tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post7089616892515734618..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Chris Hayes Enables the Anti-Ecologism of "Reasonable" RepublicansDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-11937186354611041072012-04-21T17:43:01.003-07:002012-04-21T17:43:01.003-07:00I suppose eventually all the stages will be underw...I suppose eventually all the stages will be underwater...Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-70149048883739505712012-04-21T17:39:56.213-07:002012-04-21T17:39:56.213-07:00A tipping point in understanding and seriousness m...A tipping point in understanding and seriousness might come in the next few years. The deniers are having to move to later stages of denial. They may run out of stages.jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-79285372138639577972012-04-21T16:06:26.539-07:002012-04-21T16:06:26.539-07:00Perhaps America will need to lose Florida -- after...Perhaps America will need to lose Florida -- after all, its wang -- before it stops acting like a dick.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-5046502030466916882012-04-21T16:02:37.978-07:002012-04-21T16:02:37.978-07:00> If we waste more time pretending otherwise, i...> If we waste more time pretending otherwise, it's too late for us all. . .<br /><br />We would have to lose a few cities (mostly, ironically if not deservedly,<br />in the South) before Republicans (and even, let us be honest, most<br />corporate-fed Democrats) would start taking a problem like anthropogenic<br />climate change seriously (or even admit that such a thing exists in the<br />first place, outside the fantasies of a few overheated pessimistic<br />eggheads and tree-huggers).<br /><br />It's almost exactly like the business with cigarettes and lung<br />cancer -- suggestive statistics (in the beginning at least, and<br />that "beginning" lasts a long time) are simply useless in the face of<br />people who would very much rather not have to change their lifestyle,<br />to say nothing of the corporate interests whose bottom line would<br />be affected. (In the case of tobacco, those corporate interests have<br />continued to get away with, well, murder, if you want to think of it<br />that way, to this very day.) And don't forget that Ayn Rand, The Greatest<br />Human Mind That Has Ever Been Except For Aristotle, And Maybe Even Including<br />Aristotle, simply refused to believe that probabilistic inference based<br />on statistical data should have anything at all to do with individual<br />choice.<br /><br />When (and if) Katrina-scale storms start happening every (or several<br />times) a year, and emergency response starts consuming funds at a<br />rate similar to that of an ongoing war, then -- maybe -- the tipping point will<br />start to come into view. If by then it's "too late" (for some value of "too late"),<br />well then, that's just too bad.jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com