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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:25 PM Original message |
Poll question: Is human progress sustainable? |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. I laughed out loud. |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. It depends on what the definition of the word "is" is. |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
3. Not if preachers, pundits, and other type of propagandists are allowed to go on lying. |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. won't "The Rapture" take care of that for us? |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 09:22 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. If it ever comes. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. On a long enough timeline, nothing is sustainable |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. No. Now that world oil production is in decline, so is progress. Not only is progress |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
7. Get back to me when humans start making some progress. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
8. Not with the current population. |
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Grand Taurean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
9. How many people are there? |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
10. Progress, yes. Sustainable, yes. At it's current rate, no. |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Please explain how progress can be sustainable. n/t |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 09:20 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. At a MUCH slower pace |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 10:37 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. And in less than a hundred years |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 07:42 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. See the website at this link... |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
14. in what respect, charlie? |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
16. When was the last time we saw any human progress? |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
17. Yes. nt |
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