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gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
Tue May 21, 2013, 02:59 PM May 2013

a "must share" with that crazy uncle.

http://www.mtbullypulpit.org/2013/05/end-of-season.html
Although I cover conservation as my writer’s bread and butter, I seldom write about the topic of global warming or climate change. I avoid the subject because it has become the equivalent of asking somebody in a polite conversation if they are a moronic Rush Limbaugh ditto-head or a filthy Mao-worshiping dreadlocked hippie. The very question has ceased to have any meaning, obliterated by an overwhelmingly stupid political context that has paralyzed us all while the CO2 continues to spew, the nitrate runoff from our farms poisons our rivers and the Gulf of Mexico, and businessmen in air conditioned Houston office parks blithely plan the drilling of 20,000 gas wells in the center of Colorado’s best elk country. Among ten thousand other, ahhh, “challenges” to our survival, not to mention our hunting and fishing, on this planet.
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a "must share" with that crazy uncle. (Original Post) gejohnston May 2013 OP
This is a doomer, right? RobertEarl May 2013 #1
that is easy for the Rush listening suburbanite to do, gejohnston May 2013 #2
Yeah, we can't ignore it RobertEarl May 2013 #3
this is true gejohnston May 2013 #4
If you're in a warm climate n/t cprise May 2013 #5
 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
1. This is a doomer, right?
Tue May 21, 2013, 03:54 PM
May 2013

How dare he tell it like it is. We were raised to ignore the environmental realities of our mass consumption, and this writer rebels against that system.

The people are happy, why can't they just let it be?

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gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
2. that is easy for the Rush listening suburbanite to do,
Tue May 21, 2013, 04:01 PM
May 2013

but we hicks and hillbillies that have been watching rivers and lakes dry up, changes in migration patterns first hand don't have that luxury.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
3. Yeah, we can't ignore it
Tue May 21, 2013, 04:13 PM
May 2013

When we see something we love so much change for the worse right in front of us, it makes ya want to scream. Ignorance, we realize, can be blissful. But we are not ignorant, we hicks and hillbillies. And we are not powerless, either.

We can survive. City folks are not going to have it so easy, I would imagine.

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