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People need to wake the fuck up. This is not a test. This is not a drill. I feel like a person from the movie Network. I'm mad as hell and want to shout it from

People need to wake the fuck up. This is not a test. This is not a drill. I feel like a person from the movie Network. I'm mad as hell and want to shout it from my window. News like this has me gardening, biking, DIYing all sorts, switching to solar and electric, considering the entire lifecycle and systemic effects of the products I buy and choices I make. But an enormous percentage of Americans, who have the same data and news available to them, go vote for Trump. We are so royally fucked. (I apologize for the language used here, but strongly believe in targeted use of the f-bomb. End-of-world type issues qualify as far as I'm concerned.)

codecamper 10y ago
come on.. it won't be the end of the world. There will be an aquamuseum where you can take your grandkids & show them... turtles! And bright yellow fish! And you can mumble about how it used to be! And they'll think... crazy old grandpa (or ma which ever you'll be)
- ensiferum 10y ago
  This reef and the other reefs are fundamental to marine ecosystems. When the reefs die the oceans die.
  - ommunist 10y ago
    No mate. It just change. Life always changes. You should visit Jurassic cliffs in England to get the right impression. Cool down. There was life before humans. There will be life after them.
  - codecamper 10y ago
    Don't get me wrong... I was tongue in cheek joking. But you can't get too worked up because this is how it is. If it makes you feel better, probably the same thing happens on most planets that develop "intelligent" life: Life takes a very long time to develop & it develops through competition & evolution. During this time, natural stores of energy build up -- it is nature's method of keeping a balance - without it there would be no life. Then finally the "intelligent" life pops out. They discover the stores of energy under the ground. They start burning it -- thinking there is no consequence, and they wind up undoing millions of years of careful balancing. What happens next, we don't know. Probably nothing good. Perhaps this is why when we peer into the sky, we do not hear any signs of life. Perhaps these bursts of intelligent life are incredibly short blips.

codecamper 10y ago

come on.. it won't be the end of the world. There will be an aquamuseum where you can take your grandkids & show them... turtles! And bright yellow fish! And you can mumble about how it used to be! And they'll think... crazy old grandpa (or ma which ever you'll be)

ensiferum 10y ago
This reef and the other reefs are fundamental to marine ecosystems. When the reefs die the oceans die.
- ommunist 10y ago
  No mate. It just change. Life always changes. You should visit Jurassic cliffs in England to get the right impression. Cool down. There was life before humans. There will be life after them.
- codecamper 10y ago
  Don't get me wrong... I was tongue in cheek joking. But you can't get too worked up because this is how it is. If it makes you feel better, probably the same thing happens on most planets that develop "intelligent" life: Life takes a very long time to develop & it develops through competition & evolution. During this time, natural stores of energy build up -- it is nature's method of keeping a balance - without it there would be no life. Then finally the "intelligent" life pops out. They discover the stores of energy under the ground. They start burning it -- thinking there is no consequence, and they wind up undoing millions of years of careful balancing. What happens next, we don't know. Probably nothing good. Perhaps this is why when we peer into the sky, we do not hear any signs of life. Perhaps these bursts of intelligent life are incredibly short blips.