French Perfidy
Sarkozy goes over to the dark side:
Translation: the carbon credit financiers explained to him what a pot of gold he was passing up, so he "saw the light."
I used to believe that humanity had made real progress over the last 50,000 years. As I get older, I realize that 99% of the race is still just a bunch of cavemen, with the chiefs concerned only with having more food and shiny rocks than other cavemen and getting their dicks wet more often. We've made no progress; we've only dressed the bullies in nice suits and called them politicians, and they spend their time telling us the moon is made of cheese.
So be it. Let the world burn. I'm tired of caring.
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(Hat-tip to Vizigoth)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday the fight against climate change needs massive new amounts of private investment and globally regulated "green" markets to succeed.
About 90 percent of the money for fighting global warming will come from the private sector over the long term, Sarkozy said at climate talks in Paris with the world's biggest polluters.
Mobilizing a few hundred million euros, or dollars, is not enough, he said, adding that the international community must "massively redirect financial flows toward this new low-carbon economy."
Translation: the carbon credit financiers explained to him what a pot of gold he was passing up, so he "saw the light."
I used to believe that humanity had made real progress over the last 50,000 years. As I get older, I realize that 99% of the race is still just a bunch of cavemen, with the chiefs concerned only with having more food and shiny rocks than other cavemen and getting their dicks wet more often. We've made no progress; we've only dressed the bullies in nice suits and called them politicians, and they spend their time telling us the moon is made of cheese.
So be it. Let the world burn. I'm tired of caring.
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(Hat-tip to Vizigoth)
posted by Jar(egg)head at 09:17
4 Comments:
Too many decisions are made emotionally. When politicians do this it is bad for all of us.
It is interesting to note how bad the big lie continues to push in the media. Anthropogenic global warming has been shredded by the evidence against it yet they still push it as some kind of forgone conclusion. I don't really care about the rhetoric anymore. Science is moving along and within the next 20-30 years our technology will make it a moot point.
There have always been doom sayers and there always will be. They are the lunatic, paranoid and greedy characters in the human social group. Would that we could have cooperative players only within the adventure group we are currently a part of. An instanced version of the earth where only those willing to do what is best for the group as a whole.
But we don't live anywhere near perfect so we deal the best we can. I understand Jar(egg)head's feelings on this as I find myself thinking similar thoughts from time to time. Upon reflection however, I believe that the undesirable personalities we coexist with are a minority. Maybe 30 percent of the worlds population. Or extreme versions of such personalities in any case.
How can that be with all the apparent insanity in the media? A number of thoughts lead me to this conclusion. The first is the nature of the media in and of itself. It always makes the most noise about the most emotional ideas. It doesn't matter if it's factual or not if it gets the readers attention. The second is that if the majority of mankind was of the undesirable personalities mentioned above we would not have structure at all. Much less a functioning society. Third is that it takes a lot of effort to keep things going and only a little to cause things to break down. It is this last reason that makes me believe most strongly that mankind is not that far gone.
Think of it this way, for every ten people who make a party enjoyable it only takes one (insert derogatory term) to ruin it. Or to take that a step farther, if only one percent of the 6+billion people in the world are grief players who care nothing for the rest that still gives us around 60,000,000 of them. The 30 percent I mentioned earlier include the mindless who follow without question. So to continue with the on line gaming terminology, we have roughly one percent grief players, 29 percent clueless and then the other 70 percent who fall into the group you don't mind being around.
This may be an optimistic number but I don't think it's that far off. Of course, I may be the delusional optimist of the group here at Apathy Curve. If that is the case then so be it.
As for "Let the earth burn.". If we build that super space ship I've always wanted big enough to take the earth with us when the sun goes nova then cool. Other wise it will indeed burn eventually.
Churt is being way too optimistic. I've always held to the 75% theory and think I'm hedging it by at least 10%. My theory is that 75% of the Earth's population could vanish tomorrow and no one would notice except for the traffic being lighter. I figure 75% contribute nothing and just take up space.
RC
I might notice the series of small thunderclaps as they all disappeared, but that's about it. Well, that and the fact that I could probably get my job done four or five times as quickly. All the useless bureaucrats, whose jobs are to obstruct anyone trying to be productive, would be gone.
I'd ask if I could have their stuff, but it's probably just bunch of crap anyway. Burn it.
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