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NNadir

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2. Everyone, I do mean everyone, on the planet is involved.
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 06:11 AM
Apr 2016

It's easy, but I think, completely disingenuous to blame this state of affairs on some nebulous sociopathic elite.

Similarly the people I hear yelping the loudest about what is and is not "environmentally sane" are, in my opinion. clueless.

This is very much a technical issue; solutions exist, and are technically feasible, but they do not involve changing any particular economic system. In fact, in an emergency of this scale, focusing on changing the economic system would be a useless distraction.

Some years back, I made fun of the idea that an opinion of climate change was somehow involved in particular feelings about the social/economic system:

Smashing the Corporate Robber Baron Centralized Power System with Individual Power Systems.

Feel free to vote in the poll there.

Have a nice day.

Consumption-driven deregulated capitalism requiring increasing production Ghost Dog Apr 2016 #1
Everyone, I do mean everyone, on the planet is involved. NNadir Apr 2016 #2
Nice read, thanks, but misses the point. Briefly, Ghost Dog Apr 2016 #3
I have written at length about the lack of decent living conditions for the bulk... NNadir Apr 2016 #4
Mmm. "Stalin", and "Libertarian". You profoundly misunderstand. Ghost Dog Apr 2016 #5
No thanks. I think I understand what I need to know about these subjects, and there are... NNadir Apr 2016 #6
Then, your advocacy is based in (deliberate) ignorance, Ghost Dog Apr 2016 #7
We all have our own definition of ignorance. Mine is obviously different than yours. NNadir Apr 2016 #11
Associating contemporary Somalia with anarchist political philosophy Ghost Dog Apr 2016 #17
where is this coming from? Any way to know where the bulk is emanating? Fast Walker 52 Apr 2016 #8
Forest fires in SE Asia were very much involved in the 1997-1998 event, and until 2015... NNadir Apr 2016 #9
thanks... interesting to think the increase in atmospheric C02 is due to release from a warmer ocean Fast Walker 52 Apr 2016 #10
We just spent, in ten years, two trillion dollars on so called "renewable infrastructure." NNadir Apr 2016 #12
I'm not convinced it is "quixotic" Fast Walker 52 Apr 2016 #13
Well, then, with all due respect, actual data conflicts with your failure to be convinced. NNadir Apr 2016 #14
I just said I wasn't convinced (yet), not that I can't be convinced. Fast Walker 52 Apr 2016 #15
Nuclear reality vs fantasy kristopher Apr 2016 #16
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