Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumHey, I made the "A" list!
OK, so I'm in last place, but at least I'm there!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/28/1190622/-Climate-Change-Abolitionists-Who-is-fighting-for-a-more-sustainable-world
Here we have a selection of climate change abolitionists, those engaging in an uphill battle to challenge the broken systems that threaten our survival. As you can see, we've left eighteen spaces blank - these are for your suggestions.
Well, I can tell you who definitely shouldn't be considered, under any circumstances:
1.)Guy McPherson
2.)Kevin Anderson
3.)David Wasdell
4.)Malcolm Light
5.)Paul Chefurka-This guy's a little hard to describe....also a doomer, and a really strange fellow, too(as if most doomers weren't already a little wacky), and the only Canadian on this blacklist. Particularly notable "contributor" over at the DU's Environment & Energy section.
Well, I'm just happy to have been un-nominated. Im glad he considers me strange, and I wouldnt join the bunch of hopeless hopefuls the Guardian is recommending if my life depended on it
Im currently working on an explanation of how the Four Laws of Thermodynamics (yes, Virginia there is a 4th LoT) have made the current shape of the world essentially inevitable since oxygen first appeared in Earths atmosphere. Oh, and why those same laws make it next to impossible to reduce consumption, population, climate change and the corporatization of the world. And why the very popular humanocentric view of the world is a much deeper crock of shit than we can even begin to imagine. And how the 4LoT makes a mockery of the concepts of free will and human agency.
So yes, Ill happily cop to being strange...
wtmusic
(39,166 posts)You seem as proactive as you are inactive. Your ahem, uniqueness comes from your fascination with plotting the end of the human race.
Like a guy I know who was a Zapruder junkie. He did a more "thorough" analysis the JFK assassination film than the Warren Commission, and found enough bullets to empty all the revolvers in Dallas that day.
Whatever flutes your bute.
cprise
(8,445 posts)Plotting the end of humanity is what the Christian millennialists that I grew up around do with relish. Its like a free pass for being able to express an endless stream of schadenfreude at anyone, though this is often thinly camoflaged as concern with the "we're praying for you" spiel.
Over the years I've encountered a number of other supposedly non-traditional, futurist or exotic mindsets that are scarcely any different from what conservative Baptists believe in many respects-- and the largest area of common ground is the misanthropic fatalism that they preach.
Note to GG: Don't be surprised if someday, as a species determinist, your views are generally elided with ethnic determinism, social darwinism and other pseudo-scientific 'inevitabilities'. You may live to see it.
CRH
(1,553 posts)To be placed within the same disapproval of Kevin Anderson and David Wasdell put you in perfect company to have the last laugh, if anyone is left around to chuckle. And being strange in these times is in no way slanderous, it is analogous with being a free and creative thinker. Congratulations.
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I knew my ability to rub people the wrong way would come in handy some day!
CRH
(1,553 posts)on the same subject.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1127&pid=37526
phantom power
(25,966 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)and I'm definitely starting to think differently about some things. I wouldn't call you a 'doomer' , just a realist.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)I'm trying to become more realistic as time goes by. Learning to live without either hope or despair is a real growth experience.
Viking12
(6,012 posts)not
hunter
(38,317 posts)Personally, my pessimism is the only thing that keeps me going.
The optimists keep trying to create a world I wouldn't want to live in.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Toss the coin away?
hunter
(38,317 posts)You may say that I'm a dreamer...
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Or what's a heaven for?
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Shit, there goes my Saturday Night Mellow!
4dsc
(5,787 posts)the hell with them GG. I have enjoyed your work for many years now. Keep up the good work.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)It's just a complaint about my style from another DU member who doesn't agree with my approach to things.
And thanks for the vote of confidence.