Happy Earth Day
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Happy Earth Day
President's hometown makes huge sacrifice for Earth Day by turning out lights in vacant buildings on Saturday night. Wait, those lights are on...
ohio county- Moderator
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Location : Wheeling
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Re: Happy Earth Day
HOW I PLAN TO CELEBRATE EARTH DAY
* By training endangered species to litter.
* By turning on all the lights in my house like Al Gore’s house.
* Teaching polar bears to just get over it and to learn to swim.
* By turning the A/C on in my whole building as low as it goes – WITH THE WINDOWS OPEN!
* By digging up all the trees planted today and replacing them with plastic pink flamingos.
* By killing Smokey Bear, and then not doing anything to prevent forest fires.
* By buying hundreds of reams of paper and then throwing them straight into non-recycling dumpsters.
* By dumping all the car oil I’ve been saving up to recycle back onto the earth from whence it came.
* By burning a tire--to get some good particulate pollution into the upper atmosphere to help shade the earth from global warming sun rays.
* By training endangered species to litter.
* By turning on all the lights in my house like Al Gore’s house.
* Teaching polar bears to just get over it and to learn to swim.
* By turning the A/C on in my whole building as low as it goes – WITH THE WINDOWS OPEN!
* By digging up all the trees planted today and replacing them with plastic pink flamingos.
* By killing Smokey Bear, and then not doing anything to prevent forest fires.
* By buying hundreds of reams of paper and then throwing them straight into non-recycling dumpsters.
* By dumping all the car oil I’ve been saving up to recycle back onto the earth from whence it came.
* By burning a tire--to get some good particulate pollution into the upper atmosphere to help shade the earth from global warming sun rays.
Keli- Number of posts : 3608
Age : 73
Location : Zarr Chasm, WV--between Flotsam and Belch on the Cheat River
Registration date : 2007-12-28
Re: Happy Earth Day
Very funny, Keli.
Making jokes about using the place that you and others live as, basically, a toilet.
Wonder what your god thinks about how you have cared for his creation.
Making jokes about using the place that you and others live as, basically, a toilet.
Wonder what your god thinks about how you have cared for his creation.
TerryRC- Number of posts : 2762
Registration date : 2008-01-05
Re: Happy Earth Day
Here are some of the hilarious, spectacularly wrong predictions made on the occasion of Earth Day 1970.
“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist
“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist
“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day
“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day
“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University
“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
• Life Magazine, January 1970
“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director
“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
Keep these predictions in mind when you hear the same predictions made today. They’ve been making the same predictions for 39 years. And they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.
Here we are, 39 years later and the economy sucks, but the ecology’s fine. In fact this planet is doing a lot better than the planet on which those green lunatics live.
You’ll also enjoy (or hate) our article, 25 Global Warming Debunking Videos Al Gore Doesn’t Want You To See.
Source: Reason.com
Keli- Number of posts : 3608
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Location : Zarr Chasm, WV--between Flotsam and Belch on the Cheat River
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Re: Happy Earth Day
Lost your sense of humor?
How would you feel if I decided to get rid of my garbage - in your kitchen?
This planet does not belong to us, we are borrowing it from our children.
How would you feel if I decided to get rid of my garbage - in your kitchen?
This planet does not belong to us, we are borrowing it from our children.
TerryRC- Number of posts : 2762
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Re: Happy Earth Day
Perhaps you never had one. Did you see what Loyd said the other day, Terry? Perhaps that will get a chuckle.
Re: Happy Earth Day
I saw. It was cute.
If he goes and works for a place like Carbide, he will do just fine.
I do have a sense of humor. Some things are not funny.
If he goes and works for a place like Carbide, he will do just fine.
I do have a sense of humor. Some things are not funny.
TerryRC- Number of posts : 2762
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Re: Happy Earth Day
I'd like to see him financially secure. I hope as he grows older he'll be a little less materialistic and a little more interested in the "greater good". We'll see.
Re: Happy Earth Day
Carbide is long gone. Monsanto is long gone. FMC is long gone. DuPont is a shadow of it's former self.
ohio county- Moderator
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Re: Happy Earth Day
ohio county wrote:Carbide is long gone. Monsanto is long gone. FMC is long gone. DuPont is a shadow of it's former self.
AND, I don't feel too well either...
Keli- Number of posts : 3608
Age : 73
Location : Zarr Chasm, WV--between Flotsam and Belch on the Cheat River
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Re: Happy Earth Day
Carbide is long gone. Monsanto is long gone. FMC is long gone. DuPont is a shadow of it's former self.
Don't know about Carbide. Monsanto, however, is the #1 producer of genetically modified plant species in the WORLD.
Are these companies gone or have they moved to places with cheaper labor?
Don't know about Carbide. Monsanto, however, is the #1 producer of genetically modified plant species in the WORLD.
Are these companies gone or have they moved to places with cheaper labor?
TerryRC- Number of posts : 2762
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Re: Happy Earth Day
TerryRC wrote:Carbide is long gone. Monsanto is long gone. FMC is long gone. DuPont is a shadow of it's former self.
Don't know about Carbide. Monsanto, however, is the #1 producer of genetically modified plant species in the WORLD.
Are these companies gone or have they moved to places with cheaper labor?
Or have they moved to places that don't tax and regulate as heavily? Either way, people are going to locate their business where they can maximize their profits. Afterall they are risking their money on turning a profit and they want to keep as much of that profit as possible.
Cato- Number of posts : 2010
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Re: Happy Earth Day
TerryRC wrote:Lost your sense of humor?
How would you feel if I decided to get rid of my garbage - in your kitchen?
This planet does not belong to us, we are borrowing it from our children.
If the planet doesn't belong to us, then how can it belong to our children?
Cato- Number of posts : 2010
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Re: Happy Earth Day
Stephanie wrote:I'd like to see him financially secure. I hope as he grows older he'll be a little less materialistic and a little more interested in the "greater good". We'll see.
Like it or not the "greater good" is best served each of us working to achieve our own well being and reward. The "greater good" doesn't create jobs or put people to work, it is those who produce and seek reward for their production that creates jobs. That Stephanie is what serves the "greater good".
Here all this time I thought you weren't a soicalist. Silly me.
Cato- Number of posts : 2010
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Nope, I'm not a socialist. That doesn't mean I think we all need to be out only for ourselves, or that the almighty buck is the most important thing in life.
I believe in liberty, but I also believe in compassion. However, I don't believe there is anything compassionate about the forced redistribution of wealth.
I believe in liberty, but I also believe in compassion. However, I don't believe there is anything compassionate about the forced redistribution of wealth.
Re: Happy Earth Day
In 1880 Great Britain had exactly four (4) state-supported institutions of higher learning and no private colleges or universities. That year in Ohio alone there were twenty-three colleges and universities, all but two of them privately endowed. Americans, fairly taxed and left to fend for themselves, are the most generous people on earth. When we're all wards of the state, we won't be so generous...
ohio county- Moderator
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Re: Happy Earth Day
If the planet doesn't belong to us, then how can it belong to our children?
Trust you to not get it. I thought the "exclusively ours" was obvious.
Or have they moved to places that don't tax and regulate as heavily? Either way, people are going to locate their business where they can maximize their profits. Afterall they are risking their money on turning a profit and they want to keep as much of that profit as possible.
Wow. Carbide left because we didn't want them pouring waste into the air or the river. I'm so sad we regulated them into extinction.
Perhaps if we only allow products in the US from companies that set minimum wages, safety standards and environmental protections, no matter where they and their factories are based, there would not be the flight of industries to foreign soil. Unions also share the blame.
We might also be able to buy toys that aren't covered in toxic Chinese paint.
Trust you to not get it. I thought the "exclusively ours" was obvious.
Or have they moved to places that don't tax and regulate as heavily? Either way, people are going to locate their business where they can maximize their profits. Afterall they are risking their money on turning a profit and they want to keep as much of that profit as possible.
Wow. Carbide left because we didn't want them pouring waste into the air or the river. I'm so sad we regulated them into extinction.
Perhaps if we only allow products in the US from companies that set minimum wages, safety standards and environmental protections, no matter where they and their factories are based, there would not be the flight of industries to foreign soil. Unions also share the blame.
We might also be able to buy toys that aren't covered in toxic Chinese paint.
TerryRC- Number of posts : 2762
Registration date : 2008-01-05
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