Recent content by EiMitch

One thing about Night of the Living Dead which I feel should've been mentioned is that it's in the public domain. You can go watch it on YT in it's entirety for free and it's 100% legal. Just make sure it's the original b&w 68 version, not the skipable 3d remake from the 80s.

Thats why, over & over throughout this thread, I've been pushing the point that renewable energy is now very cost efficient, whereas coal and oil are being heavily subsidized. These two simple truths demolish so many "capitalistic" talking points on their terms, its not even funny. On second...

First of all, the ozone layer is NOT "bigger than ever." Do your homework. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer Its going to be decades yet before the damage is repaired, if we're lucky. Second, CFCs aren't the only ODS. Third, death threats? Seriously? Is this your first day on...

Ah, another denying that carbon released into the air by human activity is affecting the climate. First of all, the notion that sunspot activity is causing climate change has been debunked so many times, its ridiculous. There is no correlation between sunspot activity and the rising average...

Compared to 5000+ years of recorded history? Yes, that is recent. And that's without discussing human pre-history, which dates us back 200,000+ years that we know of. A century or two is recent. But enough of that. Whats your point?

My mistake apparently... ...is which piece of context you missed. You're worried that other developing nations are following, and will continue to follow, the filthy leads of China and India. The thing is: no they won't. As I've been saying throughout this thread, the economics of fossil...

First of all, did you just attribute something I said to someone else? Don't address multiple people at once if you can't pay enough attention. If you don't think a solution I or anyone else here advocates is going to work, fine. Suggest something better. Smash our ideas down and build up...

Do you seriously need to ask? No, really. I honestly can't tell if this is intended as a rhetorical question. It feels like it is since you apparently know the answer already. Yet, you don't go anywhere with it. Tell you what, I'll just bite. Yes, the industrial revolution. Your turn.

One crucial piece of context you both seem to miss is that developed countries have stable populations, without any kind of extreme population control program like China's. **Fry-squints at 7swords** People in poor countries tend to have alot of kids because of high child mortality rates. If...

Tokyo? Seriously? It was Fukushima! And you misspelled Chernobyl. Do your homework next time. The three big-name nuclear disasters people talk about were caused entirely by predictable human error. Fukushima wasn't built to withstand major natural disasters relatively common to Japan. Three...

I don't share your pessimism for a number of reasons. 1 - In practice, such pessimistic hand-wringing becomes an excuse to do nothing. You know this to be true. 2 - If we cut our collective carbon footprint to half it current levels, then the hardest part of the battle is over. This is...

Thats why my knee-jerk reaction was "that's not true," before I let my disgust with new-age alt med SJWs cloud my judgement. And boy did I let it. I didn't even try to fight it. So yeah, stereotypes. They're a real problem. They've done much to frame debates on this issue for decades. Thats...

My knee-jerk reaction is to say that you're wrong about environmentalists. But I can't honestly say that. Because I think about anti-vaccination a-holes. (curse Jenny McCarthy and Oprah from the dregs of my soul, in the name of everyone who died of measles this past decade) I think about...

On the contrary, the global climate has been relatively stable for all of human history until recently. We effed it up. Besides, it kinda sounds like you're saying "well, we can't really do much about it. So why not deliberately make it worse?" I trust you can see in hindsight why that's...

So MS is denying it. If it turns out that MS is lying, I expect a huge backlash. I'll be seriously disappointed if everyone just shrugs and says "meh, its MS being MS again. Whaddagonnado?"