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Why we allow the destruction of our planet : Comments

By David Swanson, published 15/5/2013

When a large portion of the population believes that catastrophe is a good thing, rather than a bad thing, the influence is toxic.

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"If nothing much is changing in the Arctic, why the rush to organise pie slices by the White House?"

The implication in your question being the White House inmates know what they are doing; how amusing you are Poirot.
Posted by cohenite, Thursday, 16 May 2013 9:22:20 PM
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Dear Poirot,

I do apologies, when I said “shut up” what I should mean to say was “shut up about it”

Meaning that you bang on with your scientific links to support CAGW but fail to recognize that those who need your “scientific links” are the people trying to get a new Kyoto, blow life into the ashes of the EU emissions trading market and arrest the 90% collapse in the global RENIXX renewable industry index.

Why on earth would you try to convince anyone that your science is valid when those who need and want desperately to use that science, tell you it is utter rubbish?

Last week in Bonne the high powered (sic), born again Kyoto committee met, and again walked away without any agreement.

It’s done Poirot; it really is a dead Parrot.

Unless of course you and your fellow CAGW travelers can offer some explanation as to why the entire global CAGW infrastructure has collapsed and what can be done about it?

If you can’t answer, then why don’t you keep a very low profile and reduce the risk of being seen as silly?
Posted by spindoc, Friday, 17 May 2013 8:52:22 AM
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My dearest spindoc,

Humans are intelligent, adaptive, ingenious, prone to greed, myopia and selective ignorance if their general material organisation and well-being are questioned or threatened in any way.

Wisdom doesn't get a look in.
Posted by Poirot, Friday, 17 May 2013 9:08:38 AM
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'Humans are intelligent, adaptive, ingenious, prone to greed, myopia and selective ignorance if their general material organisation and well-being are questioned or threatened in any way. '

great description of the warmist Poirot
Posted by runner, Friday, 17 May 2013 9:15:29 AM
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"Wisdom doesn't get a look in."

Thanks for proving my point, runner : )
Posted by Poirot, Friday, 17 May 2013 9:47:23 AM
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Poirot,

<< Humans are intelligent, adaptive, ingenious, prone to greed, myopia and selective ignorance if their general material organisation and well-being are questioned or threatened in any way>>.

You missed out the word “SOME” in front of your comment!

I also note that you offer no explanation for the problem you have with the collapse of the global CAGW infrastructure, so I’ll offer you one.

Once upon a time you were offered a “political conservation” fairy tale and you believed it. You believed it because so many “intelligent, adaptive and ingenious” people also believed it. They came to believe that “their general material organisation and well-being are questioned or threatened”.

They were so convinced they were right that they started a debate in the public domain where most did not understand the science, in order to create political populism for action. Some devoured the content from the commentariat and “information” links to the extent that they became self indoctrinated and incapable of even perceiving any alternative view.

This faith was created and supported by the might of the UN/EU who created a number of global instruments. Kyoto to impose emission caps and to provide governance, an emissions trading market to support funds and line of credit to renewable industries and finally, the renewable industries themselves. So all was well in the land of fairy tales.

Unfortunately, along came those “prone to greed, myopia and selective ignorance” who cheated the system, were found to have exaggerated, cooked the scientific books, acted in self interest and when challenged, failed to explain their transgressions.

As a result, those who were of low intelligence, flat earthers, deniers and mentally ill just kept on asking questions. When they didn’t/couldn’t answer the questions, the material toys the public had paid for were taken away.

Now that these very expensive toys, that we the public gave you have been taken away, all you have left is what you had in the first place, the fairy story. You can tell it as much as you like but the toys are not coming back anytime soon.
Posted by spindoc, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:00:53 AM
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