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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17320 on: 19/02/2021 12:35:36 »
We're getting so good at documenting our extinction.
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« Reply #17321 on: 19/02/2021 12:38:41 »
One of the things we should do with all this documentation is to 'time capsule' it. For those other species coming after us. To give them a chance of not mimicking our mistakes..
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17322 on: 19/02/2021 12:51:30 »
And why I am so negative about it all is because of the trends I see, and the way your excuses works. Your hierarchies and role models, your own ideas of what life is. Your greed, your egoism, your ideals and beliefs, ignorance, hubris. To me you exemplify everything that leads us to extinction.

because you refuse to change
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17323 on: 19/02/2021 12:54:42 »
The game you see played around you is a direct result of yourself. The inequality, the torture and murders, the arms sales, the pollution, global warming and all the rest. A direct consequence of yourself.


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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17324 on: 19/02/2021 12:56:07 »
So no, I do not expect ourselves to get out of our bubble. I wish, I really wish we could, but looking at you?
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And as I keep telling you, I may have a pointy hat, but I don't have a wand.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17325 on: 19/02/2021 13:09:31 »
So we take chances, which most probably builds on our experiences of nothing so far exterminating us. Even though the BBC seems to be muzzled when it comes to global warming, and the rest, they still produce some interesting articles.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210217-the-moments-that-we-could-have-destroyed-humanity
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« Reply #17326 on: 20/02/2021 09:53:46 »
Thinking of it, my pointy hat doesn't seem to stay with the climate race. I said 2.5 at least but the reality today is around 3.5, and up. Centigrade that is. and this is also reality, a coalmine in the UK, getting opened. No Donald Trump involved. Don't look at what they say, look at what they do.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/20/absolutely-ridiculous-top-scientist-slams-uk-government-over-coalmine
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« Reply #17327 on: 20/02/2021 09:59:06 »
So this is our new path.  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/feb/19/how-fires-have-spread-to-previously-untouched-parts-of-the-world

And as no one of you responsible, for any of it, just as with the insurance companies referring to it as 'acts of God', or should that be providence? Isn't that funny, same as with wars driven by 'God at our side'. The intelligence levels of you folks can't be that imposing, can it?
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« Reply #17328 on: 20/02/2021 10:09:54 »
Let's add it up, wild fires, droughts and floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, storms of all kinds including snow storms, geting more frequent, in places they  hasn't been seen before and of a constantly growing magnitude. Then the oceans, over fished with the competition and its 'industrial farming' practices growing. Geo politics getting worse and worse. Acidity and loss of oxygen in the oceans, the weather getting too warm forcing migration, shells dissolving for crabs plankton etc. Eco diversity disappearing combined with pesticides and industrial mono farming forcing just a few gene modified species to exist for your consumption. Countries losing their own food production geared to give you your bananas, palm oil, all those things you take for granted in your super market. topsoil and waterways getting fouled and lost.

And a new coal mine.
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« Reply #17329 on: 20/02/2021 10:10:38 »
Yep, you're acting.
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« Reply #17330 on: 20/02/2021 10:11:57 »
And of course species extinctions. Looking at the picture you can't avoid species going extinct. At a accelerating pace.
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« Reply #17331 on: 20/02/2021 10:13:25 »
I have this feeling that my pointy hat will be found too slow here too. That it will be worse than what I thought before, and faster.
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« Reply #17332 on: 20/02/2021 10:17:45 »
Then we add the nuclear arms race intensifying, the new doctrine of 'limited nuclear wars', one man one car, infra structures unchanged. No democracy. With all of you considering yourself innocent of any of it.
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« Reply #17333 on: 20/02/2021 10:19:48 »
some years ago I started calling it a 'perfect storm', and that is exactly what it will be.
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« Reply #17334 on: 20/02/2021 10:20:09 »
And you won't get out of it.
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« Reply #17335 on: 20/02/2021 10:22:30 »
You lie to yourself, you let others lie to you too. You accept the lies and build your confidence in a future from them. You do it because you're a player in the same game as those that lie to you. Your strongest dream being to become one of those that lies.
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« Reply #17336 on: 20/02/2021 10:25:32 »
The only question will be how we will go extinct. There is the possibility of a nuclear war. Psychopath and sociopaths, narcissists leading you into it as they grow old and realize that this could be their last chance to leave their mark on the world.

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« Reply #17337 on: 20/02/2021 10:26:25 »
And they are your role models. It's too easy to see who think they are 'leaders' in this world.
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« Reply #17338 on: 20/02/2021 10:28:28 »
If I just could put them on a island to fight it out by themselves I would. But it wouldn't change a thing. You would just vote up new 'leaders', wouldn't you?  Strong leaders.
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« Reply #17339 on: 20/02/2021 10:29:44 »
The traits of the game.
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