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The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

The Bloop posted:

the planet is fine

the human species is almost certainly also fine

our modern global civilization and SA-level standard of living.... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

hahah look at this clown
:golgo:

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Mulaney Power Move
Dec 30, 2004

i read a doomsday post somewhere that in the next ten years refugees from the west coast of the us will overrun the redt of the country and we'll start banning their migration/machine gunning them.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

Flyover state porn

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Alien trying to draw human from memory.

Mulaney Power Move
Dec 30, 2004


it's from one of those berserker tribes that ate mushrooms and went into battle nude with rock hard cocks

Rubellavator
Aug 16, 2007

planet is actually 71% under water

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


i have begun drinking my urine in preparation for the eventual collapse

cardedagain
Aug 28, 2006

Play posted:

A better question might be 'is anyone doing anything to limit their negative impact on the earth?' I'm well aware that regular citizens aren't the primary contributors but the more poo poo you buy, the more you drive around in gas guzzlers or at all, the more plane flights you take, the more disposable plastic you use, the worse it is. Reduce reuse recycle and limit greenhouse gasses.

I find it rewarding to start with yourself, changing the world entirely is impossible but if you can change the way you do things and maybe influence others in the same direction that's at least doable.

ehhh get rid of cruise ships first then we can talk about the smaller issues.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
I can't wait for the new paradigm of Earth + Plastic. We have accomplished the goal Gaia put before us wonderfully, creating plastic, and soon it'll be time to be put away.

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

cardedagain posted:

ehhh get rid of cruise ships first then we can talk about the smaller issues.
if cruise ships are outlawed only outlaws will have cruise ships!!!

Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:

Planet’s dyin, Cloud

Came for this, not disappointed.

Cerebral Mayhem
Jul 18, 2000

Very useful on the planet Delphon, where they communicate with their eyebrows
The planet doesn't give a gently caress about the crawling skin disease called Life. Maybe all the other planets think that Earth has cooties.

Novo
May 13, 2003

Stercorem pro cerebro habes
Soiled Meat

Disco Pope posted:

We're the Planeteers, you can be one too, saving the planet is the thing to do! Looting and polluting is not the way, hear what Captain Planet has to say:

"Have a meat free day, ride a bike and use metal straws, sure lol that will offset corporate pollution you loving clown"

for the kids who are too young to remember this series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJaELXadKo

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

no one is talking about the mantle and core and all the magma and poo poo you nerds the planet is dying

Flyball
Apr 17, 2003

Meme Poker Party posted:

I think we’ve been going about this the wrong way all along. Instead of making anime real on Earth, we should all become anime to escape Earth.

My friend sent me a link to that music video.

Eddy-Baby
Mar 8, 2006

₤₤LOADSA MONAY₤₤
if we act decisively and quickly, we might be able to save our hellworld fascist dystopia

naem
May 29, 2011

Mulaney Power Move posted:

i read a doomsday post somewhere that in the next ten years refugees from the west coast of the us will overrun the redt of the country and we'll start banning their migration/machine gunning them.

I already escaped lol will happily gun the rest down for food

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
Dont mind me, I'll just be over here, sitting in my air-conditioned coffin waiting to die.

Play
Apr 25, 2006

Strong stroll for a mangy stray

cardedagain posted:

ehhh get rid of cruise ships first then we can talk about the smaller issues.

It's certainly easier to just put it all on some nameless other who has a mythical power over cruise ships and suggest a change that you have no power to effect, instead of actually making some minor changes yourself. Isn't it.

Honestly if any of you live like most Americans, just buying tons of useless poo poo, tons of disposable plastic, throwing away dozens of pounds of trash every day, driving some huge loving pointless truck, etc. you don't really have the right to whine about the earth dying because you aren't doing the smallest thing to change anything, in fact you are gleefully participating.

I'm not saying that's you, it's just something that I've noticed. Even people who profess to care about these things seemingly don't care about it enough to even make the smallest sacrifice. And at the end of the day it's the rabid materialism of common people that corporations are catering to as they ruin the environment.

Novo
May 13, 2003

Stercorem pro cerebro habes
Soiled Meat

Play posted:

It's certainly easier to just put it all on some nameless other who has a mythical power over cruise ships and suggest a change that you have no power to effect, instead of actually making some minor changes yourself. Isn't it.

Honestly if any of you live like most Americans, just buying tons of useless poo poo, tons of disposable plastic, throwing away dozens of pounds of trash every day, driving some huge loving pointless truck, etc. you don't really have the right to whine about the earth dying because you aren't doing the smallest thing to change anything, in fact you are gleefully participating.

I'm not saying that's you, it's just something that I've noticed. Even people who profess to care about these things seemingly don't care about it enough to even make the smallest sacrifice. And at the end of the day it's the rabid materialism of common people that corporations are catering to as they ruin the environment.

those people certainly exist but there are plenty of people who try to make responsible decisions. only states have the power to prohibit certain things, even if there is a demand for them. you can't seriously be advocating waiting until the general population comes to its senses on huge pointless trucks, single-use plastics, cruise lines, etc

there always seems to be enough people who will never be on board with this, sort of like a reverse drug war mentality.

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

There is research that suggests that focusing on advocating for personal-level action can actually dull the will for governmental/societal-level action, for a few reasons, but partially because it can make it seem like governmental action is not needed if we all just "do our part :shobon:"

That said I can no longer live with myself if I don't make changes. I'm lucky to be moving to a very walkable city with decent public transport at the end of the month and so will cut my own personal driving to basically nothing. I already almost never fly, it fuckin sucks anyway. Maybe I can cut that down from "roughly once a year" to "never" if I give up on my dreams of visiting other countries. I'm doing my best to conserve energy, eat meat only rarely, stop buying single-use plastic, etc. I know none of this adds up to anything and our supply chains are so goddamn complicated that there are probably a few ways what I'm doing is actually worse in ways that I could never have known about, but I sincerely don't think I could continue existing if I didn't do something.

I'm getting involved and organizing, too, but I will feel like a hypocrite if I do that while eating burgers and driving everywhere and running my AC full blast when I'm moderately uncomfortable and throwing Ziploc bags out all the time and all of that.

It's an impossible feeling to escape, I think.

runnypoops
Mar 26, 2016

been there. done that. prove yourself to me.
The floods are my bad jerked it too much sorry guys i just really like bustin

Armitage
Aug 16, 2005

"Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."
It's dying and nobody cares

cnut
May 3, 2016

Disco Pope posted:

"Have a meat free day, ride a bike and use metal straws, sure lol that will offset corporate pollution you loving clown"

I'm drinking whisky out of a recyclable bottle, is that ok?

SilkyP
Jul 21, 2004

The Boo-Box

Is the planet sentient

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost
Look, Ben Shapiro said you can just sell your underwater property, he is very smart. We should listen to him

Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

Play posted:

It's certainly easier to just put it all on some nameless other who has a mythical power over cruise ships and suggest a change that you have no power to effect, instead of actually making some minor changes yourself. Isn't it.

Honestly if any of you live like most Americans, just buying tons of useless poo poo, tons of disposable plastic, throwing away dozens of pounds of trash every day, driving some huge loving pointless truck, etc. you don't really have the right to whine about the earth dying because you aren't doing the smallest thing to change anything, in fact you are gleefully participating.

I'm not saying that's you, it's just something that I've noticed. Even people who profess to care about these things seemingly don't care about it enough to even make the smallest sacrifice. And at the end of the day it's the rabid materialism of common people that corporations are catering to as they ruin the environment.

"I'm not blaming some nameless other like you fucks, I said 'most Americans', and 'the rabid materialism of common people". Those are names, right?"

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

It's fine Op.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Lawrence Gilchrist posted:

"I'm not blaming some nameless other like you fucks, I said 'most Americans', and 'the rabid materialism of common people". Those are names, right?"

most of don't have a choice. The best we can do is minimal. It sucks. I would like to do better

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

most of don't have a choice. The best we can do is minimal. It sucks. I would like to do better

Why?

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Because we should always be better

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Serves her right for birthing homo sapiens imo

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

It turns out that swagger killed the planet, the fedoras were right, it was class, not swag that would have saved us, but the swag was too powerful and the class too pathetic and weak.

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

Look, Ben Shapiro said you can just sell your underwater property, he is very smart. We should listen to him

Joke's on him, I'm never gonna own property, suck it Ben :c00lbert:

DickParasite
Dec 2, 2004


Slippery Tilde
Switch to a vegan diet and buy local OP. It's literally all you can do.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Harrow posted:

Joke's on him, I'm never gonna own property, suck it Ben :c00lbert:

nice try. gently caress Ben

oh dope
Nov 2, 2006

No guilt, it feeds in plain sight
The planet will be fine

We're hosed

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

oh dope posted:

The planet will be fine

We're hosed

agreed

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DickParasite
Dec 2, 2004


Slippery Tilde

oh dope posted:

The planet will be fine

We're hosed

"fine" in the sense that biodiversity will probably eventually recover as it did following previous mass extinctions. Of course that'll mean new species, ecosystems, etc...

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