gizmo_2655
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perceptions_now wrote on Feb 23 rd, 2012 at 12:33am: gizmo_2655 wrote on Feb 22 nd, 2012 at 11:33pm: perceptions_now wrote on Feb 22 nd, 2012 at 10:27pm: gizmo_2655 wrote on Feb 22 nd, 2012 at 2:09pm: Grey wrote on Feb 22 nd, 2012 at 1:25pm: Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Feb 21 st, 2012 at 9:48pm: gizmo_2655 wrote on Feb 20 th, 2012 at 12:52pm: I guess I'm a little cynical about these sorts of things...
After all, I've been through the 'only an inch of topsoil' famine caused extinction of humanity by 1970 (1975, 1980, oh wait, 1990)
And the 'only enough oil for 3 months' things in 1973, 1979, 1985, 1995, 2001 etc etc...
And my parents, grandparents and uncles/aunts have told me about the various 'end of the world, next Thursday' things from their childhoods, although, those were usually due to the 'decay' of contemporary society (votes for women was going to cause it, so was promiscuity, splitting the atom, the invention of motorcars, the decline in church attendance, the approaching millennium (1900) and pretty much everything else).....
It seems there are ALWAYS groups around, predicting the fall of man.....since the 50's it's been environmental, rather than the older 'wrath of god' type though....
About the only common thread is, all the predictions have failed, and many have failed miserably... Well said. Doomsday scenarios have been around for thousands of years. This is just the latest. This thread topic is not 'global warming'. It's the future prospects stemming from continued exponential growth. Do we have 'exponential growth deniers' ? Are they the same people? I know Grey, nothing in my post, or destroyer's response, was about 'global warming'.... Doc Jolly was the one who mentioned GW, I just answered his comments... Just a small correction there Gizmo, it was actually you who first introduced the Environment (although admitedly mis-splelled), on the very first post after Grey's initial post! gizmo_2655 wrote on Feb 20 th, 2012 at 7:01am: Interesting video Grey...... Although it seems to be the standard' whiney eivronnutter 'back to the cave' philosophy that's been around since the 1960's.... I did expect better of you.... Yes, and??Environmentalism isn't restricted to global warming, in fact it predates the agw argument by a couple of decades (or more)... The very first Earth Day in 1970 focused on over population and global cooling fears...... Air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution (although I never got that one), logging, hunting, over fishing, topsoil depth, resource scarcity and numerous other things ( including the Tasmanian green movements protests AGAINST 'renewable' hydroelectricity projects from the late 60's until the early 80's..) were the major focuses of the early environmental movements around the world.... Global Warming/Climate Change came much later... Yes, and, you were the first person to raise the Environment!
But, the video is not about that, it is about shortages in a whole range of areas and it is about Population levels, none of which you have addressed! Overpopulation IS an environmental issue....
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