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Snackshack

(2,541 posts)
26. 100% right.
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 03:51 PM
Feb 2021

Unfortunately I think we are well beyond being able to do anything to avoid the change in our environment that is already coming. Today we are at 416.33ppm of CO2 in our atmosphere. Temp will eventually catch up to the CO2 level as it always has and the planet will be vastly changed. We will either learn to adapt or we won’t.

It's been going on for a long time, gab13by13 Feb 2021 #1
Excellent article! burrowowl Feb 2021 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Feb 2021 #3
Yup. Ms. Toad Feb 2021 #21
The 1930's "shelter belt" is still on my grandparents' South Dakota farm. SharonAnn Feb 2021 #32
Well worth a full read. Thanks. erronis Feb 2021 #4
yw 👍 I have learned a lot from Thom over a Decade of listening to his daily 12pmest-3pm show yaesu Feb 2021 #22
Yes, it's very noticeable and disrutbing relayerbob Feb 2021 #5
Growing up in 60s and 70s all we talked about was "Zero Population Growth", rickyhall Feb 2021 #6
our attempts to make a better life are now dismissed with "OK Boomer" DBoon Feb 2021 #8
Depressing, ain't it. rickyhall Feb 2021 #11
+1 Ferrets are Cool Feb 2021 #12
There is no doubt in my mind that wnylib Feb 2021 #7
Here's an article on why Lyme disease got so prevalent Jetheels Feb 2021 #10
I don't have the background to challenge wnylib Feb 2021 #29
Here's a book on Lyme. I read the reviews only. Native Americans also lived around wild turkeys Jetheels Feb 2021 #31
Read Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." Bo Zarts Feb 2021 #9
But, we didn't learn the lesson. BarbD Feb 2021 #15
Love me some Thom Ferrets are Cool Feb 2021 #13
When I was a kid in Denver DENVERPOPS Feb 2021 #14
na. mother nature doesnt care if the earth is a paradise or a slag heap. it should matter to us. bullimiami Feb 2021 #18
That's what people really need to realize. BComplex Feb 2021 #20
Whose Garden Was This? keithhs28 Feb 2021 #25
We've lived our entire lives in the "fuck around" stage... movingviolation Feb 2021 #16
This yaesu Feb 2021 #23
I was in Atlanta for a week in 2009. Delmette2.0 Feb 2021 #17
As Thom would say, you are spot on! nt yaesu Feb 2021 #24
Oh, thank you. Delmette2.0 Feb 2021 #30
This is an excellent article by Thom Hartmann. Wow. BComplex Feb 2021 #19
100% right. Snackshack Feb 2021 #26
Check out Tom's Hidden History series of books... RobertDevereaux Feb 2021 #27
the planet is trying to rid itself of the human infestation. we don't do lawn care. pansypoo53219 Feb 2021 #28
It isn't the planet. It is us. Nature doesn't commit suicide to eradicate humans, we do. Martin68 Feb 2021 #34
The Midwest is used to grow vast monocultures of food crops that are treated with tons of deadly Martin68 Feb 2021 #33
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