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And now for something important: the globe has an ~20% chance of hitting the global warming 1.5C target in the next 5 years
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 7:05 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 7:50 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 9:05 PM
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 10:11 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: Back when you were in grade school was a long time ago, and science has moved on in the last 30 years.
Quote:Part of what's driving global warming is sheer wastefulness and inefficiency. If we got more efficient, and less geared towards excess, we could have everything we have today, at less of an environmental and overall monetary cost. IMO what's driving that inefficiency and wastefulness are very large human-built (ie not forces of nature) systems - our economic model and global corporations. Our economic model requires that corporations sell MORE in order to make MORE money than the competition; or by selling NEW AND DIFFERENT in order to carve out a new market. No company does well by selling 'just enough' - for example, just enough of food basics to healthfully sustain life. Maybe you haven't watched TV lately, but the number of fast-food and pre-prepared commercials is astounding. Anyway, I know you've personally pared down your lifestyle to know the difference between necessity and luxury, between need and want. But if everyone followed your lifestyle*, the economy would collapse sooner than it's already slated to do. And then there are the corporations with their very large vested interests in keeping everything the same and doing everything the same. Exxon is going to be opposed to highly efficient ethanol-fueled fuel-cell cars. BASF is going to be opposed to insect solutions like (agricultural) integrated pest management that don't rely on regular and excessive use of its insecticides. Every solution that involves us doing something DIFFERENT - even if it's a cheaper, better, less excessive, more efficient option - is going to be opposed by an industry with a vested interest.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 10:41 PM
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 11:43 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: I know about lightbulbs being designed to break. But it's not just 'planned obsolescence'. Consumer's didn't campaign for blister packaging, plastic-covered styrofoam meat trays, and plastic disposable grocery bags. Nor did they demand racoptine-fed beef and beef-mush-plus-glue 'steaks'. And certainly they would prefer a 100mpg car at a reasonable price, or better yet, convenient public transportation on open roads where they don't have to worry about missing the last damn bus for the evening or being caught for hours in traffic jams.
Quote:Consumers - except as voiceless pawns - aren't part of the picture when these extremely wasteful decisions are being made. In this economy, there's only one criteria - will it make a company money.
Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:30 AM
WISHIMAY
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: No worries. I'm just hoping The Coomph takes ME out before the world lights on fire is all.
Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: I'm assuming that's a dig at me because of my comment about the 1 degree change.
Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:43 AM
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SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: . . . the only real fix for any of this is population reduction.
Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:15 PM
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Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:24 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: And when Biden* fails to keep his promises - or even promote them - I'll be happy to laugh at his skinny saggy ass parading all over town in his New Clothes™. That goes for the democrats* in general, too.
Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:19 PM
Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:59 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: . . . the only real fix for any of this is population reduction.6ix, that is not a "fix". It's a philosophy for being defeated by life.
Friday, February 19, 2021 7:16 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: Biden* never promised to reduce CO2 emission to zero, so you bringing that up in answer is a total strawman on your part. As usual. I'm just saying he* and the Dems* - the people in complete control of the WH and Congress in case you hadn't noticed - won't make any significant changes to global warming gas emissions either. And you can post that in any of the 'predictions' threads, or all of them if you want.
Sunday, February 21, 2021 3:09 PM
Sunday, February 21, 2021 3:52 PM
Quote:The switch worked, except in Africa, where type 2 vaccine-derived outbreaks have been more frequent and much harder to stop than the models projected; they are now smoldering in seven countries. By using mOPV2, "We have now created more new emergences of the virus than we have stopped," Pallansch says. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6449/106.full https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/surging-cases-have-dashed-all-hope-polio-might-be-eradicated-2019
Sunday, February 21, 2021 4:27 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: Gates is an idiot, as his massively disastrous Gates-backed polio vaccination programs show - as attested to by that radical anti-vax publication Science. Quote:The switch worked, except in Africa, where type 2 vaccine-derived outbreaks have been more frequent and much harder to stop than the models projected; they are now smoldering in seven countries. By using mOPV2, "We have now created more new emergences of the virus than we have stopped," Pallansch says. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6449/106.full https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/surging-cases-have-dashed-all-hope-polio-might-be-eradicated-2019 Sure, Gates said. Let's massively try out that new gosh-whiz technology on the global population, he said. It'll be fun! he said. Gates is not an epidemiologist/ virologist and his pronouncements have hardly any credibility. And neither is he a climatologist, and his pronouncements are just as incredible.
Sunday, February 21, 2021 4:35 PM
Sunday, February 21, 2021 4:44 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: There are far more facts to this story. To recap: Yes, it was the Gates FOUNDATION that backed the vax efforts. Do you think Billy wasn't behind it what his foundation was doing? That the Gates Foundation somehow opposed Billy's will? And yes, the vaccination program was a disaster, spread and embedding far more polio in Africa than existed in the first place. Now it's a mess that'll take who knows how long to clean up, that even Gates flunky Wenger won't predict.
Sunday, February 21, 2021 5:44 PM
Sunday, February 21, 2021 6:38 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: If Gates actually knew anything - which he doesn't - he would have known that the only truly safe polio vaccine to date is the killed virus. Poliovirus reverting is a well-known phenomenon. And thanks for quoting that the vaccination efforts in part funded by the Gets Foundation caused far more polio cases than naturally-occurring polio.
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JAYNEZTOWN
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SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Saturday, July 31, 2021 4:55 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Second just dropping hints all over the board that he's pissing and moaning about the filibuster not being killed. Boo Hoo, dude. I told you from the very beginning it wasn't going to happen. You should listen to me more often.
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DREAMTROVE
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Quote:Originally posted by second: Disintegrating ice sheets holding enough water to raise seas a dozen metres...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021 10:37 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Does this mean that you're going to slaughter all of your cows and get out of the Steak Business as a show of good faith then, Second. It really annoys us that your fictional RL personality and its farting cows are responsible for all of the fires.
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