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kleinbl00  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Global Warming vs Rush Limbaugh

    wait, what did you say?

...that stuff. that stuff up there. That stuff that basically says "global warming can no longer be stopped, it can only be slowed and even that is a lot less useful than dealing with the consequences."

Those two books I linked? I've read them. So throwing a whole bunch of OccupyWallSt links at me? Yeah, preaching to the choir, homie.

But what I don't understand is what you're so bent about. All i said was that you oughtta read up to get some perspective and that there are organizations that are doing what they can against climate change.

I'm not sure how getting all fleck-lipped about it is somehow better than, you know, wrapping your head around it and assessing it with a clear eye, but whatever.

mk - something in your emailer choked on the context above. Here's all I got via email:

Hi kleinbl00. ZenDog just replied to your post: So... based on your links and based on your viewpoint, what I'm going to recommend is some reading up on global warming.

For one thing, we're past the tipping point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

ZenDog wrote:

wait, what did you say?| Then, if you want to do somethingSo in other words, I really shouldn't do anything at all, right now, or even ever without first . . . reading something . . . .something like . . . THIS: > This is not cool> Along with the Arctic ice, the rich world's smugness will melt", by George Monbiot> The Crossroads clearly before us: Global Warming's Terrifying New Math; by Bill McKibben> Here’s a story that should be the lead across the nation: > Climate Change Is Happening Faster Than You Think > Already, traffic is increasing. In 2010, for example, the administrators of the Northern Sea Route granted permission for four vessels to transit the icy seaway. Last year, that total had risen to 46. Earlier this month, the figure stood at 270.> 5 Terrifying Statements in the Leaked Climate ReportLast Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report What Factors Determine Earth's Climate?+ Earth more sensitive to CO2 than previously thought





user-inactivated  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·  

you sounded like you were advocating doing nothing. All the information I've read seems to indicate that doing nothing is really not a solution. And whatever various organizations may be doing now the fact remains -

Congressional Denial of Global Warming is INSANE

Given that INSANITY and the facts themselves, it makes little sense to find someone posing as an intellectual advocating do nothing -

and therefore IF I am preaching and IF you are indeed the choir then surely one of us is in the entirely wrong building . . .

The whole purpose and intent of this post was to encourage some new thinking among a bunch of writers an' shit, around the subject of how this denialism perpetuates itself, who profits, and what possible solutions might present, short of, you know, . . .

cutting off rush limpballs head

You aren't interested in rocking the boat? Why is that? Are you scared?

what will you look like a decade from now?

.

and as for that stuff up there, I've read all of it. Some of it I even found all by my self . . . can you imagine? Well, with a little Google of course . . .