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squeakygeek posted:I think it's ironic just how well you illustrate the politics by making this statement. I don't understand this post. What are you saying here?
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When does it stop beingTrabisnikof posted:Except make new farm land, grow different crops, build greenhouses, have a few million/billion people starve while the rich eat grapes, etc etc etc Exactly. Humanity as a thing isn't going anywhere. Bangladesh on the other hand.
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Sep 23, 2014 23:02
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Trabisnikof posted:Solution to what? I have a feeling that some people wouldn't be happy so long as land use change occurs (unless it was changing land use to parks or wildlands). I don't understand this post. Who are these people and what exactly are they unhappy about?
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Oct 1, 2014 23:54
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Arkane posted:This is unironically exactly what is going to happen and it's going to be awesome. Ladies and Gentlemen, Thankyou and Goodnight.
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Oct 3, 2014 01:46
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If you talk about meat somebody will bring up their sister who can't process plant protein and if you talk about children somebody will talk about stupid hippies who care about plants more than people. How to get around this? Your guess is as good as mine.
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Oct 9, 2014 02:45
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Inglonias posted:On a related note, I found this article interesting as well. It links to a National Wildlife Fund report about the psychological effects of climate change. Those aren't looking so great either. Cool article, thanks. Turns out climate scientists are people too. Having reactions not unlike people have been in this thread periodically since the op. quote:“I don’t know of a single scientist that’s not having an emotional reaction to what is being lost,” Parmesan is quoted saying in the National Wildlife Federation’s 2012 report, “The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States: And Why the U.S. Mental Health Care System is Not Adequately Prepared.” “It’s gotten to be so depressing that I’m not sure I’m going to go back to this particular site again,” she says, referring to an ocean reef she has studied since 2002, “because I just know I’m going to see more and more of it dead, and bleached, and covered with brown algae.” SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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Nov 3, 2014 10:29
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Or dump them in the ocean.
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Dec 7, 2014 07:00
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Randandal posted:I don't think Arkane can be described as a climate denier as much as a climate skeptic. Two totally different things. Skepticism is always a healthy thing. Actually they're the same thing.
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Dec 21, 2014 23:17
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Odonata posted:Except out here in western Massachusetts every other house has a "Stop the Pipeline" lawn sign. People are pissed at the idea of expanding our natural gas capacity, even as our electric rates just shot up 40% due to a lack of capacity in the system. The Mt. Tom coal plant shut down a few months ago. Popular opinion has killed biomass, solar and wind projects. Even getting more hydro power runs up against opposition. In short, we demand safe, clean renewable power- just as long as somebody else has to look at it. Popular opinion can stop renewables but not natural gas? E: can also stop nuclear but not coal, oil or wars perceived as related to them? SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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Dec 31, 2014 03:53
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So the federal government could overrule the nimbys tomorrow if it wanted to? Like it has with gas? It sounds like nimbys are allowed to stop renewables.
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Jan 1, 2015 03:44
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ToxicSlurpee posted:There's the problem of votes, though. If a Democrat politician came through a neighborhood and was like "hey by the way, we're going to build a shitload of things here all of you deliberately voted down in location elections" you can bet there'd suddenly be a lot more Republicans in the area next election. Like it has with gas?
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Jan 1, 2015 09:51
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bpower posted:"As inequality soars, the nervous super rich are already planning their escapes" I look forward to this making its way into the mainsteam consiousness, it's about time we had a new trope for villians. An American version of Let's get Skase, new COD DLC involves "renationalizing" assets from a US expat living in a compound in the dominican republic. SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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Jan 27, 2015 03:58
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Ccs posted:I guess my issue is that consuming resources that are immediately available in order to gain more immediate comfort seems like a human nature thing and less like just a "capitalism" thing. Like, if humans lived for 1000 years I could see a venture capitalist going "It is not rational for me to extract this oil, because it will harm me while I still expect to be around to experience life. So I will invest in alternatives." But since the alternatives may not be able to ensure the same quality of life, and because human life-span is only around a century, we ignore matters that may harm future generations. People are capable of the sort of long term planning required, it's just selected against by market forces. The first example that comes to mind is planting forests to be harvested generations down the line. http://www.longfinance.net/groups7/viewbulletin/35-maintenance-planning-over-millennia-or-how-to-cash-in-a-forest.html?groupid=4 quote:About 100 years ago the college authorities found that the 500 year old roof beams were infested with beetles and needed replacing. They called in the College Forester and asked this worthy if there were any suitable oak trees on the rather extensive college-owned lands. His reply is supposed to have been “well sirs, we was wondering when you’d be asking.” Upon further inquiry it was discovered that when the college was founded, a grove of oaks had been planted specifically to replace the beams in the dining hall when this eventually became necessary. Successive generations of foresters had passed on the knowledge that one day the college would come knocking for wood. SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Feb 5, 2015 01:39
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CommieGIR posted:http://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/senator-whitehouse-rips-senator-snowball?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter The senator with the snowball lol. Inhofe is such trash.
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Feb 28, 2015 02:41
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Hiro Protagonist posted:So...are humans about to go extinct? I'm 22 now, and I have trouble with this, and the realization that my life may end with intense starvation and thirst experienced by all other humans on the planet. I read reports on how we're doomed, no one is going to acknowledge it, and within this century we'll just die out. Are these just from the pessimists, and there is real reason for hope and belief that, while things will be bad, humanity will survive, or am I just fooling myself and it would be better to just die? If you're in the first world you'll probably be fine, on the whole. Depending on how young you are you might live to see some very interesting times before you croak. I wouldn't want to be a member of the post-millennials.
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Mar 18, 2015 02:25
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Hiro Protagonist posted:How likely is near-term human extinction at this point? What's the smallest number you can have that isn't zero?
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Mar 18, 2015 02:32
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Trabisnikof posted:So are you arguing that it is better to not adopt kids from the 3rd world because if you do they might consume more? What the gently caress are you even talking about?
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Mar 19, 2015 04:05
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Batham posted:At least for me it has nothing to do with wanting children or not. It has everything to do with some posters seeming to treat children as a single derived negative number instead of a collection of variables, variables that can be both helpful and not. This is wrong and why people are making fun of you. Hello Sailor posted:Lookit this guy who think genes are important when GMOs are already a thing. 
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Mar 20, 2015 06:19
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Trabisnikof posted:Awkward..... Which axis is insurance company activism?
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Mar 20, 2015 06:44
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unlawfulsoup posted:The whole not have children thing is pretty hilarious, even by D&D standards. Do you guys live in the real world? Sure, some people will not have kids willingly, for a number of reasons related or not related to climate change. Good luck convincing a sizable amount of the population to follow suit. You have everything from societal norms, to religion in your way before you can hope to get anywhere. Greedy or unreasonable as it may be to some of you, many people put a fairly enormous value on passing their DNA on, a lot of evolutionary bits there. You're really against a thing nobody has argued for and you're smug about it.
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Mar 20, 2015 12:32
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Arkane posted:I was highlighting the fact that Vice presented a study out of context to make it scarier, as an example of political views clouding the science. I never address you becauses lol what's the point but, No, You were using a vice documentary to try and prove that posters in this thread would be upset if climate change never ended up happening. You slimy piece of poo poo. Durr people tell me to gently caress off when I tell them science isn't real ergo they must be an apocalypse cult. For my next trick I'll poo poo my pants.
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Mar 22, 2015 22:29
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Arkane posted:
Nobody is frothing at anything. You're a disingenuous piece of poo poo because you pointed to it as an example of people wanting to accept climate change is real out of an apocalyptical desire and who would deny accepted science if it ever swung against them. Arkane posted:
It's the laziest and most transparent bullshit.
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Mar 23, 2015 01:50
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Arkane posted:Yes I think it is a great example of fetishizing climate outcomes for political ends. Another example would be duck monster's posts in this thread. Paraphrasing one of his posts, "the hiatus doesn't exist because it is getting warmer in Australia." I mean if you're telling me that people aren't completely committed to climate change bringing an apocalypse, I'd say click on page 1 of this thread, buckle up/secure all small children, and then start reading. "You mad bro?" You're good at this.
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Mar 23, 2015 05:03
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Seeing danger on the horizon, Wisconsin dons a blindfold.
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Apr 11, 2015 04:23
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Arkane isn't a paid shill they're just really stupid, jfc.
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Apr 28, 2015 00:40
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Is there anything to recommend to read that goes into how a technologically capable hunter-gatherer civilization of the future might look like?
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Jul 19, 2015 05:12
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Zombie #246 posted:Can we please start to talk about what badass post apocalyptic outfits we'll have, I'm going with a tire on the left shoulder and a breastplate with a faded nuke symbol embossed on it I'm going to print out and wear an outfit made of all good posts made by forums users "computer parts." I will be naked.
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Jul 20, 2015 02:41
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I had to explain all day, every day that we got all the pumpkin we could, nobody had any, and we couldn't get any and no I won't check in the back, I'm serious, we don't freaking have any pumpkin. It looks like global warming is a component of it, if not outright the cause, but all people do is blame the store. Come on, we know you keep the good ones out the back for you and your friends.
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Oct 20, 2015 21:36
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WaryWarren posted:Greenland is melting away You were not kidding.
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Radbot posted:"Skyrocketing downward", that's a new one. If you look at everything upside down it makes perfect sense.
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