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The gun is loaded ... and it is a hair trigger (Original Post) MindMover Mar 2014 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Th1onein Mar 2014 #1
My take on it NickB79 Mar 2014 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Th1onein Mar 2014 #5
So you do not understand climate change ? MindMover Mar 2014 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Th1onein Mar 2014 #4
I saw in it "the smoking gun" WheelWalker Mar 2014 #6
Pointing a gun at Mother Nature pscot Mar 2014 #7
If you had an opinion worth sharing, I might consider it .... MindMover Mar 2014 #8
Define nature pscot Mar 2014 #9
There is a face on nature for that reason ... nt MindMover Mar 2014 #10
Another way of comparing the relationship between corporations and nature, might be, CRH Mar 2014 #11

Response to MindMover (Original post)

NickB79

(19,224 posts)
2. My take on it
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 04:18 PM
Mar 2014

Human Civilization (the city-encrusted gun) is poised to blow Mother Nature's brains out via ecological destruction.

Response to NickB79 (Reply #2)

MindMover

(5,016 posts)
3. So you do not understand climate change ?
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 04:18 PM
Mar 2014

Is that what you are asking or is my face just registering "incredulous" because your question is so incredulous ...

Response to MindMover (Reply #3)

pscot

(21,024 posts)
7. Pointing a gun at Mother Nature
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 06:41 PM
Mar 2014

is really asking for it. That cartoon grossly misrepresents the scale of the relationship.

MindMover

(5,016 posts)
8. If you had an opinion worth sharing, I might consider it ....
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 07:47 PM
Mar 2014

the art that you misrepresent as a cartoon, is exactly to scale of the relationship between corporations and nature ....

pscot

(21,024 posts)
9. Define nature
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 08:02 PM
Mar 2014

When we're gone the planet will go on without us. We're pointing that gun at our own heads.

CRH

(1,553 posts)
11. Another way of comparing the relationship between corporations and nature, might be,
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 08:54 PM
Mar 2014

nature allows through a gentle climate, for corporations to exist. With a climate in chaos, how long will corporate profits survive, without profits, what is the attraction or need for corporations?

If this art represents an exact scale of the relationship between corporations and nature, I think one has to question the parameters of the supposed relationship. Corporations are an socioeconomic tool to harvest the bounty of nature. However, nature makes the rules and creates the boundaries within which corporations are allowed to function. Nature cannot be defied and she also bats last. CEO's cannot match her fury, when global mean temperatures rise a mere 6-8*C above her gentle corporate friendly environment.

From this perspective, any relationship corporations have to nature is certainly subservient, and I might add, in peril.

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