On another topic entirely
Keith Davis
kbob42 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 31 21:54:10 CDT 2013
Alice, you first...
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> Yea, Malthus was wrong so maybe all we have to do is click our ruby
> slippers and we'll be back in Kansas with Toto.
> On Aug 31, 2013, at 8:29 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
> >
> > Should we all go join the army, then kill ourselves?
> > And, like, whatever happened to globe cooling? Remember that? Not hat
> I'm denying climate change, but remember that Malthusian claim? Remember
> the population bomb? How would we feed 3 billion. Not thaI didn't read all
> about texaco chevron and the dust bowl mono farms. A-in 500 years we will
> all be sitting in hell.
> >
> >
> > Just think of the guilt, sitting in hell, some 500 years from now, all
> the ice is gone, you see this piano dude who quit his day job, his mentor
> strkes up the band, you sit there watching the sun go brown.
> >
> > http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plpp&v=3A5Tbh_cCSU
> >
> >
> > http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xra7sDcdOMI
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Saturday, August 31, 2013, Keith Davis wrote:
> > I have a student who lives in France who I teach via Skype. He moved
> there because his wife works for a large French tire company and she makes
> enough money for him to give up, at least temporarily, his law practice
> here in the states. They just came back from their required 4 week per
> year(!) vacation, during which they visited Iceland and hiked on a glacier.
> Turns out it was the same glacier featured in the recent movie "Chasing
> Ice", about the glacier melt.
> >
> > This man is a very intelligent, moderate, well-spoken individual. His
> reaction to his experience was, "our planet is doomed". He seemed sincerely
> overwhelmed by this realization. He said, "I don't know if it's 500 years
> out or 40 years out, but we're done".
> >
> > There are more details, but I may not not convey them adequately, so
> I'll stop there.
> >
> > --
> > www.innergroovemusic.com
>
>
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