"but ensuring that your family lives on in a world as pristine as possible is a much better legacy to leave behind."
So it is really all about circle jerking around a mythical snapshot of the world, not the mechanics or the dynamics. You do know that the word pristine essentially means new born, untouched, virgin, innocent. You're creeping me out here.
"The Earth has built-in mechanisms that can be devastating"
You mean like when Indiana Jones takes the artifacts the whole place tries to kill him?
"we would be taking steps to control this issue before Mother Nature steps in with a global epidemic (think bubonic plague)."
I guess that's a yes. Again creeped out in PG-13 Stephen Spielberg style.
"the finite natural resources that exist."
First of all, Nature is the whole universe, not the Earth, the whole shebang since the Big Bang. I thought we'd passed geocentric notions way back around Copernicus and Newton, you know the guy who allegedly said that the rules up there are the same as here and vice-versa.
Second of all, there is no end in the available water, food, and oxygen. It's not the quantity, it's the flow. Peak oilers, for all their blindness to Big Oil's own excuses for hiking up the price, at least understand this.
Lastly, the simplistic models, rhetoric that sounds like gossip between purple haired old ladies at a bridge game, and the hackneyed mythology of Nature as a beast lying in wait, make my head spin.
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"but ensuring that your family lives on in a world as pristine as possible is a much better legacy to leave behind."
So it is really all about circle jerking around a mythical snapshot of the world, not the mechanics or the dynamics. You do know that the word pristine essentially means new born, untouched, virgin, innocent. You're creeping me out here.
"The Earth has built-in mechanisms that can be devastating"
You mean like when Indiana Jones takes the artifacts the whole place tries to kill him?
"we would be taking steps to control this issue before Mother Nature steps in with a global epidemic (think bubonic plague)."
I guess that's a yes. Again creeped out in PG-13 Stephen Spielberg style.
"the finite natural resources that exist."
First of all, Nature is the whole universe, not the Earth, the whole shebang since the Big Bang. I thought we'd passed geocentric notions way back around Copernicus and Newton, you know the guy who allegedly said that the rules up there are the same as here and vice-versa.
Second of all, there is no end in the available water, food, and oxygen. It's not the quantity, it's the flow. Peak oilers, for all their blindness to Big Oil's own excuses for hiking up the price, at least understand this.
Lastly, the simplistic models, rhetoric that sounds like gossip between purple haired old ladies at a bridge game, and the hackneyed mythology of Nature as a beast lying in wait, make my head spin.
April 24, 2009 - 4:52amThis Comment
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