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  1. FreshAir

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    depends on if our usage drops or continues to grow
     
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    that is nothing like the world in the song..... Trump wants the Putin, Saudi Arabia, North Korea type world, Trump loves dictators and praises and defends them over America, Trump want Americans to rise to attention when ever he speaks like Kim's people do he says

    a republican Utopia


    America 2: Now with More Freedom - Glenn Beck's Utopia

    http://www.cc.com/video-clips/gm1vo...--now-with-more-freedom---glenn-beck-s-utopia

    America 2: Now with More Freedom - A Glenn Beck Holiday

    http://www.cc.com/video-clips/i5mo2...-now-with-more-freedom---a-glenn-beck-holiday

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    The Industrial Revolution--The change that made life heaven on earth

    Ayn Rand: "If you consider, not merely the length, but the kind of life men have to lead in the undeveloped parts of the world—“the quality of life,” to borrow, with full meaning, the ecologists’ meaningless catch phrase—if you consider the squalor, the misery, the helplessness, the fear, the unspeakably hard labor, the festering diseases, the plagues, the starvation, you will begin to appreciate the role of technology in man’s existence.

    Make no mistake about it: it is technology and progress that the nature-lovers are out to destroy. To quote again from the Newsweek survey: “What worries ecologists is that people now upset about the environment may ultimately look to technology to solve everything . . . .” This is repeated over and over again; technological solutions, they claim, will merely create new problems."--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/technology.html

    Ayn Rand: "In Western Europe, in the preindustrial Middle Ages, man’s life expectancy was 30 years. In the nineteenth century, Europe’s population grew by 300 percent—which is the best proof of the fact that for the first time in human history, industry gave the great masses of people a chance to survive.

    If it were true that a heavy concentration of industry is destructive to human life, one would find life expectancy declining in the more advanced countries. But it has been rising steadily. Here are the figures on life expectancy in the United States (from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company):

    1900
    47.3 years
    1920
    53 years
    1940
    60 years
    1968
    70.2 years (the latest figures compiled)
    Anyone over 30 years of age today, give a silent “Thank you” to the nearest, grimiest, sootiest smokestacks you can find."--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/ecology-environmental_movement/3.html

    In my life, from black and white TV to HD TV, from wood furnace and candles to electric furnaces and lights; from hand fans to air conditioning, from transistor radios to iPhones; from cousins and friends with Polio, Whooping Cough, and Scarlet Fever to the end of small pox and polio, and the creation of vaccines; and more and more, and greater and greater, and better and better. It's been fantastic, and it will only keep getting even more fantastic. Why? Because of the greatest force for good in the universe, the creative capacity of the individual human mind...we know how to create, we know how to build, we know how to think...and that's living, man.
     
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    Well this one is believed to be the 6th Mass Extinction so I guess as far as life is concerned this one which is warming does not prosper at all. Unchecked this one sees the end of life on earth.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environ...nction-event-already-underway-scientists-warn
     
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    Not “easy”

    It is irrelevant hyperbole because no one since a couple of idiots back in the seventies, has suggested we are heading for an ice age
     
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    Apropos of nothing
     
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    With out property rights and a government to protect them, life is tribal warfare. I'd rather not "Imagine" that.
     
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    Ah, disconcerting facts--lets just wish them away.
     
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    The geological record suggests otherwise.
     
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    You won't like it so much after societal collapse brought on by you refusing to deal with the issues your planet needed to survive then will you.
     
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    You are just trolling. You never answer a post honestly.
     
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    If it collapses, it won't be because of technology and man's infinite creativity, it will be because of its rejection by dogmatic populist elites with their manipulating of the envy, fear, and delusions of the masses.
     
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    Hell, I'm the only one on the board telling the truth. You call it trolling because deep down you know I'm right, and it irritates the living fk out of you.
     
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    And on what basis do you expect another ice age to start within the next 10-20 years ?
     
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    Who are these incredibly influential people who seem to be able to manipulate the entire population of the world?
     
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    N
    o, you are posting conspiracy theories from fake websites
     
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    The Most Mysterious Facts About the Ice Age
    Fascinating...and much more deadly and real than global warming hysteria.

     
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    Keep tellling yourself that--whatever gets you through the night.
     
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    The Colleges, the Public School system, the post-modern intellectuals and artists, and the political dogmatists like Pelosi and Trump, and even you contribute your little bit to the intellectual wasteland of the anti-capitalist mentality.
     
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    Don't expect it until it comes. Could be tomorrow, could be next year, could be next Millenium. It's like the Sun's supernova, the asteroid that's due to hit, and the Yellowstone's Super Volcano eruption, all inevitable. It's only a matter of time.
     
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    In other words you know squat about why ice ages occur and are relying on the Magic Green Climate Change Fairy
     
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    So these people also operate in Australia the UK, Europe,Japan,Asia,India,Russia, Africa and Polynesia?

    Are all the “intellectual elite” the same across the world?
     
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    I was a firm believer in GLOBAL FREEZING, late 1970's.
    Global Freezing was caused by Capitalism, corporatism,
    greed and American imperialism.
    Truth be told the climate has nothing to do with Left or
    Right wing.
     
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    I tend to agree with you.
    but... this heating is happening very fast
    and plants and animals cannot just move
    to new locales like they did in the past -
    there are cities, farms etc and many of
    these hapless creatures are stuck on
    reserves.
     
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