Recent content by Murky

I'm going to take a break from these forums for a while. Too much of a downer.

What would the report look like if nobody cared in the least about carbon emissions and everyone was just like, "Burn as much coal, oil and gas as you want. There's a lot more where that came from. Climate science is just crap anyway." It's just a simple what if question. What if nobody cared?

It was a question. I don't know much forest was lost to Bushfires in Australia and how much was lost to regular use for lumber or clearing land for development. Overall, compared to other countries, the report wasn't that bad. It might have been much worse if no action to confront climate...

That's interesting. It looks like there was significant lowering of emissions from electricity but that was offset by fugitive emissions and deforestation (bushfires?). I would bet that repealing the carbon tax isn't going to help lower or prevent emissions from increasing.

I hope that I could personally decide to avoid animalism in the face of not being able to survive otherwise, especially when it comes to cannibalism (and other abhorrent behavior). There are certainly cases in history when people decided that self-sacrifice was preferable to obeying survival...

The question was, "Is Extreme Pacifism Unrealistic?" For many people (perhaps most people) is unrealistic. People do tend to be peaceful when things are going well and they have enough to eat. You can easily be a pacifist in a place where things are alright. Once things start to go downhill and...

Because pacifism by it's definition goes against human nature. It goes against animal nature (self preservation, fight or flight, etc.) How could it not have some bearing on pacifism?

This video makes you go "Yikes!" CSOBL00-30E

Because some will claim to be pacifist only until push comes to shove.

You can still be pacifist as long as you don't mind losing everything (except your pacifist ideology).

You can be a pacifist until your enemies decide not to be and attack you. Then you have a choice, be defeated and lose much in life and property or fight back.

There's a Midwest Tornado Outbreak Underway

I would do a state by state phase-in of a single payer system (with state buy-in) so there is time for the economy to absorb the job loses from the health insurance industry. States that want to stick with private insurance would have that option but they would be leaving billions on the table...

Then you will eventually because the problem is continually getting worse. It sounds more like your opposition to redistribution of wealth is what turned you against the carbon tax more than if it was being effective at reducing emissions. How did things go for the carbon-emission intense...

Sometimes your means are below the level required to live like most people do. Have you have read "The Grapes of Wrath?" If you don't like reading there is a movie version. Some poverty is generational too where by growing up in it you don't learn the skills required to escape it. Then there are...