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Extinction Rebellion Ireland

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    #2582
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Robert_Beach wrote: »
    Well said. Our current pace of life is not one that can continue. We need to cut back in every aspect of life

    No we don't. The earth goes through cycles. The sky is not falling.


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    #2583
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Robert_Beach wrote: »
    Well said. Our current pace of life is not one that can continue. We need to cut back in every aspect of life

    Your major problem is telling the developing world right that's it guys we all have to lead simpler lives. Ye guys now as well , ye cannot aspire to have the lifestyle we enjoyed in the west for decades you know because of climate change. Soz.


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    #2584
    Robert_Beach
    Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭Robert_Beach


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Your major problem is telling the developing world right that's it guys we all have to lead simpler lives. Ye guys now as well , ye cannot aspire to have the lifestyle we enjoyed in the west for decades you know because of climate change. Soz.

    Yeah, life isn't fair. We in the West will have to reduce what we're used to too.

    Foreign holidays, a heavy meat diet, private cars, a throwaway lunch etc etc will all be as alien to an Irish person in 2050 as they will to a Tanzanian of the time.


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    #2585
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Robert_Beach wrote: »
    Yeah, life isn't fair. We in the West will have to reduce what we're used to too.

    Foreign holidays, a heavy meat diet, private cars, a throwaway lunch etc etc will all be as alien to an Irish person in 2050 as they will to a Tanzanian of the time.
    The response proves you are utterly clueless. I can make claims 31 years into the future too but like yours they would equally be bull****.


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    #2586
    ToBeFrank123
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    No we don't. The earth goes through cycles. The sky is not falling.

    Would you consider increased tropical storms, melting of Icecaps, and most seriously melting of glaciers that provide essential fresh water to a quarter of the worlds population, the sky falling in?


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    #2587
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,838 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    I wonder how long it will be until there is some sort of pushback at the BBC for their one-sided coverage of Anthropogenic Global Warming vs climate skepticism? If I were the UK government I would be deeply concerned by the consequences of the the BBC getting away with being so one-sided. We are on the verge of climate terrorism when you have people so far off their trolleys as some posters here.


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    #2588
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,838 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    ToBeFrank123 wrote: »
    Would you consider increased tropical storms, melting of Icecaps, and most seriously melting of glaciers that provide essential fresh water to a quarter of the worlds population, the sky falling in?

    I would imagine that many valleys that sustain glaciers would also be suitable for building dams so as to have water reservoirs.


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    #2589
    Robert_Beach
    Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭Robert_Beach


    The amount of climate change deniers around here is scary. I didn't think that it was that way over here in real life but who knows?


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    #2590
    Danzy
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    cnocbui wrote: »
    I would imagine that many valleys that sustain glaciers would also be suitable for building dams so as to have water reservoirs.

    Dams can't trap what isn't there anymore.

    This is already a problem, especially for countries around the Himalayan range.


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    #2591
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,383 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Robert_Beach wrote: »
    The amount of climate change deniers around here is scary. I didn't think that it was that way over here in real life but who knows?

    I accept climate change.

    I can see it, I've God dammed Egyptian birds breeding at the bottom of my land.

    I can't accept your last 8 words.

    You should have said "over there".


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    #2592
    Plumbthedepths
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    Robert_Beach wrote: »
    The amount of climate change deniers around here is scary. I didn't think that it was that way over here in real life but who knows?

    There is actually very few climate change deniers, the problem for the likes of you is that most here don't accept the apocalypse that the likes of you are promoting. If we are to believe the likes of Greta the world will pretty much end by 2030 which not even the most shrill climate change scientists endorses .


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    #2593
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    cnocbui wrote: »
    I wonder how long it will be until there is some sort of pushback at the BBC for their one-sided coverage of Anthropogenic Global Warming vs climate skepticism? If I were the UK government I would be deeply concerned by the consequences of the the BBC getting away with being so one-sided. We are on the verge of climate terrorism when you have people so far off their trolleys as some posters here.

    So far off their trolleys that they want us to emulate North Korea. I can imagine that it wouldn't take much for them to start killing people, the more demented ones anyway. A mixture of religious Puritanism and Communism.


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    #2594
    high_king
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    Robert_Beach wrote: »
    Well said. Our current pace of life is not one that can continue. We need to cut back in every aspect of life

    Agreed, but we are also being spun lie after lie about what the real solutions actually are by "green" governments, "green" politicians, "green" cronies, "green" media and their large "green" corporate paymasters. Pied Piper scumbags the lot of them.


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    #2595
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    high_king wrote: »
    Agreed, but we are also being spun lie after lie about what the real solutions actually are by "green" governments, "green" politicians, "green" cronies, "green" media and their large "green" corporate paymasters. Pied Piper scumbags the lot of them.


    That is a rather extreme condemnation.

    Its also a little paranoid.


    I see it this way green industry might be said to be guilty of a lot of hyperbole which their younger generation takes to be literal and genuine as they are less savvy.

    But there is an environmental issue. I mean have you forgotten the weather we have been having in recent years?

    And we do need solutions.


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    #2596
    high_king
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

    But there is an environmental issue. I mean have you forgotten the weather we have been having in recent years?

    And we do need solutions.

    Spare me the half witted patronising bullshyte, of course we need solutions, but not the corporate / consumerism / government / rat race ones we are being spun . . . from 40 grand planned obsolescence electric cars to 40 grand heating systems.


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    #2597
    SafeSurfer
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    cnocbui wrote: »
    I wonder how long it will be until there is some sort of pushback at the BBC for their one-sided coverage of Anthropogenic Global Warming vs climate skepticism? If I were the UK government I would be deeply concerned by the consequences of the the BBC getting away with being so one-sided. We are on the verge of climate terrorism when you have people so far off their trolleys as some posters here.

    We already have had eco terrorism from the Unabomber. It’s only a matter of time before climate terrorism becomes a reality. Some advocates have become so zealous that the use of violence to create awareness is the next step to be justified.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    #2598
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50341846


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    #2599
    IamtheWalrus
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    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    We already have had eco terrorism from the Unabomber. It’s only a matter of time before climate terrorism becomes a reality. Some advocates have become so zealous that the use of violence to create awareness is the next step to be justified.

    Read that back to yourself.


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    #2600
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Has Greta got her World Champion Mitch-er of the Year Award yet ?


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    #2601
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    Read that back to yourself.

    I don’t follow you.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    #2602
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I think the climate change pill would be easier to swallow for many people if it didn't come wrapped in nutjobs.
    To be honest it seems like just another anti-capitalist "revolution" and doesn't seem serious at all.
    And Greta "I can see CO2" isn't helping.

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    #2603
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,838 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Anyone got a match?


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    #2604
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    There is a lot of Guilt from the Middle Class / Upper Class in this Extinction Rebellion .

    With the reduction of religion , they have nowhere to go to confess their sins of over-consumerism / excess .

    No religious Elders to dispense forgiveness / penance for their sins .


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    #2605
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    ToBeFrank123 wrote: »
    Would you consider increased tropical storms, melting of Icecaps, and most seriously melting of glaciers that provide essential fresh water to a quarter of the worlds population, the sky falling in?

    No, as I said it is cyclical. How did those glaciers and icecaps come to be in the first place? Through the earths cycle of heating up and cooling down.


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    #2606
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,838 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50341846

    What is the posting of that link supposed to mean? I hope you weren't trying to imply the flooding was due to global warming, because if so, you have some explaining to do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floods


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    #2607
    Micky 32
    Registered Users Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    There is actually very few climate change deniers, the problem for the likes of you is that most here don't accept the apocalypse that the likes of you are promoting. If we are to believe the likes of Greta the world will pretty much end by 2030 which not even the most shrill climate change scientists endorses .

    That’s why whenever i see a post that begins with robert beech and the likes i just scroll past.


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    #2608
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate"

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    #2609
    mgn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    biko wrote: »
    "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate"

    panic.jpg

    Tell that to the children of the parents who are to lose there jobs in Shannonbridge and Lanesbora, all in the name of climate change.


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    #2610
    Micky 32
    Registered Users Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭Micky 32


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    #2611
    Micky 32
    Registered Users Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    mgn wrote: »
    Tell that to the children of the parents who are to lose there jobs in Shannonbridge and Lanesbora, all in the name of climate change.

    Speaking of that, where is the electricity going to come from to meet supply and demand to the midlands?


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