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RE: What is Evil? (Bloody Fields)

in #life7 years ago

Recycling and reuse. Don't support unethical corporations engaged in slave labor and human rights violation (Nestle, Apple, Kellogs etc.) Anyway, I can't even afford these products.

I do believe these people should travel now and see the real thing.

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I'm actually not a believer to a great degree in consumer activism. To clarify that, I think it's a perfectly just and ethical tactic, I just think it's placing the emphasis in the wrong spot. It shouldn't be up to consumers to regulate immoral corporations. Governments should be doing this stuff. Unfortunately, governments are too much in the pocket of unethical corporations, so it often does fall to the consumer to attempt to regulate.

This is good, little mini-rants by me will get my rant gland in shape so I can unleash an almighty fucking spray at the 1%. It's been a while. In fact, I think I'm a bit out of practice. I might not even be able to deliver that rant I promised. I'm a bit scatter-brained these days. sigh

First, fuck government. There is no just government.

Second, most of the reason for consumer crapitalism is that products are designed to be profitable, not sensible.

Trillions of people can be sustained at levels of affluence unimaginable today, but it will take sensible design.

I can appreciate ire at the 1%. Eat the rich!

However, suckups suckup, and this empowers leaders. People are like fucking dogs, pandering in the hope of tidbits from the master's table.

I don't have a bank account, because I refuse to contribute. In order to be here, I have to have the internet, so I pay for that, but it pisses me off that mesh networks aren't a thing.

I am not attacking you, as I am certain you are as offended as am I.

But involuntary government IS the enemy. Is there a voluntary government? Not one recognized by other governments! Therefore there is NO just government.

The worst is when government officials, as Ronald Reagan did, say 'government is the problem', and then receive the support of panderers while they use government to crush freedom.

Obama did the same.

I am dedicated to the proposition that I am free, and so are you.

Imma post on how Steemit can take over the world. Stop by in the next day or so and have a look.

Followed.

There's nothing wrong with government, per se, it's just the implementation that's gone so horribly wrong. Have you ever read George Monbiot's "Manifesto For A New World Order" (had a different title in the US, I think)? He gives an anarchist perspective on the role that government can, and should, play. My views align a lot with his. The reality is that localism isn't a solution to world scale problems. You don't solve global warming by composting and running a fuel efficient car. It's not going to happen.

I have not read Monbiot. I am working presently on @dbroze's 'Manifesto of the Free Humans', available as a free PDF on his Steemit blog.

However, any entity that claims my authority have better have attained my signature, because if they don't, they are criminal slavemasters, or trying to be.

No government seeks my consent. No government has it. The claim of it is a lie.

I am free, and have authority over myself, and every claim to my authority is an attempt to enslave me, as none first seek my agreement.

Government, as practiced, is evil.

If you don't have local solutions to local contributions to global problems, you will never solve global problems.

Lastly, I bid you examine Wattsupwiththat.com. Take the time to read arguments, and examine the data, regarding global warming.

We are, in fact, about to plunge into the next ice age. For millions of years, CO2 has been declining, as it is locked up in rocks, making it unavailable for plants.

If it goes much below 180ppm, we are facing extinction of all photosynthetic life, and everything dependent on it. All plants and animals. We bounced off that limit at the LGM, and CO2 has been over an order of magnitude higher than it is now, while life thrived on this planet.

The AGW (anthropogenic global warming) alarmists are trying to institute a global carbon tax. The whole thing is propaganda, so they can steal more money.

Look at the data. Decide for yourself. Call me wrong, I'll discuss it - but only if you have looked at the data.

Thanks!

Sorry, bro, you lost me at (paraphrase) 'conspiracy to steal money'. I'm a former scientist who has looked at some of the data and trust the peer review system on the rest. We are at over 400ppm at the moment.

We are just over 400ppm now. 60MYA it was over 6kppm.

At the time Antarctica was a tropical paradise, populated with diverse species.

The driver of climate on Earth is the Sun. CO2 not only is a small affector of climate, the fossil record shows it lags temperature by ~800 years.

CO2 does not drive climate change. I wish it did.

Please do look at a graph of sea level for the last 250k years. We are currently at peak sea level. None of those other peaks were driven by AGW.

Neither is this one.

What comes next is ice.

Verify or prove what I say here is false, and I will be happy to grant your opinion weight.

I am also a former scientist, a marine biologist for the State of Oregon.

I got sick of the institution, and am now a carpenter, because I like the work, and helping people, rather than being strong armed into slanting my data to support propaganda.

Thanks!

The size of the number isn't the problem. It's the rate of change that is the problem.

I'm not going to engage in a meta-debate on @diabolika's thread. But I will conclude by saying that global warming is the single largest threat to farmer livelihood there is.

Well, if you support your contention, I will discuss it. You didn't.

But... how long will the current rate of change have to continue before we reach a potentially harmful CO2 level? What makes you think CO2 drives temperature? I ask questions you don't answer, because you but recite what you have been told.

This is why I said 'look at the data'.

Good luck

Have you ever published? Faced pressure to 'massage' your data to support a political agenda? You can hardly publish anymore without being subject to it.

In my own way, I don't buy these products from unethical corps, I don't have an apple gadget. I don't eat kellogs, I don't munch nestle bars. I don't even buy new clothes. I couldn't even take to eat grains right now because it makes me cry knowing what it takes to make those. I want to be wealthy so I can go to those farms, and provide livelihood and not be killed by the corporations' cops or military - because I have money. I can't believe some people commenting here don't even understand the truth and they still worry about my use of 'evil' word. Or compare their own farms to bloody farms. I am so fuckin' angry.

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