The End of Eden, Scientist says we've pushed Earth too far

[Virginia Dare]

-snip-

A lean, white-haired gentleman in a blue wool sweater and khakis beckons you inside his whitewashed cottage. We sit beside a stone hearth as his wife, Sandy, an elegant blonde, sets out scones and tea. James Lovelock fixes his mind's eye on what's to come.

"It's going too fast," he says softly. "We will burn."

Why is that?

"Our global furnace is out of control. By 2020, 2025, you will be able to sail a sailboat to the North Pole. The Amazon will become a desert, and the forests of Siberia will burn and release more methane and plagues will return."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090101800.html

[cspanlovr]

1. What I want to know is: How are they going to blame women for this?

After all, its our fault for the first expulsion.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. May be that some benighted foreigners will blame women for this.

but in America we know better.

It's all Clinton's fault.

[caligirl]

3. And Cheney snickers at the world again....

[Teaser]

4. what?

nt

[dipsydoodle]

7. first expulsion

I take it your into fairy stories. :rofl:

[bloom]

8. I did see a book blaming women for all of this and everything else.

I don't remember the author's name - but the idea was along the lines of - women induce men to do all of this shit for women - they are competing for women/sex and will do whatever it takes. Wars, whatever. So that if women wants gold & diamonds for instance - a man will buy her gold & diamonds - with all the associated negative consequences that could result to others, to the land, whatever. I guess IOW - supposedly it's women's fault that (some) men want sex (with women).

That is probably essentially the message of Augustine's/Paul's interpretation of the Adam and Eve story that the Christian Church adopted. That men are "bad" because they do what women want. I don't know why such men don't just take responsibility for what they do. It's quite a childish POV IMO.

[Dhalgren]

5. Bowie, again...

Five Years - David Bowie

Pushing thru the market
square
so many mothers sighing
News had just come over,
we had five years left to cry in

News guy wept and told us
earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet
then I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.'s
My brain hurt like a warehouse
it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things
to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people

A girl my age went off her head
hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheel of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
and a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour
drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
don't think you knew you were in this song

And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We've got five years, that's all we've got

[demnan]

6. Too bad the animals have to die too

n/t