Climate Change? Nahhh ...

[Azrael]

The One True Religion™ under discussion here is capitalism. Hence the photo upthread of a brooding Walter Benjamin.

Again, this NYT piece on Uruguay as a renewable alt-fuel / alt-future laboratory is pretty great. And takes into consideration many of the reservations and concerns expressed on this thread.

What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay

 

[Neutral Corner]

The essay that you posted has all the markings of religion. The phrase "saving the world" is even in it. But I concede it again, as I have before, that I may have a broader view of religion than you do. I think everyone – even atheists - worship something. I don't think that human beings just opt out of worship with a heightened sense of enlightenment about the world.

It's not religion that bothers me. It's pictures of Glacier National Park from the 1930's which include glaciers that are gone. It's satellite pictures of the poles with ice caps that used to be there and are gone. It's weather events that are observably more severe.

It's understanding that it is inevitable that pumping 35 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually has an effect over time. It's understanding that when a river catches fire you have to make changes - and that the world as a whole is reaching that sort of tipping point, and we can either start trying to stop it now or wait until things crater to start doing so.

That's not religion, or even science. It's common sense.

 

[Twirling Time]

This is ironic. We pump billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, and yet a CO2 shortage is threatening the beer industry.

A Beer Shortage Is Brewing. A Volcano Is Partly to Blame

 

[Inky_Wretch]

This is ironic. We pump billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, and yet a CO2 shortage is threatening the beer industry.

A Beer Shortage Is Brewing. A Volcano Is Partly to Blame

THIS IS A CRISIS!!!

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I know there's a no outing rule, but …

 

[Azrael]

goin' great, and so forth

https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-US/

 

[Azrael]

Will shifting to solar help healthcare clinics survive the climate crisis?

 

[Slacker]

I know there's a no outing rule, but …

Carlson's maniacal laughing jags, feigned and overexaggerated for the cameras every time, just make him look even more like a frat-boy asshole. It's also his go-to defense mechanism, all the way back to that epic night when Jon Stewart eviscerated Tuckems on "Crossfire."

He's crazy with his lust for celebrity and power, and he's stoking the cult fires hard. Dangerous combination, unfortunately.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Trump has his Goebbels.

 

[bumpy mcgee]

Weird how the right wing focus its climate change attacks on the little European girl and not say, I don't know, say someone like 6-4, Brazilian jiu-jitsu enthusiast Jason Momoa who has been just as outspoken and given speeches at the UN as well.

 

[Azrael]

 

[Azrael]

also, regrettably, this