Funny sayings quotes and statements:
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The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. -Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982) We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last! -Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue). Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process.. Capitalism is destroying the earth. -Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects.. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land. -David Foreman, Earth First! Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed. -Pentti Linkola If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other. -Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth-Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22 The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world. -John Shuttleworth What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. -Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado) I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems. -John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs. -J
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fat_boy wrote:
What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. -Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
I fail to see how this one works in, even if the theory is wrong, they still did what is right due to other reasons. I'm only about half way through, but the rest of these are genuinely stupid, where as this one is just plain politics, with the rare legitimate basis.
Distind wrote:
I fail to see how this one works in, even if the theory is wrong, they still did what is right due to other reasons
Its a common sentiment. However, I would like to go for alternative energy for the right reasons: Weakening Islam, and onshoring technology and jobs. As for the rest, they clearly show just how dimwitted many of these 'scientists' are.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
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fat_boy wrote:
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. -Paul Ehrlich in (1969)
Hey - Tony and Gordon did their best, they just didn't quite make it in time.
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The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. -Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982) We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last! -Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue). Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process.. Capitalism is destroying the earth. -Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects.. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land. -David Foreman, Earth First! Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed. -Pentti Linkola If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other. -Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth-Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22 The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world. -John Shuttleworth What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. -Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado) I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems. -John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs. -J
fat_boy wrote:
In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)
I particularly like this one.
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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fat_boy wrote:
In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)
I particularly like this one.
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. -Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982) We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last! -Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue). Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process.. Capitalism is destroying the earth. -Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects.. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land. -David Foreman, Earth First! Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed. -Pentti Linkola If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other. -Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth-Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22 The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world. -John Shuttleworth What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. -Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado) I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems. -John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs. -J
fat_boy wrote:
Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity.in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion.
Helium. Have you heard about this? It's completely non-renewable, and humans are going to run out very soon and nobody even cares... It's a problem mainly because it's used as a coolant in technologies like MRI and NMR and the Large Hadron Collider and such.
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The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. -Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982) We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last! -Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue). Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process.. Capitalism is destroying the earth. -Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects.. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land. -David Foreman, Earth First! Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed. -Pentti Linkola If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other. -Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth-Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22 The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world. -John Shuttleworth What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. -Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado) I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems. -John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs. -J
fat_boy wrote:
To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem. -Lamont Cole
I happen to agree with this one. Sending money to help the starving children creates a vicious circle as they grow up and have starving kids.
fat_boy wrote:
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. -Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)
Gee, who is going to watch that no one has sex?
fat_boy wrote:
Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process.. Capitalism is destroying the earth. -Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
Well you better live in a cave and grow your own food, by the way you can only spread your message by word of mouth. Got to get back to work to pay for my house and car, so I can drive to the burger joint.
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Distind wrote:
I fail to see how this one works in, even if the theory is wrong, they still did what is right due to other reasons
Its a common sentiment. However, I would like to go for alternative energy for the right reasons: Weakening Islam, and onshoring technology and jobs. As for the rest, they clearly show just how dimwitted many of these 'scientists' are.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
fat_boy wrote:
Weakening Islam
It's a religion not a country or a region. There are American Muslims and they're just as much Americans as anyone else in this country.
fat_boy wrote:
As for the rest, they clearly show just how dimwitted many of these 'scientists' are.
Subject to your interpretation. It's easy to call someone names, but hard to prove them wrong.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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fat_boy wrote:
Weakening Islam
It's a religion not a country or a region. There are American Muslims and they're just as much Americans as anyone else in this country.
fat_boy wrote:
As for the rest, they clearly show just how dimwitted many of these 'scientists' are.
Subject to your interpretation. It's easy to call someone names, but hard to prove them wrong.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
wolfbinary wrote:
It's a religion not a country or a region. There are American Muslims and they're just as much Americans as anyone else in this country.
Pointless statement that isnt relevant to my statement that weakening Islam by removing oil money from the regiona would be a good thing. (Especially Shia and Wassabi (the hot, spicy kind) Islam)
wolfbinary wrote:
Subject to your interpretation. It's easy to call someone names, but hard to prove them wrong.
You dont suppose that abject failure of their outlandish and alarmist statements is sufficient proof of their idiocy?
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
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fat_boy wrote:
To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem. -Lamont Cole
I happen to agree with this one. Sending money to help the starving children creates a vicious circle as they grow up and have starving kids.
fat_boy wrote:
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. -Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)
Gee, who is going to watch that no one has sex?
fat_boy wrote:
Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process.. Capitalism is destroying the earth. -Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
Well you better live in a cave and grow your own food, by the way you can only spread your message by word of mouth. Got to get back to work to pay for my house and car, so I can drive to the burger joint.
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fat_boy wrote:
Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity.in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion.
Helium. Have you heard about this? It's completely non-renewable, and humans are going to run out very soon and nobody even cares... It's a problem mainly because it's used as a coolant in technologies like MRI and NMR and the Large Hadron Collider and such.
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Isn't Helium the most abundant ellement in the universe?
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
It's the second most abundant in the Universe, but certainly not so on Earth.
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Mass sterilisaiton os probably the answer. But it'll be a brave politician to suggest it!
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
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Start with Africa. They'll "need" less "help" after that. Also, then maybe my future tax money will be put to better use.
tax money would then go to more pockets.
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tax money would then go to more pockets.
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It's the second most abundant in the Universe, but certainly not so on Earth.
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wolfbinary wrote:
It's a religion not a country or a region. There are American Muslims and they're just as much Americans as anyone else in this country.
Pointless statement that isnt relevant to my statement that weakening Islam by removing oil money from the regiona would be a good thing. (Especially Shia and Wassabi (the hot, spicy kind) Islam)
wolfbinary wrote:
Subject to your interpretation. It's easy to call someone names, but hard to prove them wrong.
You dont suppose that abject failure of their outlandish and alarmist statements is sufficient proof of their idiocy?
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
fat_boy wrote:
Pointless statement that isnt relevant to my statement that weakening Islam by removing oil money from the regiona would be a good thing. (Especially Shia and Wassabi (the hot, spicy kind) Islam)
Not when it smacks of bigotry. It won't weaken a religion. Your statement makes no sense at all. That's like saying 9/11 weakened Christianity? It sounds like you're trying to say Islam is terrorism.
fat_boy wrote:
You dont suppose that abject failure of their outlandish and alarmist statements is sufficient proof of their idiocy?
When scientists make conclusions it doesn't make them beyond reproach or disproof. They acknowledge that. That's called science. When you have so many scientists coming to the same conclusion to the point that most agree you have a scientific conclusion. For people to accept something like AGW people will have to die. You're continued posts on the subject prove that for your own point of view. I'm not too concerned about AGW because it will be generations to come that have to deal with past generations idiocy. I'm not surprised when people avoid responsibility for doing things. That's how I see your reaction to things. Our lives have an impact on the world and denying it is believing in illusions. Taking responsibility doesn't mean destroying our way of life, but changing the way we get to it. AWG doesn't really matter because fossil fuels have a limitation of being planet based and not space based capable.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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Perhaps we need giant space hoover to suck it all up.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
Hrmm, that sounds like quite the engineering challenge.
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fat_boy wrote:
Pointless statement that isnt relevant to my statement that weakening Islam by removing oil money from the regiona would be a good thing. (Especially Shia and Wassabi (the hot, spicy kind) Islam)
Not when it smacks of bigotry. It won't weaken a religion. Your statement makes no sense at all. That's like saying 9/11 weakened Christianity? It sounds like you're trying to say Islam is terrorism.
fat_boy wrote:
You dont suppose that abject failure of their outlandish and alarmist statements is sufficient proof of their idiocy?
When scientists make conclusions it doesn't make them beyond reproach or disproof. They acknowledge that. That's called science. When you have so many scientists coming to the same conclusion to the point that most agree you have a scientific conclusion. For people to accept something like AGW people will have to die. You're continued posts on the subject prove that for your own point of view. I'm not too concerned about AGW because it will be generations to come that have to deal with past generations idiocy. I'm not surprised when people avoid responsibility for doing things. That's how I see your reaction to things. Our lives have an impact on the world and denying it is believing in illusions. Taking responsibility doesn't mean destroying our way of life, but changing the way we get to it. AWG doesn't really matter because fossil fuels have a limitation of being planet based and not space based capable.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
Unfortunately, Islam IS terrorism today. Its been hijacked and abused by derranged psychopaths.
wolfbinary wrote:
When you have so many scientists coming to the same conclusion to the point that most agree you have a scientific conclusion
Thats such complete crap I am surprised you can countenance writing it. Scientific counclusion is by experimentation. Anything else is opinion.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
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Hrmm, that sounds like quite the engineering challenge.