Desireless (Kebir Blue)

I have a great way to lock up massive amounts of carbon to prevent global warming.

Cut down the rain-forests. Replace them with asphalt.

"Tore down paradise, put up a parking lot oooooooo park park park park ooooooo park park park park"

Rofl

I started playing simcountry to fight capitalists who denied the effects of their actions on Mother Nature.
Hows this for uncanny?

I found this about a possible Eden Project in China:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-12769679

Paste it into google and read the bit on 'smart people'.

Here, if you can't bring it up, is part of the article:
'Smart people'
He said the Singapore project would be like an interactive computer experience in which people could make decisions about the island's ecology and habitat.

He compared it to the popular Sim Country computer game.

"We want to create a living Sim Country for them and their scientific community."

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I think your all bitches

fuck the communists!!!

For once I actually agree with Nix on this one.

What is proposed (I dont know the full bill) is absolute lunacy.

@ gunther: ditto on commies, lol. Nix, not all capitalists want to turn the earth into a CO2-saturated desert full of radioactive toxic waste dumps. As for Brasil, having lived there several years, you might be surprised to know that the current head of state is a radical socialist, who was a card-carrying communist activist in the past. Unless things have changed, and I don't know whether they have or not, Brasil's politicians are prone to flamboyant, outrageous propositions which they have no intention of implementing, to gain attention. They will never clear-cut the rain forest; in future, they may use it as a bargaining chip on the world economic stage, and this the wind-up.
Personally, I am what would probably be labeled as a right-wing capitalist extremist gun-totin', cope-chewin', heterosexual, red-blooded , freedom-loving American man. Come to think of it, that's exactly what I am, and --I-- am against clearcutting the rain forest. So there

The Global temperature of earth has always changed through out the history of the planet. Humans may have accelerated the average global temperature but are not solely responsibly. It is likely that the temperature of the earth would have still increased but not as much as it has done.

Also I believe that there is no need to worry because with the advances in science and technology we will soon be able to control the weather and the global average temperature on earth.

Lol, but would we be able to find all the rare species often giving up secrets to important medicines and technology and the million other fascinating things the forest has hidden in it?

No, I didnt think so.

Very good point Crafty. Lord Lee we don't have time. You can spend hours building a domino run but once the first one is pushed it only takes seconds for them all to fall.
So now its happening (Mother Nature is dying) who still thinks its lies? If you do I will make you pay for your ignorance by destroying your game! I'm sick of those who choose to deny instead of making the sacrifices needed to ensure our future generations have what we had......a life worth living. And to the Coalition of Capitalist Tree haters I'm ready for round 2 if you don't like what I'm saying....Bring it

Going green is just a new religion for liberals. Waste of real assets, time, Money.
Rob

Ok Pink panther that is all I needed to hear

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Out of curiosity, whatever happened with this threat?

i can piss on you all if that'll help.

Fear mongers, a group of people who use pseudo-science to strike fear into the masses to make massive profits.
In the 60s and 70s it was the threat of worldwide nuclear war, in the 80s we were on the verge of an Ice Age, then Global Warming and now Climatic Change.
Look at the people who feed the fear, Al Gore for instance, before his Global Warming film he was worth about 1.7 Mil, now 200 Mil...
The average temperature of the earth has been estimated to have increase somewhere between .7 and 1.7 degrees in the last 100 years. We are in the Tropical Period of the Ice Age cycle, temperatures are supposed to go up. Also note that the average temperature of Mars has gone up about the same, are we to blame for that as well?

The threat of nuclear war was very real though...

The Earth is gonna die no matter what we do, it's always gonna die, you can get rid of the industry and let the Ozone layer repair it's self, The world will still die. It's a scientific fact that is a few billion years the sun will explode destroying everything from Mercury to Pluto and even further, THE WORLD WILL DIE. Nasa is already beginning recruitment processes to colonize Mars, eventually we will fully colonize it and our great great (great[for some of you]) will be able to go there for vacation or something, and will be colonizing other planets.

BTW for those that don't know, Swag was a group created in the sixties' Acronym for their name "Secretly we are gay" and they don't mean the happy gay, as they were all homosexual in the group. Oh and please someone don't call me Homophobic cause i'm not.... to an extent.

Calm me crazy, but I would much rather live the remaining years of my life in quality than to live in overindulgence and dying significantly earlier from OD. That's the choice of any rational being, that's the choice of any rational society.

We need a meme for "no crackpot theories allowed".

Yeah Dboyd what you forgot to mention about your fact there that is most of that increase has happened since 1979 (.72 deg increase) now that may not sound like a lot but it is the difference between freezing and melting. Much of the permafrost up north is trapping methane, and when it thaws releases the gas. To say that everything dies like Cam does is a waste of time because it is logically moronic to make your current habits and POV on such a philosophy. Similarly the argument that this is some liberal plot is avoiding the issue, similar logic in the idea that Al Gore is only in it for the money. The issue is greater than your view on Gore and liberals as more massive storms pick up more water and drown out our food supply and ruin our infrastructure. I hope Brazil doesn't cut down the rain forest for timber. While it is easy for us to say it is looney to worry about something so far away or something that has an unclear or indirect correlation, we need to do what we can now to preserve our world for our children. I suggest you educate yourselves to this topic and stop being dismissive. You can change a little and effect a lot such as using public transport more, using less energy, and choosing to buy sustainable products not made from brazilian wood. Becoming an informed consumer is the first step.

Human existance is such a brief speck in time and space that we might as well be a singularity. Hence to consider that we can have any influence on the picosecond of time we occupy is completely irrational.

This leads me to believe that, in the human time frame, the urge to live benevolently must be down to some deep rooted guilt for any of our actions. Well, guilt is not nature, it's nurture, so the question to ask is: who or what is instilling this guilt?

Antonio, I can assure you those early posts were using an entirely different meaning of swag... one that you can find in a dictionary.

We should totally throw the third world under the bus to save the environment. That's probably a few billion less people damaging the environment... and I've never liked those BRs. Stop them from developing!

Re: the death of Earth due to expansion of the sun: Keep in mind that once the sun expands, it will eventually turn Mars into a cinder as well. For that matter, the only way to escape is to get to another star system altogether. But wait! EVENTUALLY that star will also either go nova or go Red Giant, thus the scenario repeats itself. The only solution seems to be to keep on the run from star to star, staying one jump ahead of catastrophe. But wait! The universe will EVENTUALLY end when entropy finally completes its rundown cycle, so all life is totally doomed anyway, eventually. Say a few hundred billion years, give or take...

human culture instills this guilt crafty

Hi T_Mac. Facts are ignored by this lot. I think it scares them too much. They know that if they accept these facts they will have to change their way of thinking. Then they will have to change their way of life. And to them, that flies in the face of freedom. Even though we are Guardians first and free second. The soldiers of the great wars must be turning in their graves at the lack of responsibility and sacrifice by alot of the last two generations. Hi to you all. Hope all is good. Helloa Serpent. Spring is here and I have little time. When I have a spare month I'll send him a PM to see if he is for real. Hi Antonio. Is that what your gonna tell your Grandchildren when they ask you if you helped to save their Natural World? 'I did nothing cus the worlds gonna die in a couple of billion years anyway' How do you think they are gonna feel about you?