[ExI] us

[William Flynn Wallace]

Why will losing Florida and a few percent of the land along the coastal
areas cause the world to end?  Anyone? spike

Spike, you talk as if these people were human versions of Chicken Little.
As a parallel, think of the people in California (near Los Angeles?) whose
houses slide down hill in heavy rainstorms.  Isn't that a clear warning
signal to change zoning laws to prevent future buildings?  Maybe these
people  think that they have to beat people over the head to get their
attention, and exaggeration is part of that strategy.

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When I was in my 40s I remarked to a friend that a girl student was very
attractive.  He pointed out that her mother, who was a librarian, was very
attractive herself, and so she was.  Now, at our advanced ages, we can
enjoy the attractiveness of their grandmothers.   (I hope it goes no
further than this!)  bill w

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 2:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> ...> On Behalf Of MB via extropy-chat
> Subject: Re: [ExI] us
>
> >...Yesterday I had lunch with an old lady (late 80s) who showed me
> pictures of her family.  One of the girls (a granddaughter) is pregnant.
> Old lady says to me: "I told her this was a terrible time to be having
> children as the world is going to end in 10 years"... MB
>
>
> MB you are just too nice.  I woulda been sorely tempted to say (while
> struggling to maintain a straight face): "It isn't ten years.  It's It was
> 12 years on 22 January 2019.  So now the world will end in 8 years, 2
> months and ten days!"  Then I would hand her the bill for the lunch and say
> "So just pay for it."
>
>  Oh I am so evil, I can scarcely stand myself.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHk8nn0nw18
>
> I have had a lot of fun with that young politician's comment over the past
> three years none months, 20 days (I mute the sound and just watch her speak
> (regardless of one's politics, she is smoking hot.))   I like little old
> ladies, so I might not have said anything either.  Especially if she is
> hot, as Dr. Jill Stein and Julie Andrews are now.  With Julie, you don't
> even need to kill the sound.
>
> MB what you heard at lunch yesterday is a modern replacement for the
> religious apocalyptic movement popular a century ago and is still with us
> to some extent today.  In accordance with this thread, something had to
> replace that religion.  Now it is rising tide and bigger hurricanes, coming
> to punish those who sin against Gaia by burning hydrocarbons.
>
> What puzzles me is how the climate apocalypse crowd think either of these
> things will cause the world to end.  We have pleeeeenty of real estate up
> here higher than the tides will reach, even if all the ice on the planet
> melted away, plenty of farm land, plenty of resources way above 200 ft
> ASL.  Why will losing Florida and a few percent of the land along the
> coastal areas cause the world to end?  Anyone?
>
> spike
>
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