This article is a year old already, but everything it discusses is actually worse today than it was then.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805
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LEGO Americana Roadshow: Building Across America I just checked out this traveling exhibition from LEGO and was quite impressed. The scale ... -
When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
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Thank you, Lego, for letting me simply tell you online which parts were missing from the boy's Christmas present and sending them to me,...
It is the proverbial tip of the iceberg, so to speak. Species (plant and animal) that cannot adapt fast enough will die off (including eventually Humans). The question is which species is required for Human survival? The answer is most of them. Ocean acidification is the elephant in the room that everyone wants to ignore. The biosphere is, in reality, a line of dominoes.
ReplyDeleteMac Baird
ReplyDeleteAnd with infinite growth picking up speed as it spreads worldwide, all these dominoes will fall.
no not climate change rather prophecy unfolding as predicted Millennia ago
ReplyDeleteEllen Mahmood Prophesy did not bring the modern comforts you take for granted to you. Wallah is a figment of a mushroom addled imagination. Science is the key.
ReplyDeleteTraider A
ReplyDeleteScience fiction before fact. We have to dream it before we can achieve it. Never underestimate the power of mushrooms. :-) There was nothing in prophesy about exponential population growth and 7.4 billion, soon to be 8 billion, people and their waste on the planet. Unfortunately, there are no longer enough mushrooms to go around.
Mac Baird
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime we continue to make capitalism run as history intended, bringing the secular comforts these morons take for granted, to them. So as they may have the space (wasted I might add) to lecture us the folly of the same Reason that keeps them in comfort.
Traider A
ReplyDeleteEventually, Capitalism will force everyone to act in their economic self-interest with regard to Anthropomorphic Climate Change.
Mac Baird Oh, right...free markets work perfectly and solve every problem!
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Craig Froehle All in good time. We cannot hurry objective history. We can derail it or fail to move with it and that means failure of this species but not the end of history. We would be better employed putting backwardness to bed, objectively understanding history and its timelines and also objectively understanding why globalisation (free markets) compel all of us. Even green entrepreneurs
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle
ReplyDeleteTotally free markets do not exist. Economic self-interest means when the cost of change becomes less than the cost of status quo, people, communities, governments change. Collective pain has not yet reached that limit, but with every fire, flood, drought, hurricane, heat crisis, inch of sea level rise, it is getting closer.
In addition to the absorption of CO2, the ocean absorbs heat, possibly a greater threat to the biosphere. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/12/science/earth/ocean-warming-climate-change.html?_r=1
ReplyDeleteMac Baird
ReplyDeleteThat is the difference between subjective and objective dialectics. The markets for example are objective...players in it subjective...hence the huge casualty rate. Once we realise that and learn to read the markets (which are history and something science will have to investigate one day if we survive), we recognise that it is all compelling and will take us where it will...even to our collective extinction as a species. Ultimately it is pointing at a collectivised world devoid of religion and based on pure reason...but as you see for the moment, that is a long way off.
Traider A
ReplyDeleteIn both Technical Market Analysis (my current 21 year career) and Target Motion Analysis (my first 20 year career in the Submarine Force), all trends continue until something happens to cause a change. There is always risk in predicting where something will be in the future. There was an old saying in the Submarine Force ... "There are no pessimists on board, but we always plan and train to avoid the worst case scenario." Random success is highly overrated.
Mac Baird
ReplyDeleteYeah. Probably.