by Nathan Natas 86 Replies latest jw friends
I respect Al Gore, mostly. We've had far worse politicians. I enjoyed the film. He has people discussing it.
The vast majority of scientists support global warming. One thing I noticed is that you did not attack global warming but you made fun of Al Gore on not very distinguished grounds.
I can call right-wing nuts names but that doesn't advance conversation, does it.
Isn't that actually the point BoR? The powers that be have managed to bamboozle a large segment of the populace in to this kind of conversation stopper. It's far too scary to the R&F, and far too detrimental to the profits of big business.
The mentality of Nathan and other self righteous anti-Global Warming people is such that they, incapable of addressing the subject, have to engage in what I call Verbal Voodoo.
The old voodoo priests would make a doll in the image of their intended victim and stick pins in it in order to psychologically traumatize their target. Short digression. Don't laugh. Nowadays it doesn't seem like much to find a doll with pins stuck in it at your doorstep but that's because imaging technology has deadened us to the symbolism. Imagine however finding a life size mannequin with your actual features; a knife stuck in it and a lot of red ketchup all over your porch.
Based on similar principles, Verbal voodooists like Nathan try to anthropomorphize what is, to them, the incomprehensible issue of Global Warming into a figure like Al Gore whom they choose as a symbol of the issue. Then they stick verbal pins and needles into their psychological projection of their chosen scapegoat/demon in order to magically slay the issue.
It would be much simpler if they just reverted to childhood nursery rhymes and chanted, "Rain, rain, go away. Come back here another day."
Villabolo
Just say the US did decide to legislate reduced greenhouse gasses on a wide scale. How effective would this globally given that other countries are "coming into their own" as far as producers of greenhouse gases. What would be the impact on american business and it's ability to compete with the other countries who dont have these regulations in place.
It seems to me that there really needs to be economic parity between these countries - which includes environmental protections before anyone can "ratchet up" the greenhouse gas concerns.
.02 worth
Not to worry, what w runaway political kerrectness, soon it will be an act of terrorism to deny globle worming.
S
Darthfader:
"Just say the US did decide to legislate reduced greenhouse gasses on a wide scale. How effective would this globally given that other countries are "coming into their own" as far as producers of greenhouse gases. What would be the impact on american business and it's ability to compete with the other countries who dont have these regulations in place."
If we were to take drastic action to radically reduce fossil fuel consumption-and mind you, most people who think they know something about the issue don't have a clue as to what radical is-then we would be rewarded by having our teeth kicked in by Human distorted Nature.
If we were to do nothing, or take the token actions that Obama suggests, then we will still have our teeth kicked in (By the Arctic meltdown) and sometime later we will have our skulls smashed in by other disturbances.
The reason for that is because if we were to stop burning all fossil fuels today, we would still not be able to stop the Arctic ice cap from shrinking, exposing more ocean and altering our weather for the worse. The consequences are to crops like the recent damage to Canada's wheat harvest due to intense rains. We're going to get more of that.
Furthermore, if we stopped releasing more Carbon Dioxide today, we would still be due for another 1F increase in Global Temperatures, within the next 30 years, on top of the 1.4F we've had since pre-industrial times.
That's our teeth getting smashed in.
So we have the choice of taking radical action right now to prevent catastrophes decades from now and taking emergency measures, such as stockpiling food, to prepare for the inevitable disasters in the coming years.
So go ahead and do nothing.
Bottom line, it is imbecilic to talk nonsense about competing with other nations when devastation after devastation is going to rob everyone of this-and it is worthy of destruction-psychopathic economy. We don't live to work we work to live. F*ck Mammon!
Villabolo
soon it will be an act of terrorism to deny globle worming.
instead of just fucking moronic.
Well I don't know it was kind of cold here today so I guess that proves there is no such thing as global warming.
why do people waste their time?
