We'll regret not caring more about the planet

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BartenderElite

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And that's 100% truth. Future generations will look back & lament how this wasn't out #1 priority. They'll talk about how the warning signs were all around us, and we just ignored them: mass extinction, loss of habitat, droughts, storms, polar melt. They'll ask how we could have possibly thought any of this was sustainable. They'll think we were shortsighted, and stupid.

Most of all, they'll wonder how in the world it all became so political, so fast. How it could have possibly been a right/left thing, when all of us have a stake in the outcome.

Our future won't be pleasant. It may (or may not) be survivable - but it's all very predictable right now. And all of the other issues that we debate here, day in & day out? Pretty meaningless if we don't take care of our home.
 
BartenderElite said:
And that's 100% truth. Future generations will look back & lament how this wasn't out #1 priority. They'll talk about how the warning signs were all around us, and we just ignored them: mass extinction, loss of habitat, droughts, storms, polar melt. They'll ask how we could have possibly thought any of this was sustainable. They'll think we were shortsighted, and stupid.

Most of all, they'll wonder how in the world it all became so political, so fast. How it could have possibly been a right/left thing, when all of us have a stake in the outcome.

Our future won't be pleasant. It may (or may not) be survivable - but it's all very predictable right now. And all of the other issues that we debate here, day in & day out? Pretty meaningless if we don't take care of our home.
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Well,......you could buy a horse and sell your car,...or walk even. You could light your home with candles, not have AC. There are a lot of things YOU personally can do. Can you tell me what YOU personally are doing?
 
Stone said:
Well,......you could buy a horse and sell your car,...or walk even. You could light your home with candles, not have AC. There are a lot of things YOU personally can do. Can you tell me what YOU personally are doing?
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I'm a conservationist. I live my life as minimally as I can. Hope that's okay.
 
I am a righty. Here is what I did in just the last few years before there was even a gas crisis.

One of our cars is a hybrid. Gets around 47 miles to the gallon.

I added insulation AND put a new roof on our home.

I put in a new high efficiency furnace.

So Bartender,.....what have you done?
 
BartenderElite said:
And that's 100% truth. Future generations will look back & lament how this wasn't out #1 priority. They'll talk about how the warning signs were all around us, and we just ignored them: mass extinction, loss of habitat, droughts, storms, polar melt. They'll ask how we could have possibly thought any of this was sustainable. They'll think we were shortsighted, and stupid.

Most of all, they'll wonder how in the world it all became so political, so fast. How it could have possibly been a right/left thing, when all of us have a stake in the outcome.

Our future won't be pleasant. It may (or may not) be survivable - but it's all very predictable right now. And all of the other issues that we debate here, day in & day out? Pretty meaningless if we don't take care of our home.
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Alan Watts called it in the late 50's.

But what we are doing now, attempting to strangle civilization to "Save the Planet", wont work and is insane.
 
Stone said:
I am a righty. Here is what I did in just the last few years before there was even a gas crisis.

One of our cars is a hybrid. Gets around 47 miles to the gallon.

A added insulation AND put a new roof on our home.

I put in a new high efficiency furnace.

So Bartender,.....what have you done?
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As I said - I live my life as minimally as possible.

You're proving my point from the OP. Do you think trying for gotcha's and making it more political is helping the planet?
 
Stone said:
Can you list what you have done.....OR NOT?
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Sure, I can.

But what's the point? I don't have a thing to prove to you.

If you don't care about the planet, or think we're living sustainably - this probably isn't the thread for you.

You're trying for a gotcha. I won't entertain it.
 
BartenderElite said:
Sure, I can.

But what's the point? I don't have a thing to prove to you.

If you don't care about the planet, or think we're living sustainably - this probably isn't the thread for you.

You're trying for a gotcha. I won't entertain it.
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Talk is cheap son. Life is about backing up THE TALK. Doers do and talkers talk.
 
Stone said:
Talk is cheap son. Life is about backing up THE TALK. Doers do and talkers talk.
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I do plenty. I'll say that much. But what I do won't make a goddamned bit of difference. Systemic change is what is needed.

I actually can't stand leftist environmentalists who beat their chests about the car they drive, or riding a bike to work, or the recycling they do, or their minimal carbon footprint. It's meaningless. We won't save the planet through individual conservation.
 
I saw a report yesterday that of something like 37 samples of snow from Antarctica recently taken all 37 have microplastics, many different types.
 
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