How do you deal with the fact of climate change/greenhouse effect?

[rpn453]

I'll take that over another ice age.

I've never thought of this world as a stable place anyway.

 

[Codger]

I think the world, as it pertains to humans, is generally fucked anyway due to overpopulation which is another thing we could actually control but refuse to do anything about at all. No amount of carbon tax, electric cars and windfarms can make up for the extra billions of humans that will be crawling over every flat bit of land.. The weather and rising sea-levels will be just part of a long list of problems including lack of water and food, pollution, mass extinction etc and the wars we'll have over these problems.

 

[kahiljabroni]

Pursue a life of excellence, because the end is drawing near. Everything’s past the tipping point and nothing’s sustainable. It’s all about to come crashing down, so pursue a life of excellence.

Pursue a life of excellence. Make art and chase love. Stand in the spotlight and show everyone how beautiful you are. What have you got to lose? This will all be ashes soon. Kiss a girl and punch someone right in the nose.
Pursue a life of excellence. Walk barefoot through the dirty night streets and call out the names of the archangels into the echoing forest of Earth bones. And grow antlers. Why not? Grow antlers that can feel the sad songs of the whale ghosts from the pods of the Bloodship Massacres. Someday soon the sky will be on fire, and you’ll be sorry that you didn’t do these things.

There’s a fiery elephant god who lives in the base of an island volcano. It says “Pah” to all your excuses and casts them into the lava; “Pah!” Pursue a life of excellence and tell your parents they can suck it. Piss on the graves of your ancestors, because they were miserable and they did it all wrong.

“Excellence” doesn’t mean being the best at all the shitty things that got us here. It doesn’t mean having the best cars or the biggest house or the most esteemed slave-driving, world-mining job. It also doesn’t mean being the best at following the rules of that twisted mockery of a god they invented to sell gold crosses and oppression. The real is what is excellent. The throbbing-cellular leaping-off-the-edge, nerves-exposed ALIVE. Live a life that’s worthy of that first ancient fish ancestor to schlep itself out of the sea. Exceed grandmother fish’s wildest expectations. Paint the earth with mushroom spores and have a frivolous abortion.

Pursue a life of excellence, before it all goes away. There’ll be those who tell you you can’t, or that you shouldn’t, or that that isn’t how it’s done. Line them all up, get a running start, and slap them all in the face with one long Three-Stooges slap, and then shake them, SHAKE THEM, while screaming the following as loud as you can:
Do you have any idea how big this all is?
How old this all is?
How complex this all is?
Where were you when grandmother fish gasped her first breaths?
Where were you when somethingness first lurched out of the darkness?
Dozens of self-reinforcing global warming feedback loops while technological development hurtles toward the inevitability of an artificial superintelligence plugging itself into the internet, and have you ever once fucked like you were trying to save the world?
Have you ever gone fishing for long-forgotten nightmares?
Ever belched glowing egg pods into the air with the walrus slugs?
Ever let the tears of evolution’s tragedy fall uninhibited from your salty head?
Wake up you fools! Wake UP!

Pursue a life of excellence. Throw a lasso around a sacred cow while weeping for the sins of the settlers. The elephant god in the heart of Fire Mountain will NOT disdain us, it will not! The streets and the buildings pop and crackle both in excitement for us and in eager anticipation of their impending incineration into the mysterious next-to-come. Checkmate isn't real; the board has been thrown across the room by a frustrated little brother, and now the gods are all murmuring that the cat's out of the bag. This is YOUR life my friend. This is your life, my friend.

~ Tim Foley

Gotta say that was fkn awesome!

 

[no fat chicks]

I think the world, as it pertains to humans, is generally fucked anyway due to overpopulation which is another thing we could actually control but refuse to do anything about at all. No amount of carbon tax, electric cars and windfarms can make up for the extra billions of humans that will be crawling over every flat bit of land.. The weather and rising sea-levels will be just part of a long list of problems including lack of water and food, pollution, mass extinction etc and the wars we'll have over these problems.

But but the open space in Wisconsin and children are a blessing. Overpopulation has to be a lie

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Its almost 100% that if you're conservative in USA you won't believe in climate change, just look at the conservative posters on here, its exactly on par. When you have a senator standing on the floor of the senate holding a snowball and says the earth is not warming because you know,,he had a snowball. After seeing that, why get your fur up when you are called anti science? You are disagreeing with the huge majority of science professionals for no other reason than your political beliefs, the anti science label seems to have merit.

This is chairman of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee, science at its best.

I don't think you can cast any part worse than this...

If you casted Mr. Miyagi to play Shaquille O'Neal in a biopic, you would still be "hitting the target" far better than James Fucking Inhofe as the CHAIRMAN of anything related to SCIENCE.