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RE: Human rights for mother nature?
April 21, 2011 at 1:46 pm
PS - I have never said anything remotely sounding like climate denialism. I'm in school to be a horticulturalist, ffs. I sort of like the planet, considering it's my home here in the vastness of space and all.
It's the over-the-top language and human arrogance I think is ridiculous.
Here: I rag on conservatives all the time, but I equally loathe bleeding heart liberals who want to PC the place up and sit in drum circles singing kumbayah and pretending each tree has a dryad living in it. If the people who attend Earth Day rallies and "Save-the-Planet" gatherings are a measure of knowledge required to 'save' this floating blue ball, well...there's a lovely saying that goes "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
We have ways of eliminating or toning down the damage we DO inflict - but they're not politically expedient. That's partially an education problem, and partially an apathy problem, and I'd say a good deal a HUMAN problem because people who don't have enough to eat or barely a roof to sleep under, which is a good portion of the world's population, don't give a flying fuck what Al Gore has to say on energy usage.
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RE: Human rights for mother nature?
April 21, 2011 at 4:34 pm
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(April 21, 2011 at 8:18 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: Considering he gets his news from FOX, I'm not surprised to hear the apocalyptic-type warnings.
Don't you ever research on your own? This isn't just covered on fox, and by the way I never watch tv because it's all brainwashing propaganda. I found this article on another website but the webpage got dropped and I had to search for the infromation on google. Fox was just the first one to pop up so don't be a jerk about it.
Quote:It's the over-the-top language and human arrogance I think is ridiculous.
Funny, I feel the same way about you.
Animals are at peace with nature except for us. We need to learn a balance, we cant take everything we want to do as we please because eventually their will be nothing to take.
Quote:We have ways of eliminating or toning down the damage we DO inflict - but they're not politically expedient. That's partially an education problem, and partially an apathy problem, and I'd say a good deal a HUMAN problem because people who don't have enough to eat or barely a roof to sleep under, which is a good portion of the world's population, don't give a flying fuck what Al Gore has to say on energy usage.
we have ways of "limiting" the damage we inflict but we do damage the planet. We do have enough food, wealth and homes for everyone in the world but aslong as there are rich people there will be poor and suffereing people. People are starving in the world because their governments have control over all the resources and they don't like sharing otherwise they wouldn't be in power. Rich people live off the backs of many poor and they don't give a shit otherwise they wouldn't be rich.
Anyways it doesn't matter, your better off rich and guilty then poor and innocent.
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RE: Human rights for mother nature?
April 21, 2011 at 4:44 pm
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April 21, 2011 at 5:03 pm
i think the problem is simply that the world is completely overpopulated.
with the enormous amount of people in the world it's no wonder we're overconsuming everything imaginable, oil, food, forests, metals etc.
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April 21, 2011 at 5:07 pm
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RE: Human rights for mother nature?
April 21, 2011 at 5:07 pm
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The viable parts of the world are overpopulated. No one wants to move to the ones that are less viable, for obvious reasons.
We're in need of solidarity and creativity.
(April 21, 2011 at 5:07 pm)JohnDG Wrote: Oh so us american's are considered obese for no reason then. Thank you for letting me know that it was just a stereo type and that most of the overwieght people I see are like that naturally.
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April 21, 2011 at 5:18 pm
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(April 21, 2011 at 5:07 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: (April 21, 2011 at 5:07 pm)JohnDG Wrote: Oh so us american's are considered obese for no reason then. Thank you for letting me know that it was just a stereo type and that most of the overwieght people I see are like that naturally.
[sniff sniff]
Please tell me that's not the faint odor of red herring I'm smelling?
Sorry it must be you, because I don't eat fish. It's horrible, make's me sick.
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April 22, 2011 at 4:26 am
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