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:Look them right in the eye, tell them you did the best you could and challenge them to do even better. Don't go all Guy MacPherson on them, that road leads to hopelessness and accomplishes nothing.
Cid_Yama wrote:In the STNG episode 'The Inner Light", Picard finds himself living the life of Kalin, a man on a planet that is dying, a terminally warming world. His daughter, who has grown up with him conducting science, knows as well as him that the microbes in the soil, necessary to life, are dead or dying, and she broaches the subject.
He tells her he should not have raised her with science but should have filled her head with frivolities. She replies, "you don't mean that, father," to which he responds, "No, but I hate to see you burdened with this knowledge." To which she replies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvOYMgk2_HE
PeterEV wrote:Picture a "never-ending" hot shower on a really cold day, a warm house, with hot bacon and eggs on the table, a side of toast and a hot cup of coffee almost too hot to drink. Food safely stored in a cold refrigerator. A few steps and you can retrieve a carton of milk.
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Picture your arms not sticking to a desk or table when the dew point reaches 70 degrees F. Being a able to sleep in a cool room on a hot muggy night. We were selfish but enjoyed the hell out of it. We thought we earned that right because we all had worked "together" in some degree to help each other out. The amenities of our civilizations were our reward.
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Take your pick of today's problems and let's see what we can do to solve them. If you sit on your butt and babble, you're not going to get anything done. Learn to ask good questions, listen carefully, and try to discern good information from the bad and especially from the dangerous.
ennui2 wrote:Cid_Yama wrote:In the STNG episode 'The Inner Light", Picard finds himself living the life of Kalin, a man on a planet that is dying, a terminally warming world. His daughter, who has grown up with him conducting science, knows as well as him that the microbes in the soil, necessary to life, are dead or dying, and she broaches the subject.
He tells her he should not have raised her with science but should have filled her head with frivolities. She replies, "you don't mean that, father," to which he responds, "No, but I hate to see you burdened with this knowledge." To which she replies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvOYMgk2_HE
I don't remember any reference to global warming in that episode. That's not what the episode was about.
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