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Climate Change and ecological collapse
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RE: Climate Change and ecological collapse
(August 3, 2017 at 9:25 am)Court Jester Wrote: this Nobel Prize winning scientist would call it simply an opinion. And a bad opinion at that....
http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/07/06/n...l-warming/

Well it doesn't mean that if somebody is Nobel Prize winning scientist that he can't be bought. Doesn't it? One of the ways is to look at what the guy is saying and in his case it doesn't make any sense like sometimes he says that temperature is not getting higher and other times he says that it is but that it is a good thing.

Or this article claims  "More than 100 scientists rebuke Obama as ‘simply incorrect’ on global warming" - no doubt another "Oregon Petition"

But this is straight giveaway: “If you want to help Africa, help them out of poverty, do not try to build solar cells and windmills,”

How the fuck does this makes sense? In one breath this asshole is claiming that people are so hysteric about global warming but then he goes totally batshit crazy about solar cells and windmills. I mean even if you are think that there is no global warming you have to be total asshole not to see how oil is cause of devastation for countries that have it. So yeah if you want to help Africa it would be best to use solar cells and not fucking oil. I mean take Nigeria. Oil has been a burning political issue since the Nigerian civil war of 1967-70, which almost ripped the country apart, causing up to a million war-related deaths and displacing some 6 million people. Since the war, Nigeria has remained in a state of suppressed and repressive violence, punctured by periodic outbreaks of actual violence, some causing significant casualties and making thousands refugees in their own country. Shell and other oil majors have forged close alliances with Nigeria's ruling classes, including its military dictatorships. Little of the oil revenue has been invested in the communities in the Niger Delta, where most oil is produced. These communities have born the brunt of the extensive environmental damage from oil extraction, and have become increasingly alienated from the oil companies and from the government.

So unless you're totally retarded or on oil Exxon's payroll you can say that to help Africa is to use more oil.

Or take country that is on second largest oil deposit in the world - you guessed it Iraq. You can see how usual tactic goes: embeddedness of violence in different social relations and the gradual disintegration of the state under the impact of globalization. Under these conditions, when authoritarian states collapse, the state itself loses the monopoly of force and law ceases to exist, to be replaced by privatized violence, private profit, growing linkages between the two, and the spread of crime and disorder aimed at ordinary civilians. US government officials planned the war in Iraq to overwhelm an enemy, re-establish centralized authority and gain immediate control over the country’s chief resource.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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Climate Change and ecological collapse - by ph445 - July 23, 2017 at 10:07 am
RE: Climate Change and ecological collapse - by tjakey - July 23, 2017 at 11:25 am
RE: Climate Change and ecological collapse - by ph445 - July 23, 2017 at 11:35 am
RE: Climate Change and ecological collapse - by brewer - July 23, 2017 at 11:35 am
RE: Climate Change and ecological collapse - by vorlon13 - August 1, 2017 at 3:45 pm
RE: Climate Change and ecological collapse - by vorlon13 - August 1, 2017 at 3:51 pm
RE: Climate Change and ecological collapse - by Succubus - August 2, 2017 at 6:47 pm
RE: Climate Change and ecological collapse - by vorlon13 - August 1, 2017 at 9:34 pm
RE: Climate Change and ecological collapse - by Fake Messiah - August 3, 2017 at 1:27 pm

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