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The bone flies and becomes a bomb
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A comment I left at an article talking about conservatives and their attitude about climate change:
I don't think the refusal to do anything about global warming is necessarily partisan. Leftists do a great job of talking about it, but how much is actually DONE on our side? How many of US are willing to change our lives in the truly radical way it would take? None that I've seen. I'm not talking about changing light bulbs and taking the bus - those things won't made any difference at all. I mean REAL change, the kind that will work.
None. You know why? Because it doesn't exist. The tipping point was reached long ago. Anything we do now will be cosmetic, and any changes will go towards maybe - MAYBE - making sure things get worse at a somewhat slower rate
Through evolution, the earth managed to come up with a species that can modify its environment to suit its own desires. Any species with that capacity is going to do exactly that - and it won't stop. We are doing what we're doing to the earth because it's written in our DNA: we're selfish, manipulative primates, and we're not going to stop being selfish, manipulative primates. Some of us try, but the reality is that we're simply never going to give up what we have and what we want. It's just not in our nature, and the proof is - well, here we are. HAVE we given up anything? HAVE we made the necessary changes? If we're not willing to make them now, we're never going to do it. We'll make a half-hearted attempt at the last minute, and then moan and weep and tear our hair over WHY DIDN'T WE ACT SOONER?
Because we can't. Because we won't. Because WE DON'T WANT TO. Bottom line - we don't want to. That'll be humanity's epitaph:
I DON'T WANNA AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME.
A comment I left at an article talking about conservatives and their attitude about climate change:
I don't think the refusal to do anything about global warming is necessarily partisan. Leftists do a great job of talking about it, but how much is actually DONE on our side? How many of US are willing to change our lives in the truly radical way it would take? None that I've seen. I'm not talking about changing light bulbs and taking the bus - those things won't made any difference at all. I mean REAL change, the kind that will work.
None. You know why? Because it doesn't exist. The tipping point was reached long ago. Anything we do now will be cosmetic, and any changes will go towards maybe - MAYBE - making sure things get worse at a somewhat slower rate
Through evolution, the earth managed to come up with a species that can modify its environment to suit its own desires. Any species with that capacity is going to do exactly that - and it won't stop. We are doing what we're doing to the earth because it's written in our DNA: we're selfish, manipulative primates, and we're not going to stop being selfish, manipulative primates. Some of us try, but the reality is that we're simply never going to give up what we have and what we want. It's just not in our nature, and the proof is - well, here we are. HAVE we given up anything? HAVE we made the necessary changes? If we're not willing to make them now, we're never going to do it. We'll make a half-hearted attempt at the last minute, and then moan and weep and tear our hair over WHY DIDN'T WE ACT SOONER?
Because we can't. Because we won't. Because WE DON'T WANT TO. Bottom line - we don't want to. That'll be humanity's epitaph: