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Article #976Re: Murray-Darling Basin
From: DonH
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:03
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:03
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"Peter Webb" <webbfamily@DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> If this is how you feel about the future, my advice is see a doctor.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> # 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.
>
>
# Yeah, "see a doctor". Or is it now: mortician?
When all else fails, resort to ad hominem attack; which is why I call
Homo Sap - the Mad Ape.
Not only are we the Human Plague, but we are also, basically, Mad.
(How's that for ad hominem!)
Only our inherent Vanity prevents us seeing this - and such vanity makes
us think we are immortal, both secularly and spiritually.
We love ourselves so much, hence "God" must love us too.
Also, Mother Nature, likewise.
But Nature is a vast, impersonal, machine, and we meddle with its
functioning at our peril.
Has Melbourne's drought now broken? Or is Nature (as warped by us)
having a little joke? Erratic and extreme...
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