🚀 go-pugleaf

Doug Flynn wrote:
> 
> "Patrick Turner" <info@turneraudio.com.au> wrote
> 
> > Just image Canberra being 5C average temp warmer. Our winters would be
> > like Sydney's, and our summers like Bourke.
> > The growing season for food will become a lot shorter, and we won't be
> > able to export any food and we will battle to feed the 50 million who
> > will live in Oz in 100 years.
> > Then imagine the sea levels swamping all the coastal cities with water
> > 100 metres above where it is now, as it has been many times before.
> > Then we will have to rebuild everything, thus causing more CO2.
> >
> > Don't worry, a good number will survive the future.
> >
> > Its nature, it goes down the gurgler sometimes, the rises up again. 65
> > million years ago, a big rock hit earth and fucked up life real big time
> > for many thousands of years. That rock event was a big one but there
> > have been a fair few others before it over the last few hundred million
> > years. But life still went on, and we eventually evolved from the tiny
> > mammal critters back then.
> > But we then became the dominant species, and each one of use needs 2kW
> > of power to live, 24/7, which is a 20 fold increase on what it was per
> > head when there was only a billion of us. So we have become like a big
> > rock, or a non stop volcano.
> >
> > The stupid ethanol issue is one of many that is merely tinkering around
> > the edges, like trying to tune the piano before continuing with terrible
> > music as the Titanic very slowly sinks. If they played better music, ie,
> > didn't do ethanol, then maybe we wouldn't mind when we sink with the
> > ship. But the ethanol is only one problem of 1,001 others, many much
> > larger....
> > They say when sea levels rise to a maximum when all the land ice has
> > melted then the land submerged is equal to the area of Africa.
> > This implies africans will drown, not americans, but that is not quite
> > right. There will be some mass migrations and wars as the waters and the
> > temperature rises. I won't be around.
> >
> > So if yer don't worry, and let the world go to hell as it wants to, then
> > you can be happy.
> 
> Look on the bright side - we'll all be dead in 100 years....Doug :-)

Nature indeed looks on the bright side, and happily will take revenge
against some irritating pest like Homo Sapiens.

I'm sure many other ppl will be glad about your expiry and mine sooner
rather than later.

Any person who is really interested in propagating his or her genes
secretly would not mind much if 90% of the other people in the world all
died next week. Its one reason wars are tolerated, and engaged in with
gusto. Watched Foyle's War on ABC 1 recently?
Young folks spend their entire youth propogating their genes. They wish
for their children's welfare and comfort. ( fuck everyone else ).

But anyway, I'l be gone much sooner than 100 years. 

But I just cannot see much of a bright future for all mankind and the
women who urge them on about business as usual In 1,000 years things
will be extraordinarily different, and beyound our easy comprehension at
current rates of scientific "progress", were we able to be transported
to the future.
Quite a few will have the savvy to make a good profit from the misery of
the future. Someone will be happy.

I'm hoping we begin to decode the intelligent data signals probably
passing by Earth from many much more advanced civilisations of Space.
At present we have not much of a clue about what intelligent signals
from space would look like. The may be buried deep in noise, and of some
unusual type of radiation. Meanwhile, TV shows of Father Knows Best from
the 1960s are moving away from us and are about 40 light years away.
There isn't much other civilisations could learn from us, except that we
are a pretty dopey fuckin lot.

But any info from more advanced beings than us won't necessarily make us
deal with problems here any better than we have been. 
We still have to eat and shit, and fuckwits and fuckwitettes still chase
idiotic castles in the air which cost us the natural environment.

And once we find several planets suitable for human habitation, then
many won't feel guilty about trashing this planet entirely, because the
future kiddies can make a mess after moving to a new planet. So we won't
just be a pox here, we'll become a Galactic Pox, and maybe become a
Universal Pox.

Patrick Turner.