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Such a disgusting eco-NAZI sentiment that permeates our society today expressed by celebrities that should know better such as old man Attenborough.

Yuck!

Post 1

Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 11:05am

It's such a meaningless statement, if you think about it. Eew, the noble narcissist.

Post 2

Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 11:14am

So, the Gaia-worshippers are every bit as anti-human as other would be theocrats. What else is new?

Post 3

Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 12:03pm

If they feel that way, why haven't they had themselves some poisoned Kool-Aid?

Post 4

Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 12:22pm

How about a program about the life of cold-blooded ecologists? They could do with the extra warming, eh?

Attenborough takes on climate change
John Plunkett
Wednesday November 16, 2005

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1643287,00.html

This is another article, he warns:

"If we and the rest of the backboned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well."

I realize that the above quotes about the state of the planet and humans may have been twisted somewhat by the media, because I always thought Attenborough was quite a rational individual.

There is nothing wrong with him finding evidence for climate change, it's just the associated unsupported claims that usually come with it I have a problem with.

But anyway, since Attenborough has not yet tried to change this perception of himself as a Global Warming eco-crusader, he must approve of it.

(Edited by Marcus Bachler on 11/19, 12:44pm)

Post 5

Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 1:18pm

""If we and the rest of the backboned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well.""

If sometime in the future a large comet or asteroid were to strike the earth most species on earth would likely become extinct. Humans are the only species on earth potentially capable of preventing this type of event from occurring.

Post 6

Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 2:51pm

Or moving away if need be...

Post 7

Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 3:39pm

That would be a later step: surviving the death of the sun.

Post 8

Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 5:25pm

Which sun? - by Sol's time, we'd be controlling it, using it, even fueling it if wished...

Post 9

Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 12:41pm

I would say to someone like Mr. Attenborough that even if an asteroid struck earth and extinguished ALL forms of life, one could still as validly say "the rest of the world would get on pretty well".

Post 10

Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 4:24pm

Yes - you could say it's in its nature...

Post 11

Monday, November 21, 2005 - 1:18am

"I would say to someone like Mr. Attenborough that even if an asteroid struck earth and extinguished ALL forms of life.."

That's true. Attenborough seems to have just wanted to "sex-up" his new documentary by stressing the importance of insects.

However, I find his evidence for global warming flawed. If an event now happens either two weeks earlier or later in an insects life-cycle that would be an argument for climate variation over years perhaps - but why a general "global warming"?

I think he has become biased into arriving at that conclusion.

Post 12

Monday, November 21, 2005 - 2:14pm

Perhaps his observation was referring to the damage humans have done,or must we ignore this?

Post 13

Monday, November 21, 2005 - 2:29pm

If they feel that way, why haven't they had themselves some poisoned Kool-Aid?

Oh, they never mean to include themselves when they say shit like that... :)

Post 14

Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 5:18pm

Oh, they never mean to include themselves when they say shit like that... :)

At least that's what they tell themselves to avoid a full on James Taggart style breakdown.

---Landon

Post 15

Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 11:20pm

Landon,

I have only seen in real life a "full on James Taggart style breakdown" once. It was my former father-in-law and I wrote about him here.

Most of the evil bastards and evaders I have seen, though, have stayed that way. I have seen some of them reform and turn over a new leaf. But a person breaking down like James Taggart did at the end of Atlas Shrugged seems to be extremely rare in life.

(In Brazil, there is a very ugly saying about prostitutes. They say that a whore never turns over a new leaf. She just takes some time off sometimes. //;-)

Michael

Post 16

Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 9:49am