tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5570529966826283420..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Climate Change - Will Drive You Nuts, Really.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-13427635574694988662015-07-16T14:17:31.419-07:002015-07-16T14:17:31.419-07:00Jeez, and here's me thinking I was being light...Jeez, and here's me thinking I was being lighthearted and amusing what with the kittens and all. Since I know full well you think me an unlettered barbarous dolt incapable of perceiving the difference between death and a deep sleep. <br /><br />Ah well, let that be a lesson to me then...he who must not be named must also not be teased.Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-81222844469602977772015-07-16T11:06:20.385-07:002015-07-16T11:06:20.385-07:00There was a time3 when we could say that feeding t...There was a time3 when we could say that feeding the world's population was primarily a matter of distribution. I think those days have passed. There are too many people, not enough food and desertification is making the problem much worse. We have already seen mass starvations but none like we will see. Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-19382719146377595302015-07-16T10:42:03.400-07:002015-07-16T10:42:03.400-07:00@ PLG - these topics, especially when they touch o...@ PLG - these topics, especially when they touch on the Liberals and New Democrats, do seem to stir people up. I take a good bit of heat on this, especially from certain Dippers who don't like anyone pointing out that they've crapped their drawers.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-48443252169441677632015-07-16T10:40:10.518-07:002015-07-16T10:40:10.518-07:00@ NPoV - I think these reports go back a good deal...@ NPoV - I think these reports go back a good deal before the Esquire article.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-5924380342473968552015-07-16T09:14:23.793-07:002015-07-16T09:14:23.793-07:00It's really amazed me just how viscerally Dana...It's really amazed me just how viscerally Dana reacts to someone claiming that collapse /= extinction.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-69389350684551749972015-07-16T09:13:18.487-07:002015-07-16T09:13:18.487-07:00Somebody taking my name in vain and ludicrously di...Somebody taking my name in vain and ludicrously distorting my positions? You have a nice day too, Dana.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-65581563105052232192015-07-16T08:35:11.861-07:002015-07-16T08:35:11.861-07:00LOL
Saw your post ... and glanced at the Wapo arti...LOL<br />Saw your post ... and glanced at the Wapo article...<br />which seems to be a rip-off of the Esquire article I linked to in your comments section a few days ago..<br />http://the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.ca/2015/07/we-have-to-take-down-fossil-fuel.html<br /><br /><br />Northern PoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04670080478290108536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-85959450665477523732015-07-15T16:52:02.787-07:002015-07-15T16:52:02.787-07:00This is so much wider, higher, deeper an issue tha...This is so much wider, higher, deeper an issue than has perhaps ever before been faced on earth. <br /><br />We, by which I mean humanity, are in the process of altering some fundamental qualities of several of the life supporting systems of our one and only home. <br /><br />And what do we do? We continue along the path that has led this existential crisis and we accelerate the process. As though we were ignorant of the results of that continuation, that acceleration.<br /><br />Every passing month reveals to me just how shallow a species we really are. <br /><br />We know that this is a global issue that requires drastic and global action and, even in highly educated First World countries, we reduce consideration of it to parochial partisan squabbles that do nothing to address our species impending, in geological terms, self extermination. PLG will be along in a second with some kittens I'm sure. <br /><br />I think it's time to seriously think about building a repository of the best of human creation. <br /><br />It will be bad enough to leave the record of how we destroyed ourselves but so much worse if we left the impression that we never created anything of beauty.Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-19504427256451498642015-07-15T14:03:50.504-07:002015-07-15T14:03:50.504-07:00Unfortunately, Dana, that's all very true. Ou...Unfortunately, Dana, that's all very true. Our civilization, our societies, our communities have become absolutely even mortally dependent on perpetual growth in levels of production and consumption that are already far beyond our planet's carrying capacity. As I've written far too many times, the evidence of this is indisputable and a good deal of it is even visible to the naked eye from space. With each passing year, the date on which mankind consumes an entire year's worth of renewable resources arrives four to six days earlier than in the previous year. I think World Overshoot Day falls on August 15th this year. Six or seven years ago that line wasn't crossed until late October.<br /><br />It's not just that we're overconsuming the Earth's resources and can simply stop. We're dependent on it for our continuation, our survival. For example, we're dependent on a supply of freshwater that cannot be maintained, even as we empty our aquifers, our essential groundwater. Those aquifers were once our safety net, our fall back for times when the rains didn't arrive as expected. Then we decided not to hold them as a reserve but to use them for expanding our agricultural production, draining them without regard for their recharge rate.<br /><br />We've done the same thing with our topsoil. In March the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a report warning that most of the world's topsoil could be gone by 2050, exhausted by intensive, industrial agriculture and depleted by ever increasing applications of chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. The report grimly observed that it takes a thousand years for nature to create just 3 cms. of topsoil so, once it's gone, it's effectively gone for good. Yet we can't stop ourselves or we'll starve. <br /><br />This enormously self-destructive, perpetual exponential growth economy is carbon-fueled and, despite hopeful words, we don't seem inclined to stop that either.<br /><br />We know that with population growth already in the pipeline, we're going to need up our food production by a minimum of 40% in the next two decades. How are we to do that when our groundwater reserves are drying up and we're rapaciously exhausting our top soil? Why is there no Plan B? It's said that we will need a similar increase in energy production so that, even if a miracle occurred and we did decide to transition to alternative energy it's going to be very difficult, if not impossible, to decarbonize during this expansion in demand.<br /><br />Even in Canada, where we still have climate change options enjoyed by no more than five or six countries today, we won't give up our petro-statehood. It's become a mental illness based on an alternate reality that's completely fabricated, a delusion. Those options, the advantages that we still have a very limited shelf-life. We either avail ourselves of them or like, other nations before us, they'll simply be lost, forfeited. And that is the very path that Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau have us on.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-70802929029048266272015-07-15T13:28:47.164-07:002015-07-15T13:28:47.164-07:00"If we shed our anthropocentric blinders, the..."If we shed our anthropocentric blinders, the harsh reality is that nothing of substance is being done to prevent our own extinction, and after looking back at humanity’s track record for slowing down this beast of globalized industrial civilization even one iota, any sane and rational person would have to conclude that there are forces at work well beyond the control of any one group of people, any state, or even any one country. Humans have the dubious honor of being the earth’s first sentient beings to have thoroughly documented their own demise while arguing with each other over whose fault it is."<br /><br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.ca/2015/01/near-term-human-extinction.html<br /><br />Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.com