Posts by Steve Barnes
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WE have badgers of authority, yes we do, bedda believe it, yessiree.
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back atcha, badger..
Sometimes a little P is not enough.
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I've always thought that there would be a crucial point when there would be a GM technology whose environmental benefits were so compelling that people "GE free" people would have to choose.
"Ah Dr. Zoidberg you have made a bacteria that will eat all the co2"
"Yes Fry, but all the trees have died and you're tuning blue"
Futurama moment. -
I will no doubt find cackling PhD students force-feeding puffer fish to sea slugs, then mailing them to Auckland in a calculated campaign of eco-terrorism.
I suggest phone Mr. Wishart. Unless, of course, he's already on to it.
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Who is the 'we' in the above?
It sure ain't Sofies .We.
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our god (which i do not quite believe, for god plainly emerges, in a word, from what is *not* consumed)
So. You're saying God is shit?.
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What I was going to say was.
Woof.
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Much as I'm interested in the global economic arguments, I just can't get past the "I don't believe the cause of the supposed global warming is human". It makes me think we have little to say to each other.
Lyndon. I would disagree that we have little to say. There are always, at least, two sides to any point of view.
My feeling, it is just a feeling (but then I am Human), is that when you actually look at the overall picture, when you fly for hours over uninhabited (by humans) land and ocean, you can see how insignificant we humans actually are. Ok, so you can look down from your globally polluting 747 and see vast swathes of unadulterated nature.
I guess the real point is how important is the consumer driven commercialism that has been the god of choice since the last global war?
How important is our, supposed, need for gratification.
Shit, if life was so much fun why isn't everybody living it?
Nobody said it was easy, you have to work hard, you have to earn a living.
Geez, my dog has a better life than I do in that respect.
Now. As I was saying...
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- thanks so much for the link to "The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See" - I cannot believe I've never seen it before. Completely brilliant.
Now I'll have to see if I can find a climate change sceptic to try it out on.Well, the usual suspect turned up, Bremner that is and I don't necessarily disagree with some of what he says... for a change.
The fact is that I don't believe the cause of the supposed global warming is human.
We need less crap in our atmosphere yes. We need less crap anywhere on our planet and there is nothing wrong in doing better. Problem is, as James alluded to, we here in NZ can cut back emissions, spend billions on climate change solutions and still the world could go to hell in a handbasket.
Why? OK let us see.
If the increase in CO2 is persistent, regardless of our globally insignificant decrease in output, we will, or our grandchildren will, be faced with a world with more CO2 than we have now. So what? The models are not reliable enough to give us a picture of the actual effects so why would a profit driven world give a danm? Oh yeah, Carbon Credits, what a scam.
The developing world has nothing to gain in "playing the game". Many of the people in the under developed world have little expectancy of a better life without full ahead development so why should they put the breaks on their future for the sake of a bunch of middle class white people? Any "savings made by little New Zealand fade into nothing besides that fact.
Natural events create more CO2 than Humans so once again, Any "savings" made by little New Zealand fade into nothing beside that fact.
We, as a race (human that is) have survived worse conditions in the past with little or no technology, if the worst comes to the worst then we will survive and live in a way that would be seen as luxury by many in the third world.
The more I think about the problem and its solutions the more I see a corrupt western world squeezing the last drops of resources from the poor and then getting the underdog pay for the gluttony of the perpetrators.
Ask a refugee of war or a family starving due to crop failure if they are worried about Global Warming.
Greed, as always, is the problem. If we spent more time and effort eliminating poverty instead of telling frightening stories about how the middle class will suffer then the "problem" of Global warming will become as insignificant as our contribution to its elimination.