> On Oct 17, 2017, at 11:46 PM, Steve Kinney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 10/17/2017 09:25 PM, juan wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:39:59 -0400 >> John Newman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/ >> >> sooo, Your 'source' is your government. Cute! >> >> Now let's assume all the pentagon-greencorp enviro propaganda ia >> true. What are the green saviors of the earth doing then? Apart >> from subsidizing corrupt 'green' corporations, are they doing >> anything else? >> >> And if they are not doing anything else, does that mean the >> world is going to end...when? 5 years? 10? 20? Or what. > > The world "as we know it" has in effect already ended; the process > passed a tipping point about 20 years ago and is now self driving, > without any human input needed - largely due to Arctic methane > discharges and ocean acidification. As the process continues, > desertification will also become a direct contributing factor. > > We can make this situation worse - that is, hitting harder, faster, and > taking longer to stabilize at a "new normal." We can make it better - > delay the onset of radical weather changes, reduce the severity of peak > global temperatures, etc. But we can not stop global warming or prevent > the attendant human population crash, and to date our governments and > the industries that own them are fully committed to the worst case > scenario. The "Paris Accords" and other mitigation programs sanctioned > by our rulers are laughable cosmetic measures, even with strict > worldwide adherence - which ain't gonna happen. > > How do I know this crap? Because I have been watching developments in > relevant fields for nearly 40 years, and over the last decade my own > projections have consistently beaten those of professionals who "dare > not risk" being called alarmist or radical. Recently a few have come > out of the lab closet, so to speak, and more will follow: 20+ years too > late to make a damn bit of difference, even IF our captains of industry > would have listened to them. > > The good news: Anarchists, rejoice! The survivors will have nothing to > lose but their chains! The mega-State and massively concentrated wealth > and power making anything like self rule or an even break impossible are > on the way out. The last generation that will remember our present way > of life as "normal" has already been born. If the humans manage to > catch a few lucky breaks, a "better" world than our own fictional Good > Old Days could arrive as early as 2200, and is likely to last FAR longer > than the Industrial Age: The means of repeating the same mistakes will > not exist. > > :o) > > >
I like the optimism in the face of disaster :) cheers! John > > > > > > >
