Senator Bernie Sanders: “We cannot go too far on climate change.”So why have children? After all humanity will be extinct in 12 years, or at best on an irreversible path to catastrophe. Life will be horrible for the children up to the mass extinction of humankind in or around 2030.
Illness, respiratory problems, malnutrition, crime, pollution. Toxic air, oceans rising, plague and pestilence visit the masses, life is not worth living. Cows farting and belching all over the place and humans defecating, it will be Armageddon. Criminals
driving SUVs, Nazis with charcoal grills, Fascists with plastic shopping bags, Sadists with paper Starbucks cups, cannibals who eat beef/pork, social deviants who drink milk and eat cheese… the end is near.
We were promised that AIDS was going to jump to heterosexuals, and when it did, if we did not spend billions on AIDS research before then life would end by 1989. Bird flu/swine flu were going to jump species and the world would end in the 1990s. Ebola, global cooling, global warming, the hole in the ozone layer, were going to destroy us all by a date certain.
driving SUVs, Nazis with charcoal grills, Fascists with plastic shopping bags, Sadists with paper Starbucks cups, cannibals who eat beef/pork, social deviants who drink milk and eat cheese… the end is near.
We were promised that AIDS was going to jump to heterosexuals, and when it did, if we did not spend billions on AIDS research before then life would end by 1989. Bird flu/swine flu were going to jump species and the world would end in the 1990s. Ebola, global cooling, global warming, the hole in the ozone layer, were going to destroy us all by a date certain.
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President Al Gore promised that the polar ice caps would melt, drowning polar bears flooding New York, and starting irrevocable destruction of the entire human race by 2013 or 2014, and he got rich doing it.
My God why go on? Oh, it is 2019. Oops, no problem, they just add 12 years to the end of the world date and keep folks panicked and the cash flowing. A quick count of the end of the world predictions are very far north of 180 in world history, and surprise! Humans are still here.
A very liberal friend told me that no matter the dates for the age of destruction have passed, what if one of the predictions were correct? We cannot afford to ignore any of them. Heads I win tails you lose, predictions of the end of the Earth have been around since the beginning of time.
The more likely events that would destroy humanity as we know it are a massive nuclear exchange, an electromagnetic pulse attack, or a solar flare. Why are they ignored by the end of the world media? Could it be the profit motivation? A person can get a very good job in the very fashionable global climate change industry, but those who advocate that man-made global climate change is not an “end of the world in a decade” scenario do not get professorships or lucrative book deals. For good paying jobs, only the converted and true believers need apply.
Let’s not forget the carbon offset industry, with people/corporations paying for
forgiveness/absolution from climate sins; pollute all you want, just pay us first.
President Al Gore promised that the polar ice caps would melt, drowning polar bears flooding New York, and starting irrevocable destruction of the entire human race by 2013 or 2014, and he got rich doing it.
My God why go on? Oh, it is 2019. Oops, no problem, they just add 12 years to the end of the world date and keep folks panicked and the cash flowing. A quick count of the end of the world predictions are very far north of 180 in world history, and surprise! Humans are still here.
A very liberal friend told me that no matter the dates for the age of destruction have passed, what if one of the predictions were correct? We cannot afford to ignore any of them. Heads I win tails you lose, predictions of the end of the Earth have been around since the beginning of time.
The more likely events that would destroy humanity as we know it are a massive nuclear exchange, an electromagnetic pulse attack, or a solar flare. Why are they ignored by the end of the world media? Could it be the profit motivation? A person can get a very good job in the very fashionable global climate change industry, but those who advocate that man-made global climate change is not an “end of the world in a decade” scenario do not get professorships or lucrative book deals. For good paying jobs, only the converted and true believers need apply.Let’s not forget the carbon offset industry, with people/corporations paying for
forgiveness/absolution from climate sins; pollute all you want, just pay us first.
If we question the global climate change zealots, we are “climate change deniers” and painfully stupid.Time after time the assumptions factored into the global warming/cooling/ozone hole/global pandemic computer models have been wrong. Not a problem, they just add a few new assumptions to bring the computer in line with their canned assumptions and keep predicting the end of humanity in 10 to 16 years from the current date.
In 1978 I was speaking with the New York side of our family and the issue de jour was global cooling; global cooling was a fact and I was stupid to question it, OK. The point was that the science in 1978 was so far advanced we could not question it, OK.
In 1978 I was speaking with the New York side of our family and the issue de jour was global cooling; global cooling was a fact and I was stupid to question it, OK. The point was that the science in 1978 was so far advanced we could not question it, OK.
All the other predictions of the end of humankind did not have the advanced systems to gather data, global cooling was settled science, OK. Perhaps, just perhaps, questioning the science is a part of the scientific process? Nah, we need to pay up and shut up, the end is near, repent but provide your credit card number first.
So how do the folks who predicted the global warming/cooling disasters and many other decades ago save face? How do they show their faces in the scientific community? No problem, they just roll it into the global climate change corporate model and keep cashing in. A full college professor teaching/investigating global climate change can make over $500,000 per year; Al Gore is worth over $300,000,000. Wikipedia, a motive? You decide.
So how do the folks who predicted the global warming/cooling disasters and many other decades ago save face? How do they show their faces in the scientific community? No problem, they just roll it into the global climate change corporate model and keep cashing in. A full college professor teaching/investigating global climate change can make over $500,000 per year; Al Gore is worth over $300,000,000. Wikipedia, a motive? You decide.
You nailed it Army Bob.
Terry Parks,
Thank you for the comment.
Army Bob
Very true…great article
Mr Smit,
Harry,
Thanks.
Bob,
Complete agreement with you but you forgot to mention the horror of plastic straws.
MacDougal,
Plastic straws are a curse on humanity, billions of tons of TNT are not as concerning? Go figure.
Thanks for the comment.
Plastic straws are a threat to innocent marine life. Abuse of the environment is a blight on humanity, and billions of tons of TNT are a complete abomination of the capabilities of the human mind. It’s all well and good to attempt to trivialize the concerns of others, but those concerns have validity in and of themselves whether one agrees or not.
Right now it is fair to assume that, as Faulkner wrote, earth will abide, and as Gloria Gaynor sang, we will survive. But such a cavalier attitude just might not continue to ring true if the human race, as a whole, continues to act as if nothing will have a cumulative effect on the planet and all its forms of life.
As my son reminds me far too often, we may actually deserve the extinction we seem hell bent on pursuing.
Meanwhile, unchecked capitalism runs amok in the quest for mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money.
Where is the balance in all things? Certainly not in the incessant bitching and moaning that takes the place of true action.
Please understand that I am not attacking specific personalities, only that prevalent tendency to ignore deeds versus complaints.
Ms. Mandeville,
Do you know what created the push to eliminate plastic straws?
It wasn’t a government study or some “scientist”, it was a Jr. High kid.
I would think plastic bags would be a much more insidious problem.
Capitalism has provided a pretty good living for you and your family, why do you and other Liberals hate it so?
Plastic straws serve as a metaphor for whatever manmade trash threatens animal and human existence. It is not meant to be taken literally. Plastic bags are, indeed, more insidious than straws.
How do you know whether or not capitalism has provided a “pretty good living” for me and my family? You know nothing about me. And why do you assume I hate it? I take exception to unchecked capitalism, just as I would to unchecked socialism.
You would be well advised to attempt some empathy so as to understand those with whom you disagree.
Ms. Mandeville
I think your observation that eliminating plastic drinking straws serves as a metaphor may be your understanding of the situation, but the eliminating plastic straws is a reality, not a figment of your imagination. Nor is it based in common sense, unless you are a paper straw manufacturer. How about eliminating straws altogether, problem solved!
No trash, nobody’s ox is being gored (metaphorically speaking) and life will be safe and wonderful.