You guys smell smoke?
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
-- Henry David Thoreau
(Caution: This is another of my little diatribe's. So noone *cough*dave*cough* can say I didn't warn them.)
If what I read is correct, the entire world is going to resemble the surface of my ass on a hot summer day within the next 70 years. That's right, we're talking about a hot, sweaty, suffocated, barren and generally unpleasant place where no organisms save bacteria and virus' could (or would want to) survive. I would provide links to some of the latest news on the subject but it's hardly necessary. Just go to any news site and you'll find some mention of polar melting and global warming.
The timetable has been stepped-up considerably. Instead of hundreds of years, we're now looking at decades before the Earth will be rendered uninhabitable by human beings, as a result of our own blundering. Within our lifetime (probably between 2035 and 2050) the global temperature will raise about two degrees C. Since that didn't mean much to me when I first read it, let me translate: You can forget about doing any snowboarding in North America come 2040.
The change would cause polar melting and a host of other problems. Rainforests and agricultural areas will suffer draught, all kinds of animals like polar bears and walrus' who can only survive in colder temps will likely die...it's gonna suck big monkey balls.
I would think (and just about every reputable news vendor seems to agree with me) that this revelation deserves the attention of the entire world. I totally understand Wes' concerns with copyleft and copyright and Tim's concerns about God neglecting to endow him with super powers and pretty much everyones concerns about central Iowa going down the crapper, but I really thought someone needed to mention this. It's something that everyone needs to be thinking about because all of us, and/or our progeny, will be affected.
None of our lofty concerns about society, economy and law will matter if the human race is merely trying to avoid starvation by the beggining of the next century.
Last night we didn't hear any mention of it among the priorites of our re-elected retard. "I don't really give a shit about the environment, but damnit don't we need to stop the gang violence and let more immigrants come into the country and keep killin them mid-eastern critters."
I don't have any profound opinons to add really. I think the facts speak pretty well for their self. If everyone just follows the example of our country's president and ignores the problem, we ensure that our children and their children will suffer for our ignorance.
So everyone buy hybrid cars, okay?
Some lighthearted linkage.
Good ol' Waterloo Iowa makes it into Yahoo!'s "Oddly Enough" page.
What a way to go.
-- Henry David Thoreau
(Caution: This is another of my little diatribe's. So noone *cough*dave*cough* can say I didn't warn them.)
If what I read is correct, the entire world is going to resemble the surface of my ass on a hot summer day within the next 70 years. That's right, we're talking about a hot, sweaty, suffocated, barren and generally unpleasant place where no organisms save bacteria and virus' could (or would want to) survive. I would provide links to some of the latest news on the subject but it's hardly necessary. Just go to any news site and you'll find some mention of polar melting and global warming.
The timetable has been stepped-up considerably. Instead of hundreds of years, we're now looking at decades before the Earth will be rendered uninhabitable by human beings, as a result of our own blundering. Within our lifetime (probably between 2035 and 2050) the global temperature will raise about two degrees C. Since that didn't mean much to me when I first read it, let me translate: You can forget about doing any snowboarding in North America come 2040.
The change would cause polar melting and a host of other problems. Rainforests and agricultural areas will suffer draught, all kinds of animals like polar bears and walrus' who can only survive in colder temps will likely die...it's gonna suck big monkey balls.
I would think (and just about every reputable news vendor seems to agree with me) that this revelation deserves the attention of the entire world. I totally understand Wes' concerns with copyleft and copyright and Tim's concerns about God neglecting to endow him with super powers and pretty much everyones concerns about central Iowa going down the crapper, but I really thought someone needed to mention this. It's something that everyone needs to be thinking about because all of us, and/or our progeny, will be affected.
None of our lofty concerns about society, economy and law will matter if the human race is merely trying to avoid starvation by the beggining of the next century.
Last night we didn't hear any mention of it among the priorites of our re-elected retard. "I don't really give a shit about the environment, but damnit don't we need to stop the gang violence and let more immigrants come into the country and keep killin them mid-eastern critters."
I don't have any profound opinons to add really. I think the facts speak pretty well for their self. If everyone just follows the example of our country's president and ignores the problem, we ensure that our children and their children will suffer for our ignorance.
So everyone buy hybrid cars, okay?
Some lighthearted linkage.
Good ol' Waterloo Iowa makes it into Yahoo!'s "Oddly Enough" page.
What a way to go.
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