Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

[russtafa]

Even if one steadfastly believes that climate change/chaos is a liberal/political hoax, well, what's the big deal with switching to alternative sources of energy? And, too, where's the "carbon" tax in that equation???



Or, and I'm quite serious about this, we could -- and we could if we wanted to -- live like the Amish and live a sustainable lifestyle and thus ensuring that future generations have a fairly decent planet:

how naive you think most people want to go back to the 17th century

[GrimFusion]

Or, and I'm quite serious about this, we could -- and we could if we wanted to -- live like the Amish and live a sustainable lifestyle and thus ensuring that future generations have a fairly decent planet:

Didn't the hippies try something like this and completely fail? Besides, I'm not giving up smoking pot so I can spend all day raising barns.

[Ben]

[russtafa]

Ben what you want is a very hard physical life and i don't think you would like it,also it would also bring about a very conservative and harsh outlook on life by most people under taking that lifestyle =17th century mindset.People like me used to a hard labour ,but you or others like you?

[Ben]

[Ben]

Didn't the hippies try something like this and completely fail? Besides, I'm not giving up smoking pot so I can spend all day raising barns.

The 60s and 70s civilized the culture.
But there was a conservative backlash in the 80s because the elites, as it were, felt there was too much democracy in the 60s and 70s. With, of course, the women's movement and the environmental movement.
So, conservatives in the 80s [and today, of course] attempted to beat back gains made by women in the 60s and 70s.
Ya know, ultra rich, Christian, straight, white and privileged men want to rule without the interference of, well, everyone else -- ha ha!

[russtafa]

Ben i have lived and worked in areas that are dominated by physical labour and the attitudes towards you or friends are not positive and you want more of that?

[trish]

I grew up in a blue collar family, and their attitudes toward conservation and recent advances in climatology are healthy and enlightened; i.e. the opposite of russstafa's.

[russtafa]

not where i have worked in the outback they would use you for football practice

[trish]

Of course they used you for football practice (which I take to be a polite euphenism) and we're all sorry for you I'm sure. But you can't take your own sorry experience as predictive for others.