XPost: alt.conspiracy.new-world-order, alt.america   
   From: knock@the.door   
      
   > You sound like some bicycle riding europeon peasant.   
   > I enjoy driving my pick up truck.   
   > I enjoy riding my motorcycle.   
   > I really enjoy living the good life in a thriving economy.   
   > Life is good.   
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   >         Jim E   
      
   Life is good.   
   For many people the world over, life is very, very good.   
   Perhaps especially the bicycle-riding european peasants.   
   As a race, humanity has rarely (if ever) enjoyed such stability, wealth,   
   ease of living, and lack of war.   
      
   However let me ask you this:   
   Do you care whether you children share in your enjoyment of life?   
   Do you want your grand children and their grand children living like they do   
   in a third world nation, taking up weapons to mug, steal, rape, maim and   
   kill purely to survive in an overpopulated world where the majority of the   
   cities (and all the high-life and culture and industry that currently   
   support your enjoyable lifestyle, and manufacture your pickup truck and fuel   
   your motorcycle and engineer your current thriving economy) are flooded and   
   beneath 10 or 20 meters of sea water?   
      
   Do you want them to have to abandon even the concept of education and career   
   and entertainment to fight invading nations that have cities still above the   
   new sea-level, and larger and more sturdy economies and can finally take out   
   their decades-old fear and mistrust of American culture out by invading a   
   now weaker economy?   
      
   Do you want them to hear stories about Hawaii and have a similar wonder and   
   scoffing doubt that it ever existed that you have about Atlantis?   
      
   Because unless we stop looking about and thinking "naw it's fine right here"   
   and look ahead and recognise what's coming, then the picture I paint is only   
   the tip of the ice-berg.   
      
   Global warming will be followed by a new ice-age. Look it up; it's the   
   Earth's natural balancing act.   
   There is exactly no way that your economy, our economy, or even society as a   
   whole as it stands now can even remotely survive an ice-age.  We will   
   literally be reduced to savages in caves. Again. Glaciers simply cannot be   
   stopped. They smash and scrub clean bedrock as effectively as your pickup   
   can plow through long grass. This is not fantasy, this is cold hard reality,   
   and we have a great deal of scientific evidence that demonstrates the danger   
   we face and all of it's implications. Only those that have abandoned   
   science, education, and fact, can possibly doubt this.   
      
   It's not about whether life is good or not.   
      
   If we wait until your decendants turn around and say "My grand-pappy used to   
   drive a pickup truck and thought life was good" and everyone around them   
   thinks they're describing a king with untold riches, then we're all in   
   biiiiiig trouble.   
      
   - Chris   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)