to it are a constant barrage of movies and TV shows about the apocalypse that seems to do nothing but serve to further desensitize us to the problem as a group.
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Well... yeah. I'm pretty sure you're never going to have an actual perpetual motion machine. You'd seriously blow my mind if you were able to manage that.
Thats wut I need! Tell me I'm krazy, it cant be dun, violates the 2nd law uv thermodynamics!
Too bad this guy doesn't have a video on perpetual motion machines. He'd say it a lot better (and meaner) than I ever could.
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I was thinking more along the lines of a near frictionless device that could amplify the power that we could already harness with the sun. Once you got that, we could hook some batteries up to it and have it run all the time even when the sun's not out.
Kenetic power stora....*snor*
Hoo?! Wa!? Sorry, I dozed off there.
http://www.7532020.com .
lol. Yeah. It's not as glamorous as this:
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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HA! He threw in a bit uv the 'Say my name' sene!
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Originally posted by second:The story "The Marching Morons" is here:
www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm
Got it! Thanks!
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David Attenborough, the mellifluous voice of the BBC’s “Planet Earth” and now an environmental conscience for the English-speaking world, put it bleakly: “If we don’t take action,” he said, “the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”
Panic might seem counterproductive, but we’re at a point where alarmism and catastrophic thinking are valuable.
Climate change is a crisis precisely because it is a looming catastrophe that demands an aggressive global response, now. To stay safely below the two degrees Celsius threshold, we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030, according to the United Nations report. Instead, they are still rising. So being alarmed is not a sign of being hysterical; when it comes to climate change, being alarmed is what the facts demand. Perhaps the only logical response.
Complacency remains a much bigger political problem than fatalism. In December, a national survey tracking Americans’ attitudes toward climate change found that 73 percent said global warming was happening, the highest percentage since the question began being asked in 2008. But a majority of Americans were unwilling to spend even $10 a month to address global warming; most drew the line at $1 a month, according to a poll conducted the previous month.
Voters in Washington, a green state in a blue-wave election, rejected even a modest carbon-tax plan. Are those people unwilling to pay that money because they think the game is over or because they don’t think it’s necessary yet?
This is a rhetorical question. If we had started global decarbonization in 2000, according to the Global Carbon Project, we would have had to cut emissions by only about 2 percent per year to stay safely under two degrees of warming. Did we fail to act then because we thought it was all over already or because we didn’t yet consider warming an urgent enough problem to take action against?
More at www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/fear-panic-climate-change-wa
rming.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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But a majority of Americans were unwilling to spend even $10 a month to address global warming; most drew the line at $1 a month, according to a poll conducted the previous month.
I think it's because nobody trusts our politicians and anyone working in government to actually use that money for what they say it's for, or to use it anywhere close to efficiently on the extremely small chance that they actually do.
Fuck them. They can spend untold billions per year on war, but they can't do this?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:They aren't willing to spend $10 more per month on the stuff they purchase, not just stuff the government purchases with their taxes. So, 6ixStringJack, you were right to believe we are all dead since Republican and Democratic voters won't make more than a token effort to save themselves. Living is too expensive. Death is cheaper. Let us all lay down and die in peace. And once you're dead, taxes are lower, too!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
But a majority of Americans were unwilling to spend even $10 a month to address global warming; most drew the line at $1 a month, according to a poll conducted the previous month.
I think it's because nobody trusts our politicians and anyone working in government to actually use that money for what they say it's for, or to use it anywhere close to efficiently on the extremely small chance that they actually do.
Fuck them. They can spend untold billions per year on war, but they can't do this?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
There are an estimated 1.1 trillion tonnes of proven coal reserves worldwide. This means that there is enough coal to last us around 150 years at current rates of production. Let's not wait 150 years; burn more coal now to hasten the end of life on Earth. www.worldcoal.org/coal/where-coal-found
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Plastic chemicals discovered inside bird eggs from remote Arctic
‘We are finding multiple plastic derived contaminants that are maternally transferred to the egg. It’s really tragic’
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/plastic-bird-eggs-pollution-
arctic-ocean-chemicals-phthalates-research-a8783061.html?utm_source=reddit.com
The extinction is already underway. Many are unaware of it, or deny it outright. It will be slow at first, but accelerate rapidly.
By the time enough people actually grasp the idea that we're going to all be dead, it will be too late to stop it.
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