What should investors buy to keep the level of greed growing sufficiently enough? Any recommendations?
When the greedy with powerful positions realize that if the planet dies, so does their money. They will have no choice but to invest in greener technologies, otherwise everything is gone.
I doubt that they are even aware of the level of damage that they are causing. The folks who buy a new SUV are certianly oblivious, the ones who are making the big shots are equally as oblivious, even if it hurts them financially they just reroute around it to avoid it.
It is a steady rate of incline in our ignorance of nature.
Back when Australia was being colonised we cut back the entire rainforest to make way for farms and towns/cities.
Nobody cared or was aware of the maximum population that would be the limit of Australia's NSW territory. As a result today we have millions of people all living in NSW, not enough people care.
The thing is when you chop down a tree, its neighbour tree doesnt scream bloody murder and whack the lumberjack to the ground, it remains silent. So nobody cares, not even the next tree.
Remember that land clearing was (and still is) seen as progressive, and there was the general view in the past that land was wasted unless it was developed into farmland. Who are you or I to say to the entire human race that saving lives and increasing perceived prosperity as a bad thing?
I'll say again. It is a steady rate of incline in our ignorance of nature, not a decline, if we dont stop making newfarmland and having more kids the rate of decline will not stop, it will not slow down, it will not end!
Overpopulation is the major issue, every other issue (like energy consumption) is overblown and a SYMPTOM of the problems of overpopulation, a symptom of the disease of fucking. if you had 250 million people on the planet you could install as many incandescent light globes as you wanted, hell your house could be lit up like a christmas tree and NOBODY would give a shit. As a matter of fact they would praise you for it.
Everybody STOP fucking! *silence* *someone throws a bottle of whiskey*
Now you hopefully realise that it is nothing that we can do no matter how much power and influence and money somebody has, you cannot tell someone to stop having sex, you certianly cannot tell the woman down the street. The suggestion, The hide, The insane idea that a Scientist, a Mathematician, should tell a common worker bee human being to stop fucking is unimaginable!
Even our next prime ministah has told us that we need to be having more kids. The reason for this is because the people with power and influence are seeing their incomes dwindle and they are resorting back to the safe and sound method of telling people to FUCK like crazy. Because cheap labor is GOOD for the economy!! The ignorance and stupidity of our own leader is rediclous!
Its your job to solve our problems through technological means after all!
Why doesnt my child have a job!? How come the cost of living is so high!?
Why is petrol the price of a can of coke!? Why do we have to buy food from China?
Don't tell me that I cant buy a new Holden/Ford/Toyota/Mazda/Mitsubishi! Its my life and MY MONEY I can do
whatever I like!
The end result to all of this is an entire world population of
selfish people who do not listen to
reason, do not listen to
facts, do not listen to
intelligence, and do not listen to
wisdom.
But they will gladly listen to what the rich guys are saying we should be buying, or doing. Just as long as it suits
their way of life,
their lifestyle and
their belief structures (most people are still religious.) and they dont have to do anything outside of change a few light bulbs or buy a new car. I dont see many people building new earth houses down here!
And most people consider rap/hip hop music, "gettin' bitches" to swivel on their dicks, "popping a cap" for a few Benjamin Franklin's and more so in Australia, idolizing prisoner culture, idolizing criminal bikie gangs and gang culture.
Every area code here has a gang.
Every car brand name inspires love for a paticular kind and hate for another name.
Every person wants a "root from a shielah".
The problem with telling people what to do is they wont even listen to 1+1 = 2, let alone a highly complex topic such as global climate change, or overpopulation.
Dare I say that because of our incredible idiocracy we will have to go to another 3rd world war before we even question or suggest the idea that we should stop having babies.
I propose a prediction that the next world war, whenever it may be, will be over this topic, and that people would rather go to war than talk about overpopulation.
And I suggest that the reason for this is because human beings are genetically programmed to psychologically care for their offspring, even their unborn offspring, and will defend their right to fuck and have babies even if their own lives depended upon it. They are genetically inclined to live a certian lifestyle, no others.
And the best thing about Suburbia is, it keeps these types of people shielded from the reality of their own actions, Suburbia is the nursery of the Human race, and it will probably need to become a warzone before they stop fucking.
Let me throw some facts into this threads way, 50% of the worlds population is entirely dependent to survive upon Fossil Fuel fertilizers, the reason we go to war in the middle east is not because we need more oil for our SUV's, its because
3.55 Billion of us are living on BORROWED TIME!, its finite time! and the US recognises that without oil the cost of living will increase to the point that our prosperity will no longer be sustainable.
The western world is defending its way of life, its cushy lifestyle is unsustainable and the western world's ignorance is whats the driving force behind our problems.
Living in a Mc Mansion is not the natural habitat of a human being, it is not going to be sustainable unless we severely cut back on human population levels, and even then we will be lucky to get out of it alive.
People these days dont even think we went to the moon, good luck convincing them of anything like Overpopulation.
This thread is interesting in that it is a fossil record for just how strong the ignorance was a mere year or two or three ago, and just how far we need to go inorder to realise the truth behind what our politicians are doing, and why they are doing what they do.
I was certianly suprised as to the poor quality of the responses that this thread got.
Edited by Layberinthius, 22 September 2013 - 02:28 AM.
