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doomsday movie Good book, "The Doomsday Syndrome."
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Written in 1972, at the height of the ridiculous scares produced by idiot enviro-faggots. Like death by over-population, death by DDT, death by an ice-age(!), death by oil depletion, etc, etc. Do the leftist fringe weirdos EVER get tired of being wrong?? Wrong, you say? Countless people starve each year because they can't feed themselves with local food, and that defines overpopulation (deny it all you want with transport schemes). Also, millions of wild animals die at the hands of a human population that's too big for the land to sustain. Oil has propped up perpetual growth so far, but at a great cost that's really starting to affect balance sheets. Scientists think a viable world population may be as low as 2 billion. Take away cheap energy and the facade will crumble. DDT is a mixed bag. It has been proven to maim animals, which the Right could care less about (people + money is all that matters). I sure wouldn't volunteer to dust myself with DDT, even though it's still used in limited amounts. DDT is persistent for years, which distinguishes it from other pesticides that break down more readily. Instead of ranting like a juvenile idiot, at least get the whole picture on these things. You're not mature enough to be an adult, so where is this vitriol coming from? Did dad wean you on Limbaugh when he got home from the garbage route? You should confine your posts to some teenage angst newsgroup. Scientific ignorance is clearly the least of your afflictions. R. Lander
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doomsday movie Good book, "The Doomsday Syndrome."
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Why do rightist books, movies, and other materials fail so miserably in the free market? The same free market that the rightists love. Most of them are too lazy to read and do serious research on topics they find inconvenient. It's not just environmental issues, it's anything outside their small sphere of knowledge. They go blank when a conservation veers from simple things like money, beer and cigarettes. They're afraid to take that other stuff very seriously because it goes against their inherent smugness. Give them a sound-byte that makes them feel righteous and they're on their way. That's the secret to AM radio's success with conservatives; intellectual laziness at its finest. R. Lander
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doomsday movie Good book, "The Doomsday Syndrome."
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Why do rightist books, movies, and other materials fail so miserably in the free market? The same free market that the rightists love. Just a thought... One posibility is the psychology of liberals: Some are naturally preachy - they think they are the final authority on any subject they choose to speak (write) on. These are the authors, directors, etc of the liberal world. You only need to check out some of the more prolific mouth pieces on this group for good examples of these types. It is not important that they do know what they are talking about, only that they say it often and loud. Others are incapable of independant thought and need to be lead around by the hand: told what to think, what to believe. These are the movie goers and purchasers of the preachy books. These people are are a natural match for the first group. A wonderful synergistic relationship. A relationship that the free marketeers capitalize on by publishing the preachy books, distributing the preachy movies and selling popcorn to masses of mindless little drones.
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doomsday movie Good book, "The Doomsday Syndrome."
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Written in 1972, at the height of the ridiculous scares produced by idiot enviro-faggots. Like death by over-population, death by DDT, death by an ice-age(!), death by oil depletion, etc, etc. Do the leftist fringe weirdos EVER get tired of being wrong?? Wrong, you say? Countless people starve each year because they can't feed themselves with local food, and that defines overpopulation (deny it all you want with transport schemes). Also, millions of wild animals die at the hands of a human population that's too big for the land to sustain. Oil has propped up perpetual growth so far, but at a great cost that's really starting to affect balance sheets. Scientists think a viable world population may be as low as 2 billion. Take away cheap energy and the facade will crumble. DDT is a mixed bag. It has been proven to maim animals, which the Right could care less about (people + money is all that matters). I sure wouldn't volunteer to dust myself with DDT, even though it's still used in limited amounts. The guy who invented DDT used to eat it to prove to people it was harmless. Nothing ever happened to him out of the ordinary. And people starving has nothing to do with overall food supplies, as Erlich's idiot theory supposed. He predicted MASS starvation the World over. WRONG!!!!
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doomsday movie Good book, "The Doomsday Syndrome."
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The guy who invented DDT used to eat it to prove to people it was harmless. Nothing ever happened to him out of the ordinary. And people starving has nothing to do with overall food supplies, as Erlich's idiot theory supposed. He predicted MASS starvation the World over. WRONG!!!! I said that DDT is a mixed bag, but of course you could care less about its effects on animals. You'd rather dumb everything down to a 5th grade level and cut any negative context. Here's Ehrlich's own response to those claims about population. Read the fine points if you can muster the brainpower. http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2004/08/09/ehrlich/index1... The Right is good at citing extreme scenarios and pretending that lesser degrees of damage are meaningless. But people ARE still starving. Animal habitat IS still being displaced by growth. The entire world doesn't have to END for serious problems to exist. The all or nothing, black or white world of the far-Right is not a real place. R. Lander
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wrote in message Why do rightist books, movies, and other materials fail so miserably in the free market? The same free market that the rightists love. Just a thought... One posibility is the psychology of liberals: Some are naturally preachy - they think they are the final authority on any subject they choose to speak (write) on. These are the authors, directors, etc of the liberal world. You only need to check out some of the more prolific mouth pieces on this group for good examples of these types. It is not important that they do know what they are talking about, only that they say it often and loud. Others are incapable of independant thought and need to be lead around by the hand: told what to think, what to believe. These are the movie goers and purchasers of the preachy books. These people are are a natural match for the first group. A wonderful synergistic relationship. A relationship that the free marketeers capitalize on by publishing the preachy books, distributing the preachy movies and selling popcorn to masses of mindless little drones. Get real. That can be applied to extremists on _either_ side. The evidence is what really matters. You need to track those who keep ignoring science when it doubts their worldview. It's nonsense to claim that liberals have the corner on preachy books when the Bible has been a foe of science for so long. Global warming denial is the latest in a long line of anthropocentric delusions. If a book seems preachy, debunk its content, not its fervor. R. Lander
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