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cali

(114,904 posts)
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 05:42 AM Jun 2014

We will burn every last drop of oil on this planet or die trying.

We will burn every last drop of oil on this planet or die trying.

Billions of dollars of coastal real estate will be under the sea. Crop yields will plummet. Electricity demand will soar as life becomes increasingly unbearable without air conditioning.

The polar ice caps will become polar slush caps. Many people will continue to insist that global warming is a hoax. And no matter what anybody actually believes, or thinks they can prove, about what's causing the obvious degradation of the biosphere, humanity will continue spewing carbon into the air.

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration has opened the spigot, allowing two U.S. companies to export unrefined oil for the first time since the Arab oil embargo of the early 1970s.

Republicans cried "drill, baby, drill" at their 2008 convention. But under Democrats, it's been "frack, baby, frack."

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http://online.wsj.com/articles/al-lewis-says-were-fracking-toward-ruin-1404000837

It's difficult for me to laud President Obama on his environmental record because of this stuff. Fracking is without doubt, the greatest immediate threat to our environment.

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We will burn every last drop of oil on this planet or die trying. (Original Post) cali Jun 2014 OP
AND die trying, I'm afraid. Orsino Jun 2014 #1
The inhabitants of Rapa Nui didn't stop until all the trees were gone,. hobbit709 Jun 2014 #2
Fracking nationalize the fed Jun 2014 #3
I for one feel better just knowing that we have a plan Orrex Jun 2014 #4
It appears that the human race is either terminally stupid or mentally ill. nt ladjf Jun 2014 #5
Not the human race. SamKnause Jun 2014 #6
Yes, but they're able to get much of the 99% to go along. WorseBeforeBetter Jun 2014 #8
you forgot to add "before we even try to conserve or develop existing alternatives." librechik Jun 2014 #7
tires are getting smaller heaven05 Jun 2014 #9
Yep, most likely. Tetris_Iguana Jun 2014 #10

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
1. AND die trying, I'm afraid.
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 08:32 AM
Jun 2014

There may be occasional time-outs as we fight for water and food instead.

Orrex

(63,085 posts)
4. I for one feel better just knowing that we have a plan
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 08:40 AM
Jun 2014

If we were spiraling toward doom without any course of action on the table, then I'd be worried. But I'm comforted to know that we are diving into the future with eyes wide open.

We're number one! We're number one!

librechik

(30,663 posts)
7. you forgot to add "before we even try to conserve or develop existing alternatives."
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 10:15 AM
Jun 2014

it's a crisis economy. Boom and bust. That's how dynastic plutocracies are built and maintained. Always and forever.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
9. tires are getting smaller
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 10:39 AM
Jun 2014

we're running out of oil and killing others to find more and more....and more.....till that runs out.....and then what? Back to the caves. Probably. And those still alive from all the pollution caused by that "burning", well a lot of them will be the "who? I didn't do it crowd". Yep, yep you're right as you usually are in these comments.

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