Leo
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yeah well kind of hard for farmers to grow food to feed the world in those conditions, we can all enjoy surviving on dried twigs and grasshoppers I guess.
Are We Frightened?
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- and time moves slow when you count it bricking it corpsey's law goats and scrub its arse u weirdo karla's marksed arse lyrical smokescreen evasion someone's always on my tracks there once was a young man from ankara who was a terrific wankerer x he read too much marx x was a pain in the ass y you forget freud z and now the forum's cantankerous
yeah well kind of hard for farmers to grow food to feed the world in those conditions, we can all enjoy surviving on dried twigs and grasshoppers I guess.
version
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I know some people respect him as an author but his greatest talent appears to be putting his foot in his mouth.
Leo
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you're joking, right?
climate change (or should we say capitalist climate change) has been a huge threat in the east, but the current west centred outrage about is a moral panic is what I'm saying. we've viscerally known its fucked for ages, we didn't just notice it in the last few years outside the abstract realm.
whats so confusing? just saying yes, it's a huge threat but i don't understand the outrage from 2017-19 that has skyrocketed. sounds like super anglo guilt. why no outrage when they were burning villages in turkey and iraq in the 90s for their construction projects?
Leo
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c'mon, third, that's argument creep: expanding the scope of your argument well beyond your original point and what I reacted to. it's also a case of whataboutism. problems are always going to receive greater attention once their impact is felt by a greater number of people.
no, my original point was that I'm not frightened because a spike in temperatures doesn't indicate a climate catastrophe for me, aridification does. we grow fruits in 50 degree temperatures all the time, because we have a wet climate as well. it's not just about heat.
pattycakes_
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The scriptures hath spoketh
pattycakes_
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So it's OK if the ice melts? Cool
oh ffs use your brain, man! that's not what i was saying. you've travelled to morocco, you know how swelteringly hot it can get there whilst people still growing their shit. what I was protesting against is people in the UK and US saying oh the heat is so hot blah blah, as if now they understand it. they don't.
and no, I'm not a denialist but I'm not frightened. I'm cynical. is that wrong? is it wrong for me to feel that most people would rather invent a new religion or a new tribalistic political faith to keep themselves going rather than sitting down and actually strategising for the future? the death drive in psychology is real, after all. we all feel the pull of it, we all want to self-destruct in certain ways.