Proglodytes new hobby: emotionally torturing children

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Remember: Proglodytes are smarter than you.

Why?

Because they don't needlessly torture children's emotions with stories of a God that condemns people to Hell or other bogeymen to compel obedience.

Oh no, they're much too righteous and intellectually superior for that sort of manipulative nonsense.

marmar (63,386 posts)

Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice?: Scientists Consider Extinction
 
from TomDispatch:

Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice?
Scientists Consider Extinction

 By Dahr Jamail


 I grew up planning for my future, wondering which college I would attend, what to study, and later on, where to work, which articles to write, what my next book might be, how to pay a mortgage, and which mountaineering trip I might like to take next.

 Now, I wonder about the future of our planet. During a recent visit with my eight-year-old niece and 10- and 12-year-old nephews, I stopped myself from asking them what they wanted to do when they grew up, or any of the future-oriented questions I used to ask myself. I did so because the reality of their generation may be that questions like where they will work could be replaced by: Where will they get their fresh water? What food will be available? And what parts of their country and the rest of the world will still be habitable?

 The reason, of course, is climate change -- and just how bad it might be came home to me in the summer of 2010. I was climbing Mount Rainier in Washington State, taking the same route I had used in a 1994 ascent. Instead of experiencing the metal tips of the crampons attached to my boots crunching into the ice of a glacier, I was aware that, at high altitudes, they were still scraping against exposed volcanic rock. In the pre-dawn night, sparks shot from my steps.

 The route had changed dramatically enough to stun me. I paused at one point to glance down the steep cliffs at a glacier bathed in soft moonlight 100 meters below. It took my breath away when I realized that I was looking at what was left of the enormous glacier I’d climbed in 1994, the one that -- right at this spot -- had left those crampons crunching on ice. I stopped in my tracks, breathing the rarefied air of such altitudes, my mind working hard to grasp the climate-change-induced drama that had unfolded since I was last at that spot. .......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175785/tomgram%3A_dahr_jamail%2C_the_climate_change_scorecard/#more

tblue37 (12,480 posts)

3. Well, the effects of Fukushima might finish us off first, but I honestly don't feel
 
much hope for the future.

I love my adult kids, but I often feel that I owe them an apology for bringing them into the world. And though I long for grandchildren, I am almost relieved that neither of my kids has become a parent yet.

SAVE THE EARTH: Stop breeding liberals

Warpy (73,270 posts)

4. Perhaps not to extinction

but definitely to enormously reduced numbers and quite probably reduced lifespan.

neverforget (6,863 posts)

5. There will be a final war for what's left of our resources and that'll do it for us.

Thank-you in advance for eschewing all gun ownership.

octoberlib (2,536 posts)

6. Climate change or the super volcano

Supervolcano under Yellowstone larger than previously thought, could doom mankind

A new study shows the volcano’s magma chamber about 2.5 times larger than previous estimates suggested, stretching more than 55 miles and containing between 200 to 600 cubic kilometers of molten rock.

The cavern is about 20 miles wide and nearly 2 miles deep.

“We’ve been working there for a long time, and we’ve always thought it would be bigger,” said Bob Smith, University of Utah professor. “But this finding is astounding.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/13/supervolcano-under-yellowstone-larger-than-previously-thought-could-doom-mankind/

Yes, but we haven't found a way to blame that on people who want to keep what they work for so that doesn't count.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024191033

[freedumb2003b]

tblue37 (12,480 posts)

3. Well, the effects of Fukushima might finish us off first, but I honestly don't feel
 
much hope for the future.

I love my adult kids, but I often feel that I owe them an apology for bringing them into the world. And though I long for grandchildren, I am almost relieved that neither of my kids has become a parent yet.

SAVE THE EARTH: Stop breeding liberals

Hey, it isn't too late for the lot of them to sterilize themselves.  Do something TRULY good for the planet and increase the overall intelligence at the same time.

[Celtic Rose]

When I was little, the huge environmental concern was the hole in the ozone layer.  Funny how we rarely rear about that anymore. 

[Dori]

CryoSat Satellite Finds Arctic Ice Increased 50% in Volume

Polar sea ice increased 50% over last year, growing from 6,000 to 9,000 cubic kilometers when compared to the same period in 2012. Moreover, this year’s multi-year ice is 30 cm thicker than last year, and scientists claim that thick, multi-year ice indicates healthy Arctic sea-ice cover.

Oh noos, globull warming for sure.

Snow shocks Cairo for first time in 100 years

A severe Middle East winter snowstorm has left a blanket of snow on Cairo, Egypt for the first time in over 100 years. The freak storm also caused Middle East Mayhem in Jordan and Jerusalem, where snowfall levels were recorded reach as much as half a meter in many places

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[landofconfusion80]

If a mammoth wandered onto Al Gore's house boat, do you think he'd still be preaching his global warming nonsense? He'd probably blame their farts for the ending of the ice age.

[diesel driver]

Growing up in the 1970's, the "crisis de jour" was the coming of the next ice age.  Now it's "glowbullwarmingclimatechangewhatthehell", and just like in the 70's, it's still total bullshit.

DUmmies, if you feel the need to "save the planet", just go kill yourselves, and leave me the **** alone.

[JohnnyReb]

I'm sorry for bringing you into this world son.....but the day is fast approaching when you will have to get off your ass and get a job. Since you think there might be a tad bit of truth to the globull warming BS, you might want to do a little better in school so you can work in a job that has air conditioning.

[Chris_]

When I was little, the huge environmental concern was the hole in the ozone layer.  Funny how we rarely rear about that anymore. 

The one before that was acid rain.  Before that, it was smog.  It's a never-ending cycle.

[Bad Dog]

They just can't stand the idea that anybody is happy and content.  Pretty much a natural state for well cared for children and conservatives.  So, being cowards,  they have to attack the defenseless kids.

[MrsSmith]

I grew up when the threat from Russian nukes or the coming Ice Age would kill us all.  For my older children, it was all about styrofoam and plastic pop rings.  Now it's global climate change and plastic bottles.

I knew some people a little older than me that decided this world was no place to inflict upon a helpless child.  Of course, I grew up and inflicted it on 5 of them, (none of which have come back to me and wished to be aborted.)  I now have 8 grandchildren, all of which seem to be doing pretty well for "this horrible world."  

"They" have been making doomsday predictions for probably far longer than my history, and yet the world and all it's population just seems to go right on.  Since most really seem to believe that evolution caused all the life forms in this world, you'd think they'd be happy to join in the "fun" of having offspring and maybe seeing some evolution for themselves.  

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/understanding-the-arctic-recovery/  (of course, it's "Not Really Recovering" to climate alarmists, but we'll see.)  

[EagleKeeper]

 Of course, I grew up and inflicted it on 5 of them, (none of which have come back to me and wished to be aborted.)

This made me laugh.

In fact, I was sitting at my table when I read this and I fell out of my chair.

As luck would have it, I also had my index finger around the handle of a cup of coffee

No sweat, it wasn't far to fall...but I can't find my cat.

[98ZJUSMC]

When I was little, the huge environmental concern was the hole in the ozone layer.  Funny how we rarely rear about that anymore. 

Isn't it?  Hmmmmmm......   

[vesta111]

Isn't it?  Hmmmmmm......   

Only problem I have with all this conjecture is about our sea creatures that are becoming extinct.

With every sea going country using Sonar out there the numbers of these great beasts who rely on sound are beaching themselves in greater number.

Now I do not worry about climate, we as humans will adjust as we did from Igloos to living underground in the Opel mines of Australia.

However, the shift in the loss of a species can and will upset the apple cart.  Fancy if the whale were extinct, their food supply would grow beyond what they can themselves find for food.   

We saw this up here one winter when the deer population became so large that when winter came the poor deer were starving.   We did not have enough hunters to cull the herd and allow the strongest to survive, or the pregnant Does to give birth in the spring.

It is not climate change, it is the actual harm we do to other creatures on earth.   Look at Florida with all those horrid snakes that are destroying their ECO system and becoming more interested in pets and small children.

They recently had a snake roundup in FL for these huge nightmare from hell.   What I do not understand is the government not putting a $1000.00 bounty on these critters.

Long as they were alive the military could have sent them to the Middle east near water and let the suckers go to become a problem for our enemy.

To get even funkier, how are we to assume the FL. snakes were just pets let loose. Interestingly that about the time these beasts got here was shortly after 911.   
     
 

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

When I was little, the huge environmental concern was the hole in the ozone layer.  Funny how we rarely rear about that anymore. 

For me it was "Acid rain"

[GOBUCKS]

For me it was "Acid rain"

How about Alar, PCBs, mercury in the Great Lakes, global cooling, Agent Orange, phosphates, or the grandfather of all environmental hoaxes, DDT?

[diesel driver]

How about Alar, PCBs, mercury in the Great Lakes, global cooling, Agent Orange, phosphates, or the grandfather of all environmental hoaxes, DDT?

Been there, lived through them all.

Still got a can of 2,4,D (1 of the components of "Agent Orange") around here somewhere...   

[obumazombie]

For me it was "Acid rain"

That one got me right in the gut. I believed that lib lie so much I opened an acid etching business. I even added extra guttering.

[thundley4]

How about Alar, PCBs, mercury in the Great Lakes, global cooling, Agent Orange, phosphates, or the grandfather of all environmental hoaxes, DDT?

Banning DDT caused more deaths in Africa from malaria than starvation probably has.

[landofconfusion80]

Banning DDT caused more deaths in Africa from malaria than starvation probably has.

does that mean I only need to donate a nickel now instead of a quarter daily?

[obumazombie]

Banning DDT caused more deaths in Africa from malaria than starvation probably has.

Brought about by another lib work of fiction "Silent Spring".