Cog wrote:. Unlike the dinosaurs, mammals are very adaptable to changes in climate.
GASMON wrote:Cog wrote:You do realize that mammals originated some 200 million years ago? Mammals have live through extinction level events, ice ages, global warming, and everything the planet could throw at them. I like our chances. Unlike the dinosaurs, mammals are very adaptable to changes in climate.
Mammals suck !!!!!!!!!!
Gas
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.
Tanada wrote:-snip-
That is why they come equipped with mammary glands, is it not
Outcast_Searcher wrote:And a solid work ethic would be good.
AdTheNad wrote:And you were outcompeting people when the bar was very very low. At a time when a drop out could earn enough on one salary to raise a family. Try to do that today and you will be so poor you might well splurge on avocado toast to distract yourself from the climate change and peak oil knightmares fast approaching.
Subjectivist wrote:What a silly statement, you could employ everyone in low carbon work without detrimental impact on the environment. Quite the contrary in fact, you could employ thousands to collect trash laying around outside, hand decnstruction of abandond buildings and restoring the lots to green field status, even things like visiting the elderly in nursing homes and reading to kids in the park. Work doesn't have to mean operating a big polluting piece of machinery or practicing law to protect polluters.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:AdTheNad wrote:And you were outcompeting people when the bar was very very low. At a time when a drop out could earn enough on one salary to raise a family. Try to do that today and you will be so poor you might well splurge on avocado toast to distract yourself from the climate change and peak oil knightmares fast approaching.
Ah, the fact free nonsense flows so freely from this one.
The median family income in the US was over $60,000 in 2017.
There are roughly $1 trillion in federal transfer payments annually, mostly to help "the poor". Add to that huge amounts of state and local programs, all the private/charitable programs. Consider the strong push to raise the minimum wage to $15 (which is causing a LOT of recent minimum wage raises in cities and in companies) -- whether the local cost of living justifies it or not.
You're not talking true poverty in the vast majority of cases -- you're playing the "relative poverty is unfair" game. Everyone in the first world not having all the toys, McMansions, new cars, etc. they "want" is NOT poverty.
Some on this site used to like to claim that lots of children were starving to death in the US. Aside from the occasional drug-addled mother who refuses to feed her kids (which will be fixed as soon as the government is made aware of the situation) -- I don't think so.
Cog wrote:So you want government to take over running corporations? Hmm I'm trying to remember the name of the type of system that is.
KaiserJeep wrote:I have a somewhat different view. I consider the approaching crisis to be a Darwinian opportunity. If your genes are more suited to survive human overshoot, then they will, while those less prepared to cope will perish.
I will take up arms before I let either the Feds or the State rule my life. I believe that the human race as always will live or die as individuals making individual decisions. That is all there is or ever will be.
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