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Uncle Joe

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8. Kicked and recommended.

Reply to cynatnite (Original post)

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 12:57 PM

Jun 2012

Thanks for the thread, cynatnite.

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Earth Headed for Catastrophic Collapse, Researchers Warn [View all] cynatnite Jun 2012 OP

Yup, but where is the profit margin? nadinbrzezinski Jun 2012 #1

"......might not be a pleasant place to live."? Turbineguy Jun 2012 #2

Earth in no danger, we as a species are. hobbit709 Jun 2012 #3

The life that covers earth is as thin relatively as the skin on an onion KurtNYC Jun 2012 #9

Analogy FreeJoe Jun 2012 #14

Most life is a few hundred meters above or below the surface. FarCenter Jun 2012 #29

Dr James Lovelock has been saying this for *YEARS* Mairead Jun 2012 #4

Humans aren't going to go extinct. AverageJoe90 Jun 2012 #15

Oh? You're friends with a guy who knows the guy who controls extinctions? Mairead Jun 2012 #20

Frank Fenner might just be a quack if he really believes that. AverageJoe90 Jun 2012 #22

He doesn't believe much these days, being dead, but he was no quack (nt) Mairead Jun 2012 #26

Forgive my skepticism, then. nt AverageJoe90 Jun 2012 #27

Lovelock has recanted saying that he overreacted and things are not so dire. RadiationTherapy Jun 2012 #21

He hasn't recanted -- he pseudo-recanted once before Mairead Jun 2012 #25

I think some form of "Dr. Strangelove" will probably intervene. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #5

We can't let there be a mine shaft gap! longship Jun 2012 #19

The poet Robert Frost, I think, said it best: coalition_unwilling Jun 2012 #6

I've always liked that Frost poem Mairead Jun 2012 #23

I'm sad, not for homo sapiens so much (which, after all, gave us such coalition_unwilling Jun 2012 #31

Totally agree with you here. Ship of Fools Jun 2012 #34

Perhaps we should fight back? Mairead Jun 2012 #36

It makes me happy that this is a "go to" poem for someone else XemaSab Jun 2012 #32

This will never happen. hifiguy Jun 2012 #7

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jun 2012 #8

To Republicans until extinctions occur this is fake. SoutherDem Jun 2012 #10

Climate change WILL reverse at some point. AverageJoe90 Jun 2012 #17

Thanks for posting this. Delphinus Jun 2012 #11

I think their funding is headed for a giant collapse. nt Dreamer Tatum Jun 2012 #12

Wish I could recommend this more than once aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2012 #13

damn librul media!!!!1111 datasuspect Jun 2012 #16

She's already been pile-driven by the GOP, what could be worse? rustydog Jun 2012 #18

we need a nice pandemic. pansypoo53219 Jun 2012 #24

We can maybe still escape Mairead Jun 2012 #28

Our swarm is ready, the time is right for our species to leave the earth nest behind! Baclava Jun 2012 #30

Maybe. bluedigger Jun 2012 #33

I've given up on humans fixing things. UnrepentantLiberal Jun 2012 #35