You do know, we *are* all going to die, don't you ?

jonnyburgo

I hope it won't be all drawn out with people walking round with bits dropping off them.

Let's hope its more like this....

Freebird

The world will be a better place without humans.

Oh yeah..

Funkfingers

ICBM said:

in about a trillion years, the universe will no longer be capable of supporting any kind of life and then no-one will care.

Will there still be taxation?

Freebird

Why haven't big mansions, multiple homes, private aircraft, yachts, etc., been banned yet?

If they were serious about this, the multinational coporations would curtail their ever increasing expansion of consumerism.

Or is global warming only for the little people, with higher energy bills and transport costs, etc..

Philtre

Wait. If humans are wiped out what will cats do for servants? That's why it'll never happen.

thecolourbox

Freebird said:

Why haven't big mansions, multiple homes, private aircraft, yachts, etc., been banned yet?

Or is global warming only for the little people?

We are all in it together. Only some of us are more in it then others

Bygone_Tones

Could it be that natures plan all along was to develop one superior species that would eventually wipe out every other living species that got in its way. Depleting all the resources on the planet to grow and multiply. Eventually fledging into the greater universe. Planet earth is just our "egg" so to speak?

Myranda

Freebird said:

Why haven't big mansions, multiple homes, private aircraft, yachts, etc., been banned yet?

If they were serious about this, the multinational coporations would curtail their ever increasing expansion of consumerism.

Or is global warming only for the little people, higher energy bills and transport costs, etc..

Interesting your list didn't include limits on children or big dogs... which are terrible for the environment.

I mean the chavvy types with 17 children are dreadful for the environment 

thecolourbox

Bygone_Tones said:

Could it be that natures plan all along was to develop one superior species that would eventually wipe out every other living species that got in its way. Depleting all the resources on the planet to grow and multiply. Eventually fledging into the greater universe. Planet earth is just our "egg" so to speak?

Or maybe we are just the fuel for a species that already did that before we were around. They came, built the pyramids, spread religion and then fucked off

Rabs

Pray that theres intelligent life somewhere up in space cos theres bugger all down here on Earth 

I do think we are pretty buggered though and I reckon that what ever is happening to the planet regardless of if we caused it or not is going to happen no matter what we do. There are some theories that what we have been doing has actually slowed down the ice age or climate change process and whats happening now was just inevitable at some point or another..

But then the fact that life is still going on here in itself I a miracle.. How we haven't already been wiped out by diseases or what ever natural disaster. So I say life remains the same.. Anyone could die at any moment, just enjoy what you have while you have it.

57Deluxe

at least we aren't starting any wars...

Bellycaster

Myranda said:

Freebird said:

Why haven't big mansions, multiple homes, private aircraft, yachts, etc., been banned yet?

If they were serious about this, the multinational coporations would curtail their ever increasing expansion of consumerism.

Or is global warming only for the little people, higher energy bills and transport costs, etc..

Interesting your list didn't include limits on children or big dogs... which are terrible for the environment.

I mean the chavvy types with 17 children are dreadful for the environment 

How very stereotypical and a slight exaggeration. Doesn't matter though, it's only unemployed, poor people.

On the subject though, everyone should do what they can within reason, that's only fair, but I agree with @Freebird that the little people do get burdened with a lot of guilt.

What's those Paul Weller Lyrics again?

"Those who play the power game
They take the profits, you take the blame"

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Kilgore

Runaway global warming, political and economic collapse. The new "Dark Ages".

So are we saying that my stonking R8 deal is just expensive firewood?

thermionic

ICBM said:

Don't worry, in about a trillion years the universe will no longer be capable of supporting any kind of life and then no-one will care.

WHAT THE H...

Ah, sorry, thought you said *million*. Phew.

Chalky

Well this is a happy thread, isn't it?

roberty

thecolourbox said: just

roberty said:

thecolourbox said:

Blueingreen said:

There was a time when humanity didn't exist.  I wasn't in the least bit bothered.

I expect it's highly likely there'll be a future in which humanity doesn't exist.  I don't expect I'll be in the least bit bothered.

Yeah but that time before we existed doesn't exist because there was no human comprehension of it

Our understanding of it exists

True I'll give you that I still don't think something ceases to exist just because those who created it no longer exist though. Reality exists outside of human influence, and if anything, the lack of humans may allow for a more objective summary or evaluation of that 200,000 years of progress by whatever is left afterwards.

Maybe, I'm just talking out of my arse to be honest.

The fact that we can deduce and comprehend things is unique and quite special, so it would be a shame for us to go. Especially now that we've stopped burning women and dying of scurvy

Having said that, there were probably legions of contented indigenous people before we went over there and commodified their resources

Chalky

roberty said:

thecolourbox said: just

roberty said:

thecolourbox said:

Blueingreen said:

There was a time when humanity didn't exist.  I wasn't in the least bit bothered.

I expect it's highly likely there'll be a future in which humanity doesn't exist.  I don't expect I'll be in the least bit bothered.

Yeah but that time before we existed doesn't exist because there was no human comprehension of it

Our understanding of it exists

True I'll give you that I still don't think something ceases to exist just because those who created it no longer exist though. Reality exists outside of human influence, and if anything, the lack of humans may allow for a more objective summary or evaluation of that 200,000 years of progress by whatever is left afterwards.

Maybe, I'm just talking out of my arse to be honest.

The fact that we can deduce and comprehend things is unique and quite special, so it would be a shame for us to go. Especially now that we've stopped burning women and dying of scurvy

Having said that, there were probably legions of contented indigenous people before we went over there and commodified their resources

Ah, the myth of the Noble Savage?  Gotta love the deep Greens' anarcho-primitivism and completely unscientific belief in mystical harmony and balance in that stuff, even in the face of Darwin's Evolution and other archaelogical and anthropological science. 

Phil_aka_Pip

No one gets out of here alive.

thecolourbox

Phil_aka_Pip said:

No one gets out of here alive.

I heard the odds of that are about 5/1

Emp_Fab

Chalky said:

Well this is a happy thread, isn't it?

Sorry.

How about we just pretend it’s not happening ?

Oh... no... hang on - we’re doing that already.


I know!  Let’s write a happy song about it instead!