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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire
originally posted by: neo96
Apparently those twenty 'scientists' think people are just too dumb to make up their own minds.
I really do wish there were 2 different planets, so the greed beyond caring group could live on one and compassionate communalists could live on the other. That would be a fun experiment.
Most people associate petroleum with transportation — but we are surrounded by thousands of other everyday products that come from this vital natural resource. A typical 42- gallon barrel of crude oil yields about 20 gallons of gasoline and 4 gallons of jet fuel. What products come from the other 18 gallons?
•Plastics
•Ink
•Paint
•Shoe Polish
•Nylons
•Roof shingles
•Novelty Candy
•Cosmetics
•Candles
•Vaseline
•Bug Killer
•Ammonia
•Tires
•Asphalt
•Crayons
•Paper cups
•Wax paper
originally posted by: ThirdEyeofHorus
I know you won't be needing the bug killer as your mud hut won't have any spiders or mice or scorpions or other interesting critters. Indians make awesome little cups and bowls and plates out of leaves Im sure your life will be fun learning to do that. They are also biodegradable. Maybe you could force the women and children to make them for you at knifepoint, oh wait no steel because industrialized world is evil....
originally posted by: Spiramirabilis
a reply to: darkbake
I think in their mind, their views are superior because they are scientific
This isn't about ego - but ego is exactly what's preventing us from doing what needs to be done
If one group of people resists because they get their feelings bruised - what can be done about that? Are we supposed to sit around and wait until they feel special and catered to?
This is about certain knowledge - and uncertainty. Nobody can prove anything to anybody 100 percent. It's unreasonable to demand proof if people won't listen to or accept anything that's being given to them - freely
However I don't like their tendency to want to *shush* people with different views than theirs.
This isn't a free speech issue - people are more than free to have opposing opinions. They are not free to put other people in harms way - because of an opinion
Your opinion that the dam is not about to burst shouldn't prevent an evacuation that needs to happen just in case. At a certain point - decisions are going to have to be made for the greater good
originally posted by: ISawItFirst
originally posted by: ThirdEyeofHorus
a reply to: neo96
Kind of can of worms. If the Totalitarians can prosecute us for dissenting from their fraud environmentalist extremist friends they can throw us in reeducation camps for anything we happen to disagree with.
My my the apple doesn't fall far from the tree these Leninist Stalinist Marxists going to do what the old Soviet Union did and we knew it. I'm absolutely amazed by the totalitarians all around....
Its not marxist. Its maoist. Wait for the cull of the older generation. There are less and less children able to think on their own after 12 years of indoctrination. The parallels to Maos china are all there. This type of story is exactly what they use to get the children to turn on their parents.
Unless we right the ship, expect a bloodbath. That will be the fundamental change we will believe in, or die.
www.bloomberg.com... Forbes
So there are almost five times as many self-identified liberal radicals on our faculties, and more than three times as many Marxists as there are conservatives. Last I checked, Marxism has been utterly discredited. Yet there are still Marxists everywhere, poisoning the minds of our children. Conservatives, on the other hand, are a rarity.
While there isn’t enough data to address the question, it is safe to assume that no other profession is so tilted. In a society about evenly split between liberals and conservatives, achieving such a bias requires serious effort. It doesn’t happen by accident.
If you want to run conservatives out, you need to discourage dissertations that might reach conservative conclusions. You need to shun young students if their work questions liberal orthodoxy. You need to control the academic journals, rejecting papers submitted by identifiable conservatives.
Political Bias
You need to celebrate work that supports the political bias of Democrats. If your research shows that higher minimum wages are terrific, an endowed chair is yours for the taking. Question whether a higher minimum wage might cause higher unemployment, and find your place on the bread line.
The hacked East Anglia e-mails confirm that exactly this type of conspiracy is in place. They show climate experts plotting how to keep the lid on research that didn’t support the prevailing view on global warming. In one e-mail, Michael Mann of Penn State University proposed boycotting an academic journal because it had published an article that provided evidence contrary to global warming canon.
originally posted by: ISawItFirst
I dont remember scientists asking Obama to investigate himself.
originally posted by: ThirdEyeofHorus
I'm afraid you are confusing nuclear energy and it's by products with the burning of fossil fuels as related to global warming. Sorry fail in logical debate.
I would like us all to voluntarily work together for a better planet using the greenest technology
originally posted by: mOjOm
originally posted by: ThirdEyeofHorus
I'm afraid you are confusing nuclear energy and it's by products with the burning of fossil fuels as related to global warming. Sorry fail in logical debate.
I was simply pointing out that we humans are causing many of our own problems.
originally posted by: ThirdEyeofHorus
yah we should all voluntarily submit to having our world's controlled tracked reduced to the minimal living in apartments and bicycling everywhere and not eating red meat and if that fails just arrest us all.