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04-24-2014, 04:43 AM
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Fuck Earth Day
Now here's a man after my own heart.
Nothing like a good rant to start the day off right.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/22-4
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End the dishonesty, the deception. Stop lying to yourselves, and to your children. Stop pretending that the crisis can be “solved,” that the planet can be “saved,” that business more-or-less as usual—what progressives and environmentalists have been doing for forty-odd years and more—is morally or intellectually tenable. Let go of the pretense that “environmentalism” as we know it—virtuous green consumerism, affluent low-carbon localism, head-in-the-sand conservationism, feel-good greenwashed capitalism—comes anywhere near the radical response our situation requires.
So, yeah, I've had it with Earth Day—and the culture of progressive green denial it represents.
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04-24-2014, 09:12 AM
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There are a few respected scientists who believe it's already too late and that all we can do is try to make the last few decades of human existence as comfortable as possible.
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04-24-2014, 09:32 AM
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There are a few respected scientists who believe it's already too late and that all we can do is try to make the last few decades of human existence as comfortable as possible.
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There['s no way we'll go extinct. The population might go down 99% in some bad case, but we're too smart, and too capable of eating just about anything, to go extinct. Like, if cockroaches survive, so will we.
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04-24-2014, 09:46 AM
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There['s no way we'll go extinct. The population might go down 99% in some bad case, but we're too smart, and too capable of eating just about anything, to go extinct. Like, if cockroaches survive, so will we.
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Really? Then if we asre so damn smart how did we get into this situation.
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04-24-2014, 09:50 AM
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By being so smart, but not just smart enough.
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04-24-2014, 09:55 AM
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There['s no way we'll go extinct. The population might go down 99% in some bad case, but we're too smart, and too capable of eating just about anything, to go extinct. Like, if cockroaches survive, so will we.
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Will we eat the cockroaches or will they eat us?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct...ss_extinctions
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04-24-2014, 10:02 AM
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Really? Then if we asre so damn smart how did we get into this situation.
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Because greed trumps smart.
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04-24-2014, 10:28 AM
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Or eternal optimism in the face of reality.
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04-24-2014, 11:07 AM
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There['s no way we'll go extinct. The population might go down 99% in some bad case, but we're too smart, and too capable of eating just about anything, to go extinct. Like, if cockroaches survive, so will we.
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More than likely those survivors will be from the few low tech primitive cultures that are left because they are used to having to rough it and their skills will be the most useful.
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04-24-2014, 11:09 AM
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I dunno, but the cockroaches will make it.
I have confidence in them.
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