Would somebody elect that guy president already?!?!?
Oh wait....
Anyway, I reckon this is going to be a fantastically witty and thoroughly educational movie. I wonder if the retards will wake up someday?
The end.
An inconvenient truth
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I think you should read Michael Crichton's State of Fear for a bit of the other side of this argument.
Not saying that things that reduce global emissions or our reliance on fosil fuels are bad... Im just saying that things like the glaciers melting might not be the problems the media is making them out to be.
Not saying that things that reduce global emissions or our reliance on fosil fuels are bad... Im just saying that things like the glaciers melting might not be the problems the media is making them out to be.
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Frankly, that is besides the point.
I have done plenty of reading on the subject and the issue of climate change is a very real and very dangerous concept that only the most ignorant of people undermine.
I don't necessarily feel that the author of the book "Jurassic park" is going to change my interpretation of scientific findings.
Nevertheless I will seek out the book you mention because frankly, I found Dostoyevsky's Crime and punishment to be an utter let down of literary accomplishment and I am hoping for a more fulfilling and enlightening read. (a discussion which no doubt could labour for months in the reading forum).
Whether or not this is some sort of "!OMG liberal media bias" or indeed some government rejection of spin and lies, the point is that the climate of this generations way of life is (at this point) undeniably under threat for reasons that no respected climatologist dare begin to refute. Ie - Lots of people will suffer and probably die. Sometime in our lifetime. Due to climate change and re-allignment of Earths natural temperal existance.
Sea levels will rise, temperatures will become more extreme, causing more famines and more cold, weather itself will become more extreme and general environmental stability will be lost.
Healthy skepticism is of course a very wise action that any intellectually minded human being must afford him/herself but I think that you Ransure, my friend, and I mean that, are absolutely and inexcusably missing the point.
Whether or not climate change will destroy my way of life or your own remains to be seen, there are however a couple of hundred million people living on low ground and precarious ecosystem's throughout the planet which we all we share that WILL (scientifically undeniably) be gradually if not immediately affected by global warming's turbulent changes.
You should care about that if you percieve yourself to be a socially minded and warm blooded human being.
If however, you don't perceive yourself to be a creature that embraces the very planet which has facilitated your own existance, then of course feel free to join the throngs of ignorant fuckwits who embrace destruction and perversion of their own embryonic facilitation.
The re-allignment of the Earths atmosphere towards a less hospitable living condition for humans is not something that anyone other than a complete moron is going to start dividing into some sort of party or political/media affiliation.
Then again, there are a lot of morons around.
Either way, you haven't seen this film (nor have I) so an immediate judgement from either of us is simply ridiculous and blindly assumptive in truth.
This film, one way or the other at least open's up the discussion on a wider scale than has previously been available for the average joe when in truth, debating the future make up of the Earth's atmosphere (of all things) is something that should be encouraged and not unfairly brought down to the level of the usual disgustingly ignorant semantics of faux profundity and pseudo realpolitik.
I seriously wonder sometimes how humans, with all their intellect and mental intricacy, can lose sight of such massively profound situations which threaten their very being.
Then again, maybe it's a natural cycle, whereby the Earth traverses the solar system whilst going through a periodic shift in temperature, nevertheless, if we are found to be contributing to an extreme (which is also undeniable at this point) that will be to the detriment of our existance, is it not wise to minimise our responsibility and effect on the very place that allows our ignorant minds to thrive?
There really is no excuse.
In other words, the time for semantics and discussion is well past and the importance of appropriating change and relevant discussion is now.
I have done plenty of reading on the subject and the issue of climate change is a very real and very dangerous concept that only the most ignorant of people undermine.
I don't necessarily feel that the author of the book "Jurassic park" is going to change my interpretation of scientific findings.
Nevertheless I will seek out the book you mention because frankly, I found Dostoyevsky's Crime and punishment to be an utter let down of literary accomplishment and I am hoping for a more fulfilling and enlightening read. (a discussion which no doubt could labour for months in the reading forum).
Whether or not this is some sort of "!OMG liberal media bias" or indeed some government rejection of spin and lies, the point is that the climate of this generations way of life is (at this point) undeniably under threat for reasons that no respected climatologist dare begin to refute. Ie - Lots of people will suffer and probably die. Sometime in our lifetime. Due to climate change and re-allignment of Earths natural temperal existance.
Sea levels will rise, temperatures will become more extreme, causing more famines and more cold, weather itself will become more extreme and general environmental stability will be lost.
Healthy skepticism is of course a very wise action that any intellectually minded human being must afford him/herself but I think that you Ransure, my friend, and I mean that, are absolutely and inexcusably missing the point.
Whether or not climate change will destroy my way of life or your own remains to be seen, there are however a couple of hundred million people living on low ground and precarious ecosystem's throughout the planet which we all we share that WILL (scientifically undeniably) be gradually if not immediately affected by global warming's turbulent changes.
You should care about that if you percieve yourself to be a socially minded and warm blooded human being.
If however, you don't perceive yourself to be a creature that embraces the very planet which has facilitated your own existance, then of course feel free to join the throngs of ignorant fuckwits who embrace destruction and perversion of their own embryonic facilitation.
The re-allignment of the Earths atmosphere towards a less hospitable living condition for humans is not something that anyone other than a complete moron is going to start dividing into some sort of party or political/media affiliation.
Then again, there are a lot of morons around.
Either way, you haven't seen this film (nor have I) so an immediate judgement from either of us is simply ridiculous and blindly assumptive in truth.
This film, one way or the other at least open's up the discussion on a wider scale than has previously been available for the average joe when in truth, debating the future make up of the Earth's atmosphere (of all things) is something that should be encouraged and not unfairly brought down to the level of the usual disgustingly ignorant semantics of faux profundity and pseudo realpolitik.
I seriously wonder sometimes how humans, with all their intellect and mental intricacy, can lose sight of such massively profound situations which threaten their very being.
Then again, maybe it's a natural cycle, whereby the Earth traverses the solar system whilst going through a periodic shift in temperature, nevertheless, if we are found to be contributing to an extreme (which is also undeniable at this point) that will be to the detriment of our existance, is it not wise to minimise our responsibility and effect on the very place that allows our ignorant minds to thrive?
There really is no excuse.
In other words, the time for semantics and discussion is well past and the importance of appropriating change and relevant discussion is now.
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