2) We spoke of relaxing the Club ban on politics. There just is so much to be said on both sides of the Puddle. Grin! The thought is to permit a gentleman's discussion that raises issues, discussion, intelligent discourse and debate. No indictment of individuals here, no personal goes, namecalling, the usual gutter tripe that we as a species should be above at this point. I admit a bit of trepidation myself yet I have enough faith in our quality such that decent behaviour can be maintained without much effort, setting an example for the rest of the species. Your thoughts?
3) I'm baffled by "climate change". Why is this even a debate? Climate change isn't new; everyone of our age has been remarking on it over our entire lives, things like how it used to snow more and more often when we were growing up. Smokestack emissions and tailpipe emissions have been a concern since we were Greta Thunberg's age, the creation of the EPA here, concerted effort in many directions regarding environmental preservation. None of this is news. We've watched the climate change all of our lives.
That said, why are we arguing about whether its real or not? It is. If you ever have lamented the loss of the snows of your youth or whatever might begin whith the phrase "When I was your age...", you have already understood the climate to have changed and that the change has been noticeable throughout your life.
I really wish the idiots and alarmists on both sides of this would just shut up, quit the divisiveness and denial, and come together with purpose. This isn't anything new or anything that should be a surprise. It damn sure shouldn't be a tool for the politicians of either stripe to sow discord amongst the ignorant and gain rabid followers on the road to power.
I don't care what ignorant people "believe". I'm interested in what educated people "think". Ignorance is voluntary, as anyone can learn if one so chooses. If you choose to be an ignoramus, you can still be a wise man simply by accepting what the thinkers might conclude as probably pretty valid. "Belief" is something to be clutched by the idiot because he will not or cannot "think", and no significant advance in the story of humanity has ever been made by a moron.
So, if the "smart" people think there is a danger here, they're not being somehow elitist. There probably is a danger here. If those same people think there are ways to at least slow the progress of climate change by acting on some of the things we as a species have been doing during the Machine Age especially, why are we arguing rather than doing such things.
While we're on truly stupid arguments, here's a thought. While things like EVs won't eliminate our signature, the partial mitigation of that signature that results is something tangible we can do now, so not doing something of this nature at all because it isn't a "complete" solution really is lunacy. Doing so even though it isn't a complete solution is called progress.
Make no mistake, humanity will die off like the dinosaurs, and the Earth will continue on just as it existed before humans. I'm perhaps a fatalist, but its inevitable that humanity leaves as it came.
However, why be stupid about it? Whether this is Mother Earth shrugging off an annoying phylum as she is wont to do from time to time, the second coming of Christ, or whatever you want to believe (there's that word again), we are going to die off far sooner than we need to just because we're squabbling amongst ourselves, the ultimate stupidity.
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