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09-23-2019, 04:14 PM #1601Funky But Chic
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2019: Rocks still smarter than ggstinx.
well that one came true.
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09-23-2019, 04:23 PM #1602
Worst case scenario if we do nothing: terribly uninhabitable (for humans) planet.
Worst case scenario if we act: slightly depressed economic growth with long term payback through efficiency
Choice is fucking easy morans
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09-23-2019, 04:36 PM #1603
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09-23-2019, 04:39 PM #1604
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09-23-2019, 04:39 PM #1605
There's really only one way to reduce pollution.
But exterminating half the worlds population is a hard sell.
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09-23-2019, 04:47 PM #1606
^^^ That will come to pass if nothing changes. Probably not in my lifetime but the course we (humans) are on has one final result.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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09-23-2019, 04:52 PM #1607
We can't let anymore people start living a 1st world lifestyle.
www.apriliaforum.com
"If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?
"I have no idea what I am talking about but would be happy to share my biased opinions as fact on the matter. "
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09-23-2019, 04:55 PM #1608
A cursory look says the developing world gets a larger % of it's energy from renewables than the developed world.
https://sustainablebrands.com/read/c...newable-energy
https://www.enelgreenpower.com/stori...ainable-future
https://www.irena.org/newsroom/press...Power-Capacity
https://ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy
The solutions are not intractable.
Still, I'm tinkering with trying to make a "flu-bola" virus with the transmissibility of the Flu and the virulence of Ebola.Move upside and let the man go through...
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09-23-2019, 05:07 PM #1609
Oo, nice! The infectious disease solution
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09-23-2019, 05:09 PM #1610
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09-23-2019, 05:28 PM #1611I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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09-23-2019, 05:51 PM #1612
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09-23-2019, 06:00 PM #1613
Yeah, I mean why even try? If that's truly your attitude, then at least get out of the way and stop voting/fighting it so others can spend their days trying to make a better world rather than wallowing in self-defeat.
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09-23-2019, 06:07 PM #1614Banned
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09-23-2019, 06:17 PM #1615
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09-23-2019, 06:36 PM #1616
Greta scolding the world leaders was awesome.
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09-23-2019, 06:38 PM #1617
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09-23-2019, 06:42 PM #1618
Just imagine how much more totally fucked up our air, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc would be if everyone had been taking this attitude all along instead of making HUGE strides to clean shit up late 60s through the 1990s... Imagine if we just threw our hands in the air over leaded gas and can propellants??
People who say the planet is too big and complex to make better are either entitled little kids who weren't around in the early 70s to see how fucked up things were and how much progress we made to reverse many of those shitshows... Or, they're really entitled really rich folks who know they can just travel where and live however they want while the rest of humanity suffers the effects of this slow moving disaster..Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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09-23-2019, 06:44 PM #1619
An inconvenient truth is that a great many pension funds are tied to very carbon intensive companies around the world. If those boomers are lucky enough to be on those massive pension plans (teachers, health care workers, govt, municipal, etc), they will be very protective of that income.
Not being a denier, just acknowledging that the pain is going to be felt somewhere, and the stated solutions can not be downloaded on the poor and 3rd world suffering as they have traditionally born the burden of progress. And saying green tech will be the answer is not being well received by the managers of those massive funds. Shit like that going on in the Elon Musk thread for example.
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09-23-2019, 06:47 PM #1620Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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09-23-2019, 07:27 PM #1621
Will this occur within the next 20-30 yrs? Cause if not, that’s my pension you are talking about. Most boomers will be dead by then.
Just so I am not painting myself too harshly, I have been active in my pension fund investment direction when the opportunity exists to contribute, but I could and should do more in that regard. Most pensioners I know do nothing with respect to how their cheque gets delivered, unless it doesn’t.
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09-23-2019, 07:42 PM #1622
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09-23-2019, 08:25 PM #1623
Funny, just yesterday I was thinking about how bad car exhaust was in the late 60s/70s. I remember sitting in the car with my mom at the intersection of 130th & Aurora waiting for the light to change and looking at the massive amount of exhaust coming out of all the idling cars burning leaded gas. It used to billow out in thick clouds and just hang in the air.
I also remember Lake Washington smelling like a wet dog from all the sewage dumped into it.“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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09-23-2019, 08:49 PM #1624
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09-23-2019, 08:50 PM #1625Head down, push foreword
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I think that was oil. FWIG while leaded gas polluted a shit load more it does not cause visible particles aka smoke/clouds.
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