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Re: FormerStudentIntern.
I don't think hoping is enough, and it is most likely already too late to expect things to snap back to what, in our short little lives, we have considered normal. It's the magnitude of the change that we still have some power to affect.
What happens to the water that runs through your car washes?
posted by
Ciel
on September 13, 2015 at 9:16 AM
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Re: TAPS,
Agreed, completely! But while we can slow the process by diligent effort, we'd still better prepare for the changes we can't touch. I know someone living in Cyprus where this summer, they had a whole new class of heatwave: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cyprus-heatwave-british-holidaymakers-given-6195638
40C/104F at the beach, inland, 57C/134F--90sF is too hot for me! Air conditioning isn't available everyone, and someday may not even be an option. More violent than ever hurricanes and tornadoes will come. We are seeing it, even if too many don't believe it is an inevitable effect of a cause they deny, and so, will do nothing.
I'm thinking of The Little House By Plum Creek, where Laura Ingalls and family lived in a sod home. Hobbit holes! Hey, I like that!
posted by
Ciel
on September 13, 2015 at 9:11 AM
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Hopefully, we can reverse our course before it is too late.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 13, 2015 at 5:39 AM
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A really good post. Even if we can't change anything back to what it once was, or seemed to be, doesn't mean we shouldn't try. From the beginning of the Bible, God gave humans the charge to be good stewards of his creation. Yes, He tells us we will fail, but that's no reason to throw in the towel and just give up.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 12, 2015 at 9:51 AM
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Re: Kabu,
Dearest Kabu, there is no hope in ignoring reality. But disagreeing on anything doesn't mean you are not still one of my best and most cherished and respected Blogiteers and friends!
posted by
Ciel
on September 12, 2015 at 9:46 AM
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I am sorry if the article I posted yesterday upset you dear friend. It wasn't meant to...just to give us a bit of hope.
posted by
Kabu
on September 12, 2015 at 9:23 AM
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Re: CCT,
Well, that's why we have history books. And why we might consider reading them. Not just one, but several, to get around the biases of authors and sponsors of particular versions.
Agreed, most people live for themselves, their own needs and wants. But not everyone. Perhaps we need to know also what can be projected as future results of current decisions, as well as how decisions worked out leading up to now.
posted by
Ciel
on September 12, 2015 at 8:02 AM
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Sadly Ciel the human mind does not remember much beyond the last hundred years.
we live for the present,well most live for the near future, not our descendants destiny beyond our own immediate conception. Looking at it coldly, what happens when anything
increases successfully for a long time? Once we were limited by outbreaks of disease, or successive wars and of course starvation. We cannot keep increasing for ever. Never mind perhaps the next hundred years will be OK.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 12, 2015 at 7:30 AM
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