Global warming and pollution... what are YOU going to do, or not do?
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UPDATED: Saturday, July 18, 2026 13:17
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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
[B]@Hero:
Pick a fight lately?
I'm a lover not a fighter.
I love being a Republican. I love putting people in jail (especially for the holidays). I love sticking it to liberals (especially young attractive female liberals). I love baseball, hotdogs, apple pie, and my jeep. I love the 3-11 Brownies. I love seeing America "expressing herself" by killing terrorists here, there, and everywhere. I love my Momma. I love winning money for my City. I love Grandma's cooking. I love Firefly. I have an unhealthy passion for tabletop wargames from the late '70s and early '80s (SPI, AH, GDW, etc). I love a big yard. I love teaching my old dog new tricks. And finally, I love you damn liberal Firefliers (best damn liberals I ever laughed at and made fun of...cept this one girl back in college who I made run crying from the room after explaining the nature of terrorism in the wake of a pre-9/11 terrorist attack).
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SigmaNunki,
I get them lots o places. Amazon sells ebooks--though they don't price them well. You can try plamone, ebooks, palm digital media, ereader, gutenberg(free) just to name a few. They are everywhere. For hard to find books, folks post bits and peices of books in threads to allow others to peice them back togther, though I don't condone that particular method. Or you can make your own with a scanner, text editor, and a free download ap. I use DropBook on my laptop to convert any text to ebook. There are libraries online with ebooks too. Of course p2p doesn't just pertain to music 
Math? Pearson Education publishers have their books available in eformat these days.
www.thatweirdgirl.com
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Originally posted by Hero:Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
[B]@Hero:
Pick a fight lately?
I'm a lover not a fighter.
H
Would it be goofy to say you're my Hero?
I like your humor/sarcasm. It's so refreshing.
You make me want to burn tires in my backyard, just because it sounds more fun than washing loads of baby diapers everyday. JK .
...oh your were being sarcastic right? Cuz if you do pluck fins off fish and throw them back...well shame on you!
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I also enjoy Hero's sarcasm. Or maybe dry wit would be a better way to phrase it. Come to think of it, maybe the British invasion has already started . Whatever it is, the opportunity to laugh is a good thing.
In regards to this thread...
I guess my main goal is to live in the world and not just on it (to borrow a phrase I heard once that I really liked). So I try to not take too much. Recycling, composting, walking/biking to campus and the store and things like that. The city we live in has it's own utility company that is pretty good at investing in wind farms. I practice catch and release but that's really cause I'm not that good a fisherman so I don't catch too many fish and also because there are so many chemical adviseries for the areas I like to fish that I haven't eaten anything out of the water in years. We buy as much of our food as possible from California growers and also try to buy American made products (but that's getting harder and harder to do these days) and try to do business only with places where the workers are organized (I grew up in a union household and old habits die hard). There's probably other stuff but the main theme is that we are pretty frugal but when we do spend money we try to keep it in the community. Oh, and try to limit the amount of plastic that we purchase. That and no fast food. Oops. I guess I got away from the global warming and pollution thing.
The areas that I really need to work on... Well, I use a LOT of paper. Whether it is from printing or buying books. I try to mainly buy used books for my pleasure reading but I still buy a lot of them. So my paper usage is a definite area of improvement. I also generate a fair number of cigarette butts each day. I always throw them away but I'm sure they will sit in a landfill for thousands of years.
It's not much but it's a start.
There are three kinds of people: fighters, lovers, and screamers.
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Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
I also enjoy Hero's sarcasm. Or maybe dry wit would be a better way to phrase it.
Now stop it. Your gonna make me blush.
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I guess my main goal is to live in the world and not just on it. So I try to not take too much. Recycling, composting, walking/biking to campus and the store and things like that.
I wish more people thought this way. Then there would be more for me. If more people recycled, walked to work, etc then I could drive guilt free, gas would be cheap, and the roads free of traffic. A perfect world. Just don't cross against the light. If its just me, I aint slowing down cause some idiot can't look both ways.
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The city we live in has it's own utility company that is pretty good at investing in wind farms.
Mine too. Only we were smart enough to avoid the "wind farm" scam (they look nice, but are not economical). Result: during the blackout every community around us was dark, but our city had power. The biggest problem is the utiltiy delinquents. These are people who sign up for services and then don't pay. Hundreds of thousands of dollars we could be using to improve and expand services and infrastructure or maybe employ more police. Instead one of my jobs is to hunt these people down and make them pay. And I'm very, very good at my job.
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It's not much but it's a start.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Every little bit helps those of us who do nothing.
My suggestion. California needs to get rid of its SUVs. Some rich fellow in San Diego does not need a 4WD. But single working mothers in NE Ohio need 4WDs in the winter to get to work. NEED them. Fuel efficiency, emissions be damned. Look out my window. SNOW. More snow falling. Covered roads. Snowed Sunday. Snowed all last week. Will snow until April. Scientists and greenies need to stop preaching against vehicles that I admit make no sense in the land of eternal sunshine, but are needed in larger numbers here in the snow belted northern tier states.
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Originally posted by Hero:
Scientists and greenies need to stop preaching against vehicles that I admit make no sense in the land of eternal sunshine, but are needed in larger numbers here in the snow belted northern tier states.
Um, sorry, but you're talking to someone from Winter-peg here. You do not need a SUV to do such things in winter. You just need sensible tires and driving habits.
And if your city doesn't clean the streets promptly nor properly, complain to the city, not to the "scientists and greenies."
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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
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maybe it exists, but it seems we need more scientific study
New Orleans was hit bad, forest fire in Europe and many homes damaged in Alabama
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Quote:Hero, you dumass, GW (not the pres) will ultimatly bring on a new Ice Age!
Originally posted by Hero:
I merely desire global warming. This morning it was very cold outside. When the thermometer reads 2 degrees at 11am then I say we NEEDS us some global warming.
And you'll get to see it's beginning before you hit 60!!
No stoppin' it now. We could all live in caves and never burn another drop of fossil fuel, and it wouldn't change what's goin' down.
Don't feel guilty about Global Warming - ANY of us!
There's absolutly nothing we can do now, 'cept invest in snow tractor and extreme temperature clothing companies!
And you, Hero, can spearhead the new legislation needed for the coming frostyness; there'll be lots of hangings necessary for those who steal snow boots, dogsleds and such!
To coldly go where no one has gone before Chrisisall
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Hahaha!
You know what I'm doing about global warming?? Well, ever since I read "Mother of Storms" (I highly recommend 25% of the book) I absolutely refuse to move to Florida, the Gulf Coast, the barrier islands or any other of them low-lying, vulnerable pieces of almost-real-estate that will be scoured off the face of the earth in the next ten years!
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Very prudent indeed! Move inland to brace for it.
And watch The Day After Tomorrow, it ain't a very good flick, but it'll get your mind right about the cold.
ChrisisallBRRRRR
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