Today’s global consumption of fossil fuels now stands at roughly five times what it was in the 1950s, and one-and-half times that of the 1980s when the science of global warming had already been confirmed and accepted by governments with the implication that there was an urgent need to act. Tomes of scientific studies have been logged in the last several decades documenting the deteriorating biospheric health, yet nothing substantive has been done to curtail it. More CO2 has been emitted since the inception of the UN Climate Change Convention in 1992 than in all of human history. CO2 emissions are 55% higher today than in 1990. Despite 20 international conferences on fossil fuel use reduction and an international treaty that entered into force in 1994, manmade greenhouse gases have risen inexorably. If it has not dawned on you by now, our economic and political systems are ill-equipped to deal with this existential threat. Existing international agreements are toothless because they have no verification or enforcement and do not require anything remotely close to what is needed to avoid catastrophe. The 20 warmest years on record have been in the past 22 years, with the top four in the past four years, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Ice loss from Antarctica has sextupled since the 1970s and Greenland’s pace of ice loss has increased fourfold since 2003. The Arctic ocean has lost 95% of its old ice and total volume of ice in September, the lowest ice month of the year, has declined by 78% between 1979 and 2012. With grim implications for the future, Earth’s air conditioner —the cryosphere— is melting away...
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AdamB wrote:Doomer stuff!!! We miss the fast crash doomers, they all died, or claimed stupid things that never happened. Ruppert was a favorite...hey...wasn't XRay Mike one of his sycophants or something? So this might be the GOOD stupid doom stuff then!
Newfie wrote:So what do you propose? What is one to do?
Yonnipun wrote:You my friend are so bluepilled...
Of course, nobody's going to rightfully give up their voting rights.
asg70 wrote:Newfie wrote:So what do you propose? What is one to do?
That's a trick question. Nobody's going to implement my ideas, so it serves little purpose to share.
Suffice to say, like Hubbert, I believe in a technocracy. And like Heinlein I think voting should be a privilege, not a right, one earned not so much by military service but by demonstrating a minimum of intelligence and civic-mindedness. If we were to successfuly "cull" the deadwood out of the voting public then we might get somewhere. Not that IQ leads to some singular ideology (although the intelligentsia skews left) but at least we'd reach a point where people are successfully processing humanity's existential threat, as the data is inescapable to anyone with a functioning brain, and differences could be worked out more through debate rather than bullying. Of course, nobody's going to rightfully give up their voting rights.
xraymike79 wrote:It's like the diehard smoker who keeps puffing away through a tracheostomy while spitting up blood and loosing weight. "I don't have cancer yet, so why live in fear with the anticipation that I might die from it?" It would help if they just stopped smoking but they can't:
asg70 wrote:
That's a trick question. Nobody's going to implement my ideas, so it serves little purpose to share.
Suffice to say, like Hubbert, I believe in a technocracy. And like Heinlein I think voting should be a privilege, not a right, one earned not so much by military service but by demonstrating a minimum of intelligence and civic-mindedness. If we were to successfuly "cull" the deadwood out of the voting public then we might get somewhere. Not that IQ leads to some singular ideology (although the intelligentsia skews left) but at least we'd reach a point where people are successfully processing humanity's existential threat, as the data is inescapable to anyone with a functioning brain, and differences could be worked out more through debate rather than bullying. Of course, nobody's going to rightfully give up their voting rights.
KaiserJeep wrote:Twaddle. The USA is NOT ready to "prosecute another war in Venezuela". We are attempting to deliver humanitarian aid - meaning food, water, and medical supplies - and the Marxists are burning those trucks. Even as Venezuelans starve and perish from lack of medicines, they are burning the very things needed to live.
You have to admire such stubborn revelutionary zeal, if not the intelligence of those destroying such food and medicine.
Venezuela is more fortunate than most countries with it's oil reserves. Marxism has failed again, give them time to understand.
Ibon wrote:Can this ever change?
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