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Nearly 50 leading U.S. and European investors representing more than $8 trillion of assets met on Feb. 14 at the United Nations to lay out a timetable for their commitments to global climate change and to call on governments and other investors to act with their money as well.
Bill S. 2191 extracts trillions of dollars from the millions of American energy consumers and delivers this wealth to permanently identified classes of recipients, such as tribal groups and preferred technology sectors, while largely circumventing the normal congressional appropriations process. Unbound by the periodic review of the normal budgetary process, this de facto tax-and-spend program threatens to become permanent--independent of the goals of the legislation.
Originally posted by john124
reply to post by blueorder
All of those who see a conspiracy here are seeing whatever they wish to see. So yeah my original sarcastic post makes even more sense the more I read it.
[edit on 7-12-2009 by john124]
Originally posted by rusethorcain
reply to post by kiwifoot
Here is some climate change information for you showing the effects of global warming on the planet. It is undeniable!
People all over the planet are feeling it's devastating effects on their lands, their lives and their livelihoods.
Will you all wait until the waters reach your front door before you decide this is a crucial issue?
Let us accept this sad fact of reality and move on with ways to help those already affected by climate change... before they die.
www.msnbc.msn.com...
[edit on 7-12-2009 by rusethorcain]
Originally posted by marg6043
Is interesting that you bring that out, I heard that most of the trillion dollars been proposed at the expenses of tax payer, and our children future like everything that is done in this nation now a days is going into the hands of ever body else but us the tax payer
interesting to see how now even with our economy falling we still have morons in Washington whoring themselves to pimps in corporate lobbyist groups to keep bringing America to its knees,, and the propaganda is just getting started as you can see by some post in this thread so far.
I have been following the deterioration of our nation, our politics and way of life to laws and pursue of means to leach our wealth, now we get to go all over again with the same crap with the climate change bill pursuers.
When people are going to learn that we are the losers either way, because somebody up and higher than us means to profit while screwing us at the bottom.
Originally posted by seethelight
Rape is a provable crime, to a point, but in many cases juries still decide based on things less real than the evidence for global climate change.
but that wasn't the point... the point was that if we throw out everything created by the elite there'd be little left, especially as far as society is concerned.
In addition to that, I don't disagree that global warming is occurring naturally, to some degree, but NOT to the degree we're seeing.
That's also what the UN says and what thousands of scientists from dozens of countries think.
Finally, I'm not sure what you think is more important than trying to figure out a way to stop the wholesale destruction of our way of life.
You're right on that, history is full of these instances, but history is also full of instances where young nations, grew faster than their resource pool and were forced to expand aggressively until their civilizations collapsed because they'd used up all their resources. the people is Easter Island, many tribes in the American SW, and possible some of the ancient civilizations of meso-America. So, history is on my side on this one, with the knowledge that grand civilizations have been destroyed by lack of resources, why shouldn't we try and change course.
At this point you're just not being reasonable. History tells us to conserve or die, it's a simple choice.
Originally posted by kenochs
I thought so, but evidently not. I like to use big words.
And one quick point: if everyone who wrote self-indulgent nonsense on this site was banned, it'd be a lonely place.
Originally posted by endisnighe
reply to post by rusethorcain
I never knew that glaciers were living beings. Just goes to show how unscientific I am. /s
Originally posted by rusethorcain
Here in Florida we have playgrounds that are spontaneously com busting...come on.
Sometimes the sky doesn't have to fall on you...
Maybe it is all one big coincidence, eh chief
Originally posted by lpowell0627
Originally posted by rusethorcain
Dr. Bernd gave an update on the status of playgrounds across the district. The playground
at Anderson Elementary caught fi re last week, apparently as a result of spontaneous combustion
caused by the decomposition of engineered wood fi ber used to cushion the playground’s fall
zone. We have 35 playgrounds spread among 20 campuses that use this same material, and our
maintenance-and-operations staff is currently in the process of removing all wood fi ber material and
replacing it with pea gravel on all 35 sites. Our goal is to have the project fi nished within two weeks.