(December 31, 2010 at 9:54 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Hey, if you can do it through private charity that I'm not forced into donating to, go right ahead. I personally don't want my tax money wasted on things that haven't been properly investigated yet. The world I live in is clean enough for me at the moment, and the new advances of technology mean we get cleaner energy anyway. I don't see any evidence that we are heading for a disaster.
I'm sorry, but all the climate scientsts who aren't working for the people responsible for the problem are all agreeing that there is an enormous problem.
I don't think the planet is going to die, but there's plenty of evidence that a lot of people and ecosystems are going to crash and burn sometime within the next few generations thanks to everything.
Scientists have been aware of what's going on for more than three decades now.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
