tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post484691186355487935..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Let's Stop Cheating Our GrandchildrenThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-16616915409000558912017-08-06T09:10:19.819-07:002017-08-06T09:10:19.819-07:00To elaborate on my previous post, it appears to me...To elaborate on my previous post, it appears to me that most people don't keep up to date with current events, what we call the News. It's not that they don't read newspapers, listen to the radio or watch TV news, they don't pay attention to the news anywhere. Oh,, I hear people say they get their news from Facebook. That's not news, it's gossip. There's no understanding of what is happening, historical background, or complications. Nada. Curiously, even well educated people have joined the ranks of ignorants. Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-86712367740288252362017-08-05T19:55:08.868-07:002017-08-05T19:55:08.868-07:00Here in the Okanagan we have endured at least a mo...Here in the Okanagan we have endured at least a month of smoke in the air from forest fires. At times we can't see the nearby mountains or across the lake. There is frequent coughing, sneezing and runny eyes. Before the fires and smoke there was flooding. People are enduring and complaining but not making the connection with global warming. How bad does it have to get for people to figure it out? How bad for them to demand that their politicians deal with it? Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-30634111974958457332017-08-05T17:52:16.511-07:002017-08-05T17:52:16.511-07:00The more humans that die now the better. Our gree...The more humans that die now the better. Our greed has already driven us off the cliff. The death of five or six billion humans (and, sadly, other creatures) would be beneficial to the survival of human civilisation. If you are interested in the survival of human civilisation, that is.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-34426968987116251492017-08-05T14:02:34.821-07:002017-08-05T14:02:34.821-07:00The science indicates that climate change impacts ...<br />The science indicates that climate change impacts will steadily worsen but it won't be a linear process. Instead they will come in spurts that may catch us by surprise, unprepared. We've had many years to observe climate-related crop failures but, so far, they've tended to happen in one locale but not others. For example the Russians had a major crop failure but other grain growing regions were able to blunt the impacts. Now it's suggested we need to prepare for simultaneous failures in two, perhaps even three of the major growing regions. With a razor-thin reserve of about 60 days that would be cataclysmic for the poorer, more vulnerable states. <br /><br />There was a time when it was so convenient to slag Tories over this but now we're seeing that staunch Liberal voters aren't much different. For all the fine reasons we have to be proud of Canada, it's hard to be proud of our indifferent society.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-74643174837622539582017-08-05T13:39:42.482-07:002017-08-05T13:39:42.482-07:00People seem to lack a sense of urgency Mound, espe...People seem to lack a sense of urgency Mound, especially when they hear that things will start to get really bad by 2100. Eight-two years from now seems too remote for most. I think the models predicting this date are too optimistic, given what we now know about melting ice and permafrost, great sources of methane, as well as the feedback loops they feed, subjects you have often written on.<br /><br />Should we be fortunate(?) enough to live a couple more decades, Mound, I have a feeling that we will have seen some very bad things before the train leaves the station.Lornehttp://www.politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.com