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GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 05:10 PM Mar 2013

Hey, 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. I’m glad he considers me strange, and I wouldn’t join the bunch of “hopeless hopefuls” the Guardian is recommending if my life depended on it…

I’m 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 Earth’s 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, I’ll happily cop to being strange...
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Hey, I made the "A" list! (Original Post) GliderGuider Mar 2013 OP
Eh. I wouldn't put you in the abolitionist camp. wtmusic Mar 2013 #1
Eh is right! cprise Mar 2013 #14
Damn Glider, you should feel honored, ... CRH Mar 2013 #2
Thanks! GliderGuider Mar 2013 #4
Funny I just wrote this in the morning, ... CRH Mar 2013 #3
you get on all the best lists phantom power Mar 2013 #5
I've read quite a few of your posts octoberlib Mar 2013 #6
Thanks. GliderGuider Mar 2013 #9
geez, I wonder the the kossack's DU handle is? Viking12 Mar 2013 #7
Congratulations! hunter Mar 2013 #8
Pessimism and optimism are two sides of the same coin. GliderGuider Mar 2013 #10
Imagine all the people living for today. hunter Mar 2013 #11
A man's reach must exceed his grasp, GliderGuider Mar 2013 #12
Guess I'm not nearly strange and wacky enough . . . hatrack Mar 2013 #13
You're blacklisted? Their loss 4dsc Mar 2013 #15
Oh, I'm quite happy with this. It's not a real blacklist GliderGuider Mar 2013 #16

wtmusic

(39,166 posts)
1. Eh. I wouldn't put you in the abolitionist camp.
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 05:23 PM
Mar 2013

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)
14. Eh is right!
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 02:33 AM
Mar 2013

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)
2. Damn Glider, you should feel honored, ...
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 06:18 PM
Mar 2013

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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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
6. I've read quite a few of your posts
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 07:47 PM
Mar 2013

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)
9. Thanks.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:15 AM
Mar 2013

I'm trying to become more realistic as time goes by. Learning to live without either hope or despair is a real growth experience.

hunter

(38,317 posts)
8. Congratulations!
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 12:35 AM
Mar 2013

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.

 

4dsc

(5,787 posts)
15. You're blacklisted? Their loss
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 08:13 PM
Mar 2013

the hell with them GG. I have enjoyed your work for many years now. Keep up the good work.

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
16. Oh, I'm quite happy with this. It's not a real blacklist
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 09:06 PM
Mar 2013

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.

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