[lit-ideas] Re: Global warming claims tropical island
- From: "Steve Chilson" <stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:41:36 +0000
This hysteria - global warming, google warming, is great entertainment
and I wish to thank Andy and those who take global warming hysteria
seriously enough to answer Andy. (like myself, apparently)
I believe in the Ice Age.
The economic argument IS nonsense, Andy. I agree. Over a 20 year span
humans could improve earth and earth's environment. First you must
killkillkill all the people making profits from oil. Then you must
killkillkill all the people driving cars. (well, maybe if you do the
first the second will come on its own.)
I've seen the mountain top on xmas.
Ben Nevis.
There were no cars on Ben Nevis. There were no oligarchs on Ben Nevis.
There were no Memphian niggers, no white boyz, no nazi punks, no ASBO
recipients, no feminists, no gays, no Tony Blairs or George Bushes, no
Martin Luther Kings, no Dead Kennedys, no pay rises, no consumer
complaints. In fact, I didn't see any motherfuckers up there but
myself. A few crunchy people maybe. And they'd have joined Andy in his
schrie against global warming. No snow either. Highest peak in the UK
and no snow. That's what they are scratching their heads about in
Scotland. Where the fuck is the snow. It must be global warming.
I think about a year ago everyone or nearly everyone, was going to die
of bird flu in England. Do any of you in the UK remember that one?
Global warming? Might be down to humans, might be down to nature, might
be down to fate.
Economics? I think humans have proven themselves well capable of
exploiting hysteria enough to know that if it's worth exploiting, it
will be done, thy kingdom come. Global warming is certainly worth
exploiting, economically speaking, once the oil barons have been hung.
But I did go, no lie, to Ben Nevis for xmas. Not to see global warming
at its peak but to see.
Steve Chilson,
still unfortunately, in Brummyham back again.
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:00:03 -0500, "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
said:
> On 12/28/06, Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > For Paul, the economic argument is nonsense.
> >
>
> It isn't nonsense if you want 'immediate' results. It would absolutely
> ruin
> our economy to even throttle down over a span of a decade. Of course, we
> could dream up something new and begin thriving again, but SHOULD we?
> That's
> the question that we really should address. It doesn't seem to me that we
> are.
>
> It's what the car and oil companies argue. We can have a Manhattan
> project
> > to create a bomb, but we can't have one to clean up the environment?
> >
>
> Clean up our environment? What EXACTLY do you mean? Please list all the
> 'stuff' that needs cleaning up. Then tell me who is going to do the
> cleaning, who is going to pay for it, and what we are going to do with
> all
> the stuff we clean up?
>
> The U.S. by itself creates most of the greenhouse gases, at least 30%.
> >
> >
> > 30% is "most"? You see, this is the kind of sentence that I just can't get
> > past. It's not even sensible language, let alone the implicatures.
> >
>
> and what exactly is a "greenhouse gas" and can I get some for my
> greenhouse
> > to run on?
> >
>
> And, for Andy, I have asked you twice now:
>
> Re: your sentence "We're the ones too stupid to let it slip through our
> fingers, along with everything else."
>
> Do you mean that "we are stupid and and we SHOULD let it slip through our
> fingers"? Because that's what the sentence says.
>
> If that IS what you meant to say... why are we too stupid to let
> something
> slip through our fingers, what is that thing? and should we also let
> everything else slip through our fingers as well? If so... what all else
> do
> you have in mind and why should we let it slip through our fingers?
>
>
> P
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Steve Chilson
stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx
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