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Bill Nye the Science Guy - The Planet is on Fucking Fire!!! (Original Post) PSPS May 2019 OP
Whatever it takes to wake people up... Moostache May 2019 #1
Thanks for isolating this 2naSalit May 2019 #2
Nyece goin science guy!! InAbLuEsTaTe May 2019 #3
Great avatar and signature line. One can only hope. rwsanders May 2019 #5
Thanks!! You got that right!! InAbLuEsTaTe May 2019 #6
Great presentation... rwsanders May 2019 #4
Greta Thunberg, "Our House Is On Fire" Jan. 25, 2019 appalachiablue May 2019 #7
Safety glasses off motherfuckers!!! Initech May 2019 #8
Kick and recommend. Thanks for posting. bronxiteforever May 2019 #9
I guess his days of hosting a show for children are over. BobTheSubgenius May 2019 #10

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
1. Whatever it takes to wake people up...
Mon May 13, 2019, 09:44 PM
May 2019

It is so far past time to act that we are rapidly running out of time period....and no one cares.
Makes me so mad and depressed at the same time.

Humanity is going to be its own demise, along with millions of other species and life on Earth in general.

2naSalit

(86,323 posts)
2. Thanks for isolating this
Mon May 13, 2019, 09:49 PM
May 2019

and posting it that way! Bookmarked. I will be passing this around for months.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,121 posts)
6. Thanks!! You got that right!!
Mon May 13, 2019, 11:04 PM
May 2019


For your commitment to the cause, you get a complimentary pair of custom Bernie All-Star Chucks in which to canvass your neighborhood... congrats!!


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

rwsanders

(2,594 posts)
4. Great presentation...
Mon May 13, 2019, 10:51 PM
May 2019

But there is still no cure for stupid.
Only hope is the get to the mid-levels. If the cops and prosecutors start fearing the future, maybe we'll see some CEOs in the pen.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,559 posts)
10. I guess his days of hosting a show for children are over.
Tue May 14, 2019, 12:17 PM
May 2019

He's far from wrong, though. Even a lot of people that care about climate change don't really know just how bad it is. Rising oceans get a lot of the "press," but they are just the tip of the iceberg.

An oceanographer said that, if all carbon-based energy disappeared tomorrow, it would take the oceans 100,000 years to recover. And the plastic masses in the oceans are a symptom as much as a cause. Plastic has been found in the guts of fish in even the deepest waters in which they exist. Wildfires will become uncontrollable.

Even meat is a huge problem. I saw a short doc. that described it as the "Best Worst Thing In The World."

We aren't going to wake up one day and see clear skies and sparkling water. If humans are decisive, able to make the hard choices and stick to them, and in no small measure lucky, several generations down the road might live to see them, though.

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