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   From: hex@unseen.ac.am   
      
   On 09/05/2017 22:24, Roger Blake wrote:   
   > On 2017-05-09, Norman Wells  wrote:   
   >> If you think that's sustainable, think again.  We're much nearer   
   >> disaster tha n you think.   
   >   
   > Riiiggghhht.   
   >   
   > That's what they said 50 years ago. Disaster Right Around The Corner Unless   
   > Big Drastic Action Is Taken Right Now!   
      
   50 years, 100 years, 150 years *is* right around the corner in any   
   historical perspective.  Just because a person who has jumped from the   
   59th floor hasn't hit the ground just yet doesn't mean he won't.   
      
   > What a pantload. The predictions coming out of the environmentalist movement   
   > and other doomsayers over the decades have amounted to a big fat zero.   
      
   Only so far.  There's no justification for projecting that into the   
   future.  It's just mathematically unsustainable.   
      
   > Making baseless hysterical predictions has always been part of the   
   > environmentalist, disaster-huckstering playbook. It's really about money   
   > and power. So excuse me if I don't take your warning seriously or accept   
   > the "necessity" of draconian governmental intervention implied by such   
   > fearmongering.   
      
   Please yourself.  It's coming whether you believe it or not.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)