by Jack » Sat 26 Aug 2006, 15:20:22
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', 'M')iki, I think you know exactly what I mean. I need to stay out of these "Open" threads. Too much time and emotion, for so little illumination.
You and Jack can have the last word.
No illunimation at all, actually.
Keep in mind, there isn't much else to discuss at the moment. It's pretty well established that a problem is coming, although no one knows exactly when. It's generally accepted that no easy or quick solution is at hand, and that the consequences are going to be bad - again, no one knows exactly to what degree.
We mostly agree that the future will be less pleasant than the past, and there's a suspicion that the world's population will behave badly as things get worse.
So - what might generate more illumination for the effort? Discussions of biofuels? Plans for electric cars? Dissertations on subsistance farming?

We'll just get a new thread on subjects that have been hashed, re-hashed, and re-re-hashed a hundred times before.
Until some real events occur, until some new information comes in, we're all just killing time according to our various predispositions. So pull up a chair, open a cold drink, and engage in the pointless posturing and public histrionics. It's good clean fun, and squanders less energy than most of the alternatives.