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Re: Murray-Darling Basin

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From: Peter Webb
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:08
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>> If this is how you feel about the future, my advice is see a doctor.
>>
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>
> #  Doomsayers tend to be refuted by events, or lack thereof.
>    I assume Al Gore obtained his data from scientists, or he wouldn't have 
> stuck his neck out as he did.
>   When you get someone as astute as Dick Smith taking up the human 
> population issue, then there may be a case.
>    I became a Prophet of Doom partly to offset the Deniers and Skeptics 
> who think there's No Problemo.  These starry-eyed Optimists don't see 
> anything wrong with the exponential growth of human population since 1800 
> AD, nor in not recycling air pollution, instead of discharging it, like 
> raw sewage, into the atmosphere.
>    How's the Amazon Jungle going - going, going, gone?
>    Dams-on-the-Mekong is next on the agenda.
>    "Ain't Progress fine?" said the Lemmings, as they became airborne. 
> Human inertia will probably carry us over the cliff - if it is already too 
> little, too late.
>    Most biological species which have ever existed are extinct, so Homo 
> Sapiens will probably join the vast majority.  It is just a matter of 
> sooner - or later.
>    On the tombstone, we may write: "All his own work".  But then, who'd be 
> around to write it?
>    Nature probably enjoys a grim joke, and the Vain Ape is it.
>    The next few decades will be crucial....

No they won't.

The next few decades will be much the same as the last few.

You are an un-informed loser who simply invents reasons why the world is in 
bad shape. Its not. Pretty much everything you say is crap.

Don't bother seeing a doctor. If this is how you really feel, then just kill 
yourself now. Please. You are such a depressing, boring and pompous twat 
that nobody will miss you.
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