Shaved Monkey wrote:The world is a mad place held together with lies they just represent their constituents.
No one would elect someone who said we are all doomed and we need to crash this gravy train before it goes over the cliff.
Dybbuk wrote:It's really easy to figure out why political "leaders" act the way they do. It's to win elections. Either their own, or others in their party.
Both peak oil and climate change are "pessimistic" viewpoints. Being pessimistic usually doesn't win, because voters have this unconscious belief that they can make bad stuff go away by voting for someone who says that the bad stuff isn't real. And even if the voter *does* believe in the bad stuff, he suspects that he'll get stuck with the bill for fixing it, while others will get off scot free, so the safe route is to vote for the guy who says that we're not going to fix it at all.
There’s no solution to peak oil, except to consume less in all areas of life, limit immigration, and above all, encourage women to have zero or one child, which is not acceptable to political leaders or corporations, who depend on growth for their survival.
Peak_Yeast wrote:The problem is that organized crime is on top of power everywhere in the world. Even if there is a few places where this is not the case they are not representative.
When the people that runs "the world" are just there for personal greed - or even greed for their "family" you cannot expect them to think about anything else. - This type of people are brain damaged in the real sense of the word. Psycho&Sociopaths has real and permanent damage to their brains - that prevents them from learning from mistakes or even punishment - at the same time they lack any real understanding of empathy. They are to be compared to the worst dope-adicts - their addiction might be power, money, prestige and not only actual drugs - even though they are probably often there too.
Once these types takes over power they are impossible to remove in any peaceful way - and sinced the governments has dumbed down the public - besides having a real comprehensive preventive system as well as any weapon desireable there is only collapse left to solve the situation.
Revolution is soo yesterday - unfortunately.
In a series of votes that took place on Thursday and Friday, the U.S. Senate voted against four separate measures that would have put it on record as recognizing what the vast majority of climate scientists have shown for decades now: that global warming since the start of the industrial revolution is largely manmade.
On Thursday evening, the Senate voted to table, or set aside, an amendment offered by Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, which would have expressed the "sense of the Senate" — a non-binding resolution that expresses the Senate's views on a matter — that climate change is real, is caused mainly by human activities and is already harming the U.S. and other countries. In introducing the amendment, Sanders said that if the Senate denies the reality of manmade climate change, "it would not only lead to bad public policy, but it would be an embarrassment before the entire world.”
Another amendment, offered by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, which would also have endorsed the reality of the manmade contribution to global warming but used different language to do so, was also defeated.
An amendment sponsored by Republican Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota that expressed the "sense of Congress" that "climate change is real, and human activity contributes to climate change" was defeated.
The Senate also rejected an amendment offered by Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii that would have put the legislative body on record as saying that "climate change is real, and human activity significantly contributes to climate change." The word "significantly" was cited by Senate Energy Committee chairperson, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, as a reason for her "no" vote.
The only climate change-related amendment that the Senate managed to pass — by a lopsided vote of 98 to 1 — merely says that the planet's climate does, in fact, change, and that this fact is "not a hoax." However, manmade climate change is a hoax, according to a prominent cosponsor of this amendment, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma. Inhofe heads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, putting him in a key role in providing oversight of the EPA.
dashster wrote:I think international leaders acknowledge global warming, they just choose to do nothing about it because the solution is so painful. But Peak Oil, Peak Gas and Peak Coal, while presenting a horrifying problem, will solve the global warming issue.
dashster wrote:I think international leaders acknowledge global warming, they just choose to do nothing about it because the solution is so painful. But Peak Oil, Peak Gas and Peak Coal, while presenting a horrifying problem, will solve the global warming issue.
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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