On and on it will go, until they switch to " Nothing can be done" "Too Late, Suckers" "need more coal to run those air conditioners!"

The deniers and FF industry (and their paid lackeys) will have the blood of billions on their hands.

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Everything about our current political and economic systems should be geared toward combating this problem. Instead, there is a very active and somewhat successful campaign to get people to doubt what is really happening, or at least the severity of it, and by the time everyone wakes up it may be too late.

to survive in a biosphere that has existed more or less in its present form over 200,000 to 300,000 years. If it changes as radically as looks likely, all previous "extinctions" will appear trifling in comparison.

We are whistling in the dark if we think that 'technology' can save us.

Guaranteed suffering and extinction for millions of lifeforms. All obfuscated, ignored and discredited by corporations, corporate media and corporate politicians who do all they can to deny reality in exchange for a taste of sweet money and assured future access.

Well, maybe not caring at all is a little harsh. They care just as much as an abolitionist slave owner.

They'd like to free the slaves, but then how would the plantation stay afloat? Who would do the work?

I feel the moral issues behind those battles not only mirror each other quite well, but are at the very least, morally equivalent in action or inaction.

They both by acceptance and defeat will lead to the assured misery of all born under it.

They both profit and give power to the most hateful people in existence. Those who would gain from others pain.

They cannot be ended by voting. Slavery wasn't ended by voting, it was ended by good people who refused to profit from evil and far from being passive, not just not owning or profiting from slave trade, actually worked against it.

There are those who have a conscience, who have empathy towards humanity, towards the natural world and all its wonders and there are those who champion the needs of themselves, of Wall St, over all others.

If there were ever a call to action. A plea for good people to act. Not just for human life, but for virtually every species, for the world they want to be bestowed on our young. It is now, today.

There's not a person I've ever met that really has any idea of how to deal with this. So the result is that nothing is done, it's pushed aside, as we hurtle toward the inevitable.

Of course, most don't care because they can't see beyond next week's profit forecast. But some make money on disruption and disturbance. I have seen it mentioned that the big banks and hedge funds hate a static market, as they make their bucks on change. And disruption makes money for those who have no souls. I am sure the arms manufacturers and arms dealers are making fortunes on the misery in Syria and Iraq.

That is one of the things that makes Wall St so insidious. They plan out and create shortages and false demands. They drive more drilling, they drive more waste, they work on it in secret with the best young minds our universities can churn out who are more than happy to figure out new ways to cheat us all in exchange for blood money.

There is no honesty or integrity anymore, if there ever was. Just winks, nods and stifled giggles between those in the know and assured misery, crippling pain, austerity and death for those who have to live in the real world with the results of the actions they undertake everyday.

Haven't you heard the news, spread on reputable websites like WattsUpWithThat and Free Republic?

It's all a liberal lie, and I'm not buying it!

If you need me, I'll be outside wearing a parka, inside my down-lined sleeping bag. The weatherman said it's 100F in the shade, but I'm sure he's been paid off by Al Gore as well.

It's not just the heat, but the humidity as well: http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2010/100504HuberLimits.html

Thanks for the thread, Surya Gayatri.

And if you believe that, you're cyc!