Climate activists climb, superglue themselves to globe at Universal Studios

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  1. garyd

    garyd Well-Known Member

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    New national geographic feature, "camera on stupid people about to die". Might be of more interest than waiting for something of interest to swim buy a deep ocean camera..
     
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    It is difficult to critique something when no one including the person uttering the crapola knows with certainty what the hell it is they're saying.
     
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    Isn't that the point? Right wingers haven't even bothered to peruse the debate, guaranteeing ridiculous comment such as climate change denial. Are you seriously telling me you haven't, for example, come across libertarian paternalism? Are you telling me you haven't perused liberal political economy and its focus on entrepreneurial spirit as a counter to Malthusian analysis?
     
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    Yup that the perfect solution, WELL, until the cancerous waste needs to be stored.

    And people fear fracking ;)
     
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    Na, Crows only eat the eyes. Buzzards, on the other hand, eat everything but the skeleton which means the globe could be re-purposed and used in an Indiana Jones sequel.
     
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    A rather insensitive comment considering the devastating damage to mother nature by the carbon footprint spent needed to pry these asshats off the globe.
     
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    So I'm supposed to study an oxymoron(libertarian paternalism) or look at something that has been done to death from every possible angle over the last hundred or so years, The entrepreneurial spirit vs the insipid dated predictions of Malthus and very nearly all his adherents past and present? Been there done that. Till you come up with something better than a increase of 1 part per ten thousand of CO2 in the last hundred years for your deus ex machina I will continue to ignore the antiscientific catastrophist approach to climate science.
     
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    That's an amazing amalgamation of gobbledygook.

    Human beings evolved when the PPM of CO2 was in the THOUSANDS.

    Now we're told going over 400 PPM will make us go extinct.

    What a bunch of maroons.
     
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    All you have is doom and gloom, much like the fire and brimstone preachers who use fear to control the people.
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    Given libertarian paternalism and liberal political economy are integral right wing approaches that are used against left wing radicalism, it's just revealing that you're not aware of them.
     
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    In the case of libertarian paternalism it is rather difficult to be aware of that which only exists in the fevered brow of the lunatic fringe of the far left. One can at best argue that libertarians tend toward a Darwinian approach but among mammals one requires females in order to not go extinct. And of course I recognize the latter that was sort of my point.
     
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    I've seen no evidence that you understand liberal political economy. Your comments over libertarian paternalism were also rather low brow. It's really just a simple notion that freedom of choice can be maintained. We just need to ensure that choice is set up to take into account cognitive biases.
     
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    Gosh... I'm stunned... you paired libertarian with paternalism. now that's a mating.... thanks for the laugh...
     
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    I didn't. Right wingers arguing against government regulation did.
     
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    There's that word couple again.. libertarian paternalism.... Google translate must be having kittens....:roflol:
     
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    I don't see one "right winger" who's ever combined the two. except you. So you are a "right winger" now? I still can't stop laughing.
     
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    You're very useful, proving my point: right wingers don't even know right wing schools of thought on the subject.
     
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    What point? That you don't have a clue? Clearly that is the case. But go ahead, continue asserting that right wingers are libertarian paternalists... I'll keep laughing... Oh, and stop using google translate, it clearly isn't your friend...
     
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    Get it right now. I stated that a right wing approach is libertarian paternalism. The Tory government here, for example, have been heavily reliant on the Behavioural Insights Team. However, most right wingers are ignorant of that analysis. They tend to base their arguments on 'hot air'.
     
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    LOL... still laughing. No, absolutely not. The conservative view of the world isn't adopting paternalism, and never will it be. So, sorry, you're making a ridiculous point, I've advised you not to lest folks continue to laugh at your comments. But here you are, still insisting on it. At some point, I'll have to stop reading it so I can at least get other things done instead of laughing....
     
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    I'm not laughing. Right wing ignorance of right wing ideas, here based on avoiding regulation which restricts free will, is a serious business. You've been very useful in highlighting the characteristics behind the knowledge deficiency mind you. Thanks for that.
     
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    When all one has to propose in response to supposed climate change is more taxes, they have nothing of substance to actually present.
     
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    In response to such a situation developing, are tourists and onlookers legally permitted to throw various bits of debris at those who are making the illegal demonstration?
     
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    Weird response, given you're responding to a comment that noted the problems associated with negative externality analysis (which focuses on Pigovian tax policies)
     
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    So what sort of computer program are you going to use to make sure they only make the choices you want them to?
     

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