Outcast_Searcher wrote:So buildings in this country don't get old or break down if poorly built or maintained?
Huh? Non sequitur much?
Outcast_Searcher wrote:So buildings in this country don't get old or break down if poorly built or maintained?
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
partisanship or non-cooperation in the U.S. Congress has been increasing exponentially for over 60 years with no sign of abating or reversing.
Newfie wrote:Ah, but the collapse dosent have to happen overnight. And we can be comfortable, at least for a while, maybe a lifetime, before things get seriously bad. And my lifetime is getting short!
asg70 wrote:Newfie wrote:Ah, but the collapse dosent have to happen overnight. And we can be comfortable, at least for a while, maybe a lifetime, before things get seriously bad. And my lifetime is getting short!
If temperatures spike several degrees by the end of the century that would mean they'd spike another 1-2 degrees within the next couple decades. That might be enough to seriously damage the planet's carrying capacity. Since I'm still in my 40s, I'm expecting things to get pretty uncomfortable by the time I hit retirement age and my daughter will definitely face the tip of the spear. It's only in the next decade or so that I feel we might enjoy a last gasp of normalcy.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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