http://www.vtimes.com/2008/02/26/climate-change-pentagon-report-confirms-global-warming-catastrophe/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:04:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 http://www.vtimes.com/2008/02/26/climate-change-pentagon-report-confirms-global-warming-catastrophe/#comment-71 Bobby Joe Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:50:06 +0000 http://www.vtimes.com/2008/02/26/climate-change-pentagon-report-confirms-global-warming-catastrophe/#comment-71 Well, you are correct up to a point. But I believe that we will not face the problem, much less solve it, unless you and people of similar mind keep doing what your doing. And the reasons are many. This is a comment, so I’ll be brief and stick to reason #1. The United States Government is, by design, slow to respond to all but the most dire and immediate threats. It is designed to be deliberative, to ponder and consider alternatives, to debate. Here and there, a president may run roughshod over this structure for a brief time. But to ask the government to implement a prompt, expensive, unproven, and drastically altered lifestyle for all its citizens is to ask the impossible. Mr. Rancher, Mr. Grocer, Mr. Yacht owner, Mr. Attorney, and all the rest are known as stakeholders. In an electoral system, they have power, and simply will not, say, let the cattle out of their pens to roam the prairies feeding on wild grasses, and hire a bunch of cowboys for spring branding and the fall cattle drive to Abeline. You yourself have in your article espoused a desire to stick your head in the ground. Just how long do you think your “sustainable subsistance compound” will last when you run out of water and the dust storms come. You owe it to yourself, hell, we all do, to do more than complain of what others are not doing. In pointing out danger and advocating change, you are really doing more of what needs a lot of doing. I’ll bet you’ve got a list. I sure have. The American Diet needs to change. Don’t eat anything that goes “moo”, whether it can stand on all fours or not. That’s top of my list. Let’s see if we can get that Michael Moore fellow to run the Department of Agriculture. Well, you are correct up to a point. But I believe that we will not face the problem, much less solve it, unless you and people of similar mind keep doing what your doing. And the reasons are many. This is a comment, so I’ll be brief and stick to reason #1. The United States Government is, by design, slow to respond to all but the most dire and immediate threats. It is designed to be deliberative, to ponder and consider alternatives, to debate. Here and there, a president may run roughshod over this structure for a brief time. But to ask the government to implement a prompt, expensive, unproven, and drastically altered lifestyle for all its citizens is to ask the impossible. Mr. Rancher, Mr. Grocer, Mr. Yacht owner, Mr. Attorney, and all the rest are known as stakeholders. In an electoral system, they have power, and simply will not, say, let the cattle out of their pens to roam the prairies feeding on wild grasses, and hire a bunch of cowboys for spring branding and the fall cattle drive to Abeline. You yourself have in your article espoused a desire to stick your head in the ground. Just how long do you think your “sustainable subsistance compound” will last when you run out of water and the dust storms come. You owe it to yourself, hell, we all do, to do more than complain of what others are not doing. In pointing out danger and advocating change, you are really doing more of what needs a lot of doing. I’ll bet you’ve got a list. I sure have. The American Diet needs to change. Don’t eat anything that goes “moo”, whether it can stand on all fours or not. That’s top of my list. Let’s see if we can get that Michael Moore fellow to run the Department of Agriculture.

]]> http://www.vtimes.com/2008/02/26/climate-change-pentagon-report-confirms-global-warming-catastrophe/#comment-69 Devil's Advocate Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:48:37 +0000 http://www.vtimes.com/2008/02/26/climate-change-pentagon-report-confirms-global-warming-catastrophe/#comment-69 Please stop with the global warming madness. The recent data from NASA last week just said we're cooling now. Please stop with the global warming madness. The recent data from NASA last week just said we’re cooling now.

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