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Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 12:02 pm
by KUTradition
on the heels of this recent report from WWF

https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-rel ... wwf-report

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 12:03 pm
by TDub
KUTradition wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 12:02 pm
on the heels of this recent report from WWF

https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-rel ... wwf-report
yuck. I'll never see the wildlife my grandparents saw.....my grandkids may never see any outside a zoo.

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 12:12 pm
by pdub
StayCurious saw two squirrels and a meadowlark today so everything is fine.
He's trusting his reality.

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 12:24 pm
by ousdahl
StayCurious reminds me of a certain comes-and-goes poster.

I'm tempted to suggest one of the previous user names

but maybe it's better to just...remain inquisitive...about StayCurious instead...

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:18 pm
by TDub
i dont believe its a crustacean.

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:55 pm
by jhawks99
Prolly psych

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 2:37 pm
by ousdahl
yea.

I'm curious about the idea of throwing soup on a CEO as a protest statement, more so than on some famous old art. It's not like the one reaping record oil profits is Van Gogh.

I'm guessing that would go from a vandalism charge to full on assault, though? among other potential issues.

If we're gonna make some push against oil, and do so within the status quo...could we, say, somehow build some legal case against oil CEO types that they've been defrauding us for years? They've known oil is bad for a long ass time and, at the very least, did a lot to downplay that anyway...right?

Who would even bring that case? DoJ and state AGs? Some interest group? Some bigger international authority yet? Congress? even if they have some legal ability (not even sure they do), but even if they did, the average congressman is so flush with oil lobby cash that they're not gonna bite the hand that feeds any time soon, right?

Or perhaps...if we may go full Qusdahl...could the better solution come from outside some status quo instead?

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 2:50 pm
by MICHHAWK
i become skeptical when the protestors hang around to take selfies and sign autographs. i think that was more tiktok challenge .

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 10:11 am
by KUTradition
apparently due to climate change, and change-induced cannibalism

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:16 am
by KUTradition

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2022 7:49 am
by MICHHAWK
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yuck. I'll never see the wildlife my grandparents saw.....my grandkids may never see any outside a zoo.
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On my walk yesterday I saw:

4 turkeys
2 herrons
1 swan
1 deer
1 turtle
1 frog
Countless geese and ducks

I am a grandparent. So maybe that’s why.

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2022 10:09 am
by KUTradition
Image

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2022 10:12 am
by jhawks99
I always thought it was Gohmert who pulled that stunt.

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:36 am
by KUTradition

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:29 pm
by KUTradition
https://gizmodo.com/rich-countries-keep ... ce=msnlink

i don’t know what’s worse…two-faced politicians or the masses more worried about short-term gas prices than our collective long-term health

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:10 pm
by randylahey
Gas and oil has little to do with it.

If we want to be brutally honest. The main cause of the downfall of biodiversity is us feeding ourselves. Animal agriculture is the leading cause of habitat loss, species extinction, pollution of the oceans, destruction of the rainforest. All of it comes back to that

Fossil fuels are minor compared to that

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:36 am
by KUTradition
you should get out more

1) agriculture in general, not just animal agriculture, is only part of the larger issue of habitat loss and change

2) the fossil fuel industry is more than just oil and gas

3) the issues threatening biodiversity are absolutely inter-related, and imo must be treated as such

4) climate will only increase in its impact on species’ viability. we’re vastly lacking in data on individual species’ climate/environmental niches, making the actual current effect a likely underestimate (most of those species for which we do have data support this supposition)

5) as with climate in general, implications from things like microplastics (hello fossil fuel industry) are still largely unknown, for both humans and non-humans

6) the point of the article was point out the failings of the “world leaders” to actually lead and follow through with their pledges

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:42 am
by KUTradition

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:45 am
by MICHHAWK
it has been in the 70's where i live these last several days. the climate is perfect for this time of year.

Re: an even more frightening perspective

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:54 am
by KUTradition
MICHHAWK wrote: Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:45 am it has been in the 70's where i live these last several days. the climate is perfect for this time of year.
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1494&p=289460#p289460

(not climate, ignoramus)