Climate Change could attack within 45 minutes. - by jay pettitt
jay pettitt on 31/10/2006 at 22:18
The UK government are a troupe of muppets. I'm suprised GBM hansn't banned them.
That said, the Stern report has kind of green lighted green issues as (also) a business thing. Cutting carbon emission in quite a big way is, as of yesterday, a priority for my small business; which it wasn't when being a bit kookie and good business sense were seen as different things. Before Stern swapping the van for a bicycle trailer would have been an act of sillyness.
The emphasis is perhaps slightly less wrong now than it was before.
Ultraviolet on 1/11/2006 at 00:36
Quote Posted by TheGreatGodPan
The two aren't completely seperate issues. China and Russia, for example, both had massive famines in which a lot of people starved to death because of poor economic policies. As one economist said, once you start thinking about exponential growth, it's hard to think about anything else.
That poor economic policy being people depending on their government and economic infrastructure to feed them.
Quote Posted by scumble
"Governments
STUPID OR PREDATORY, corporations
STUPID AND PREDATORY"
fixed
Here's an economic policy for you: SUBSIDIZE individual strength, the ability to shore up your property to survive high water, hurricanes, power outages (Arizona housing projects were going to integrate solar power but decided against it last minute because city revenue might be damaged), drought (sic? cisterns, collection of rainwater, long term storage and purification, DECENTRALIZED). I am SO FUCKING TIRED of politicians fighting over our tax dollars by trying to sway people into believing lies about belief in family values and human rights and gun rights and safety, having us roll to once side of the political versus social liberty fence.
Aerothorn on 1/11/2006 at 18:55
...so your solution to global warming is to build walls so the water can't touch us?
Agent Monkeysee on 1/11/2006 at 20:26
From what I can tell his long-term strategy is to subsidize the creation of the Nietchzean Superman.
Turtle on 1/11/2006 at 20:44
How about subsidizing some Superman comics for me instead?
Something to read while I'm waiting to be drowned by the inevitability of global warming, with or without human intervention.
Ultraviolet on 1/11/2006 at 22:08
Quote Posted by Agent Monkeysee
From what I can tell his long-term strategy is to subsidize the creation of the Nietchzean Superman.
If we can fly, the water can't touch us, and we'll be really heat resistant, and we can kill SPACE MONSTERS for our food.
TheGreatGodPan on 1/11/2006 at 22:39
I think the "Copenhagen Conscensus" decided a while back it would be much easier to assist people in areas adversely affected by climate change than to prevent it from happening.
Why subsidize the building of walls or the Nietzchean Superman? After everything gets flooded the Nietzchean Supermen will be the ones smart enough left over due to being clever enough to prepare for it, so the problem will solve itself!
Ultraviolet on 1/11/2006 at 22:55
Quote Posted by TheGreatGodPan
Why subsidize the building of walls or the Nietzchean Superman? After everything gets flooded the Nietzchean Supermen will be the ones smart enough left over due to being clever enough to prepare for it, so the problem will solve itself!
So those that are left won't have the resources or opportunities that they could have had had they fixed the problem beforehand? That seems productive.
Or maybe the whole ubermensch thing never happens because all the parasites stunt their growth.
Agent Monkeysee on 1/11/2006 at 23:53
I dunno but it probably has something to do with that pesky underclass we call "employees".
Nicker on 2/11/2006 at 01:50
Relax everyone. The Russians have declared the Stern Report to be baseless and misleading. Back to your lives now.
I said, move along... Nothing more to talk about here...
