Au Revoir, Paris Accord?

[skankhunt42]

I'm alright Jack, fuck everyone else.

You too? Hey, that's how I roll... Georgia, except not full of Americans, FTW.

You gave us Rick Moranis, we're even.

[Smitty-48]

You gave us Rick Moranis.

Who?

[Montegriffo]

Higher temperatures in the Duros Valley is just going to improve the vintage port and I don't have any children so bring it on. Only going to be the poorest countries who can't adapt. So long as the EU keeps propping up Portugal my port supply should be secure......

[Smitty-48]

And, bonus round; the devastation in the Global South will just give us more third world urchins to exploit, I could use a gardener actually, cheap.

[skankhunt42]

You gave us Rick Moranis.

Who?

[JohnDonne]

Been watching the Lefties too long to bite on their latest scam, back in the 70's, in the wake of the New Dealers blowing themselves up in Vietnam and the associated rise of the Neo-Left, the Left shifted from being essentially a labour movement, to being this pseudo academic doomsday cult you see now, and their first ostensible doomsday, back in the 70's, was the "Coming Global Ice Age!", so with "Global Warming!", they've basically just migrated from one breathless overwrought extreme to the other. /shrugs.

Bear in mind, they had all sorts of "Climate Scientists!" back in the 70's too, and according to them, this is the Global Ice Age, right now.

If scientists believe an asteroid is coming to hit the Earth and they want to build a laser to destroy it, at what point does skepticism towards that become its own doomsday cult? If nothing happens, you can act like you knew all along even when you didn't, if catastrophe happens you can just be like, "Why'd you listen to me? I'm not a scientist!" Or everyone will be dead by then and no one can tell you you're wrong.

The way I see it: The consequences of being wrong about it happening and doing nothing are orders of magnitude greater than the consequences of thinking it's happening, and trying to do something about it, and being wrong.

I guess I'm just not smart enough to be a hard-nosed skeptic about these things, I don't feel qualified to dismiss the concerns of the world's scientists and intellectual elite, but then again I'm not a John Galt Superman.

[Speaker to Animals]

Been watching the Lefties too long to bite on their latest scam, back in the 70's, in the wake of the New Dealers blowing themselves up in Vietnam and the associated rise of the Neo-Left, the Left shifted from being essentially a labour movement, to being this pseudo academic doomsday cult you see now, and their first ostensible doomsday, back in the 70's, was the "Coming Global Ice Age!", so with "Global Warming!", they've basically just migrated from one breathless overwrought extreme to the other. /shrugs.

Bear in mind, they had all sorts of "Climate Scientists!" back in the 70's too, and according to them, this is the Global Ice Age, right now.

If scientists believe an asteroid is coming to hit the Earth and they want to build a laser to destroy it, at what point does skepticism towards that become its own doomsday cult? If nothing happens, you can act like you knew all along even when you didn't, if catastrophe happens you can just be like, "Why'd you listen to me? I'm not a scientist!" Or everyone will be dead by then and no one can tell you you're wrong.

The way I see it: The consequences of being wrong about it happening and doing nothing are orders of magnitude greater than the consequences of thinking it's happening, and trying to do something about it, and being wrong.

I guess I'm just not smart enough to be a hard-nosed skeptic about these things, I don't feel qualified to dismiss the concerns of the world's scientists and intellectual elite, but then again I'm not a John Galt Superman.

Skepticism regarding a giant space rock we can see thrush a telescope? You need a better analogy..

[Smitty-48]

You gave us Rick Moranis.

Who?

Oh, yeah, him... shit, dude, we gave you Wayne Gretzky, pay up. Rick Moranis you can have for free.

[Montegriffo]

And, bonus round; the devastation in the Global South will just give us more third world urchins to exploit, I could use a gardener actually, cheap.

Invest in companies producing mosquito nets so that when the great Canadian malaria epidemic hits you can cash in and buy another gas guzzling sports car. Win win........

[Speaker to Animals]

Higher temperatures in the Duros Valley is just going to improve the vintage port and I don't have any children so bring it on. Only going to be the poorest countries who can't adapt. So long as the EU keeps propping up Portugal my port supply should be secure......

Pretty sure the Caliph will not allow anything like that.