they mostly come at night, mostly.
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
they mostly come at night, mostly.
Written by: FireTom
If people just cease to buy environmentally hostile goods AND from companies who try to whitewash their ecological sins, then companies will reconsider as well.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
they mostly come at night, mostly.
they mostly come at night, mostly.
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
they mostly come at night, mostly.
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Written by: FireTom
True - ppl would be far more willing to spend MORE money on "environmentally friendly" goods than spending LESS money on "hostile" goods...
There is a slight possibility that I am not actually right all of the time.
POI THEO(R)IST
you just lost the game!!!!!! !!!!!
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the best smiles are the ones you lead to
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in the grand scale of things do you really think that what we do now will destroy or severely damage the things? it might mess things up a bit but i a few million years or however long the world will level itself out again.
It is our fantasies that make us real. Without our fantasies we're just a blank monkey' - Terry Pratchett
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Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind....
Bob Dylan
Written by: duballstarWritten by: fake teeth and glue
in the grand scale of things do you really think that what we do now will destroy or severely damage the things? it might mess things up a bit but i a few million years or however long the world will level itself out again.
Well, in the grand scale of things the Earth is a pretty tiny dot. However, it is the only dot so far on which we have found life. And not just simple bacteria, but a rich vibrant plethora of biodiversity. This, in my opinion, is extremely significant.
Yes, the Earth works in cycles. It has hot phases and cooling phases. In between life thrives. We are in one of these stages at the moment.
However, the Earth is getting older and the Sun, hotter. Earth is becoming less able to re-couperate from hot phases. We may not see another ice age. As the seas get hotter, they too become less able to maintain life. It is thought that if we heat the Earth 6 degrees centegrade further, life may struggle to survive at all. The hotter it gets, the faster it gets hotter. We may see this rise in the next 100 years if we carry on as we have done.
This is all, of course, not to mention the floods, droughts, famines, wars, mass migration and complete chaos which we are likely to see in our own lifetime if the planet heats above another 2-3 degrees centegrade.
It is all very well to sit around thinking it's somebody else's problem, but when the global economy collapses and most of the world's population start moving North or killing each other, and your house finds itself 3 metres underwater cos the ice caps have melted, it'll be really easy to stay detached won't it?
Insignificant as we may be, I would not like to see this suffering inflicted on the human race or any other life on Earth. What we have is precious. It is our duty as sentient beings to preserve the fragile living world that exists on this unique bit of rock, if not for the sake of others then at the very least for ourseleves.
$4500 is really not a lot of money to pay for a solar heater if you think how much you'd spend on a car, or even a holiday.
Planet Earth truly is priceless.
You might want to try these books:
Heat - Georges Monbiot
Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock
Six Degrees - Mark Lynas
Or this comic:
Funny Weather - Kate Evans
And then this:
I Count - How to Stop Climate Chaos
PS. If you really want to get into the what is normal or 'in the grand scale of things' debate, you might want to consider that both the scale and conditions for 'normal' are set in your own head. In these terms, global warming is likley to turn 'normal' completely on its head for you in a grand scale.
you just lost the game!!!!!! !!!!!
knowledge is power, power corupts, study hard, become evil.
It is our fantasies that make us real. Without our fantasies we're just a blank monkey' - Terry Pratchett
you just lost the game!!!!!! !!!!!
knowledge is power, power corupts, study hard, become evil.