From: "Robert Comer"
> Maybe not. Maybe we're not supposed to be fine?
That's not acceptable, and I'm even saying that as a Christian, we've got
to try and survive until we're taken home.
>Have you considered, even in passing, that all of the dramatic climate
>changes of the past few 10s of thousands of years (conveniently suppressed
>as far as possible by the "true believers" in manmade global
warming) are
>part of the Earth's evolution, of which we're just a miniscule part? That
>we were never intended to rule over the planet in perpituity, that we were
>always intended to be a small scene in a play with acts stretching into
>infinity?
No, I haven't even considered that. To use a famous quote, I will not go
quietly into the night...
> IOW, I maintain that it's a fool's errand to think that we can either
> damage, or fix, the Earth, we're merely riders on the storm, enjoy it
> while you can! control over, while buying wholesale, the fantasies of the
> quasi-scientists out there selling their purchased story to anyone
> gullible enough to buy their financed fairy tales>
I just can't be defeatist like that.
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Bob Comer
"Mark" wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer" wrote: ...
the Earth will be
> fine, but will we...
>
> Maybe not. Maybe we're not supposed to be fine? Have you considered, even
> in passing, that all of the dramatic climate changes of the past few 10s
> of thousands of years (conveniently suppressed as far as possible by the
> "true believers" in manmade global warming) are part of the Earth's
> evolution, of which we're just a miniscule part? That we were never
> intended to rule over the planet in perpituity, that we were always
> intended to be a small scene in a play with acts stretching into infinity?
>
> I mean, who are we to say that we're such hot shit that we deserve to live
> while the dinosaurs didn't? And how conceited are we to presume that our
> frail little skeletons carrying fragile piles of fat and skin are capable
> of affecting the Earth, or the Universe? I, for one, don't imagine that
> possibility at all. So, I think it better to ship a tractor-trailer sized
> diesel generator over to the wilds of Africa to help power a hospital,
> diesel exhaust fumes be damned, and save some lives that are actually in
> danger, rather than "save the Earth" with dimbulb conservation BS.
>
> IOW, I maintain that it's a fool's errand to think that we can either
> damage, or fix, the Earth, we're merely riders on the storm, enjoy it
> while you can! control over, while buying wholesale, the fantasies of the
> quasi-scientists out there selling their purchased story to anyone
> gullible enough to buy their financed fairy tales>
>
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