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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17980 on: 07/03/2021 16:09:16 »
Providing we all had a real democracy. But we don't, instead we have hierarchies, elites and 'leaders'. And our game.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17981 on: 07/03/2021 17:00:53 »
Disclaimer


All of this formulated under the assumption that you are sane of mind, able to follow a logic.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17982 on: 07/03/2021 17:06:05 »
Yeah, I know, that was a evil joke. But considering how our world looks today I felt it needed to be added.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17983 on: 07/03/2021 18:11:44 »
USA:s new doctrine of 'limited nuclear warfare' described, although not in the detail I would prefer. It's a new way of making war bearable without coffins coming home. F.ex perfect for staging a war in Iran. Doing it right there shouldn't be much left to see afterwards either. So some few coffins needed there too.  Very economical.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2019.1701286

Rubble and maybe some bones.

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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17984 on: 07/03/2021 22:09:24 »
If I may summarize it. You're on a road to extinction.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/07/ten-grim-lessons-the-world-has-learned-from-a-decade-of-war-in-syria
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17985 on: 07/03/2021 22:39:50 »
Are you a computer, programmed to generate posts?
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17986 on: 08/03/2021 10:03:01 »
So you find me to have computer like powers Charles? 
Might be my imagination but I'm starting to feel like you're stalking?

That's not okay with TNS
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17987 on: 08/03/2021 10:09:16 »
I call the game weighted, it was created to be weighted. Politically and financially.
So we might not get out of fossils, or rather, we won't. But what would happen if we did?

Well  "The system is so flawed that lawyers are calling the system “a Russian roulette”, or a “historical mistake”. A previous report labelled the ECT as the “world’s most dangerous investment treaty.” "

We would be sued.

http://priceofoil.org/2021/02/23/secretive-treaty-allows-big-oil-to-sue-for-hundreds-of-billions-to-stop-fossil-fuel-phase-out/
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17988 on: 08/03/2021 10:11:18 »
Yeah.
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« Reply #17989 on: 08/03/2021 10:13:52 »
If you want a transition fossils have to be banned, today. You won't change a thing without that.
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« Reply #17990 on: 08/03/2021 10:14:51 »
And you have to look over your laws, and make sure responsibility exist under them.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17991 on: 08/03/2021 10:16:38 »
Not the responsibility to get out of our responsibility though :)
The opposite.

Yeah, it would be funny if it wasn't true.


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« Reply #17992 on: 08/03/2021 10:31:05 »
So I don't really want to be a doomsayer. But for each year passing it's getting harder not to be one. And the reason why has to be you. the laws existing are yours, even if they was passed due to your inaction.
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« Reply #17993 on: 08/03/2021 10:40:19 »
some years ago I think I stated that we should be around 2.5 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. My pointy hat seems to be pretty good. This report states it as 3 degrees Celcius. And if you understand that we already are in a unstable regime when it comes to global warming and its effects you also should understand that a 'tipping' or 'tippings' already are here. It's a combination of global warming and the rest of our mistakes.

I'm going to link a summary, and if you want the full report I'll leave it under the first.

" Making Peace With Nature: 

A scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies This new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) lays out the gravity of Earth’s triple environmental emergencies – climate, biodiversity loss and pollution – through a unique synthesis of findings from major global assessments, including those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, as well as UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook report, the UNEP International Resource Panel, and new findings on the emergence of zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19. "

Key messages.   https://wedocs.unep.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/35114/MPNKM.pdf

site   https://www.unep.org/resources/making-peace-nature


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« Reply #17994 on: 08/03/2021 10:44:52 »
And how do you change your laws? I would suggest getting that democracy I'm discussing first.
You won't change them as long as the game is weighted.
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« Reply #17995 on: 08/03/2021 10:59:15 »
It sux, doesn't it?  You have your geopolitics and your real politk. You have your political parties, and their 'ideologies'. You have your prominent clowns presenting 'facts' and a 'green future'. you have it all, except the truth.
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« Reply #17996 on: 08/03/2021 11:00:15 »
And you don't like the truth, so you want to ignore it. And in the case it become impossible to ignore you will leave it to your clowns to fix it.
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« Reply #17997 on: 08/03/2021 11:04:00 »
What you're doing here is to take no responsibility for anything. With your clowns being much the same. They have more to lose so the laws are constructed to protect them, they also have a greater influence on how they should be written, and interpreted. The game is based on inequality generating profits.
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« Reply #17998 on: 08/03/2021 11:05:34 »
You can't stop the reports though, what you can do is to ignore them.
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« Reply #17999 on: 08/03/2021 11:13:09 »
you need to stop playing this game. You need a clean break with all 'real politik'. You need trust instead of distrust. You need to become clean.
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