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No one will have to work. There will be robots to fill every job description. At first some people will continue to work, but over a period of a generation or two their numbers will decline and then they'll vanish. People will devote themselves to leisure and luxury. The last human being will die of combined liver failure and drug overdose in 2310. The robots will then construct a civilization based on 1950s sitcoms. They will reach out into the stars and assimilate the rest of the galaxy. By the year 2432 most of the Borg will be named Lucy, Ethel, Fred or Ricky. Universal peace will be attained.
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Ironing your jeans??Originally posted by Oerdin View Post
Seems that should be easy to stop.
Your GF is obsessive and out of touch with reality. Or perhaps just trying to make you appear as nerdy as possible.Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-ArmsComment
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Clearly she's making him less desirable so that no one will steal him away.Originally posted by -Jrabbit View PostComment
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18th December 2009
The day civilisation dooms itself to destruction...
That is the last day of the Copenhagen Climate Conference when the world's nations are due to ratify the replacement to the Kyoto Protocol. In other words - our last best chance to avert the Climate Catastrophe that we are so near to triggering. It is estimated that we could enter runaway climate change by 2015 if we continue to do nothing now...
We will of course fail to make it sufficiently strong as nations will water down the already too weak proposals (a 50% chance of holding temps to a 2c rise - which is already an environmental catastrophe) as we collectively fail to learn the lessons of Kyoto.
On top of that, Peak Oil is just around the corner - some say as early as 2013 - the consensus is around 2030
Both of these phenomena, coupled with world food reserves already at their lowest for decades will trigger a general collapse of human society as we know it in its current form. Wars will be fought over access to food and water, hundreds of millions - if not billions will die. The earth will literally burn due to rapidly rising temperatures, but the coast will provide no respite as sea levels also begin their inexorable rise...
We can prevent this nightmare scenario in December, but I fear we will fail to grasp the opportunity - by the time we realise what we've done, it will already be too late...Comment
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I don't think that global warming will have any serious negative effects at all.
It is a distraction from the real environmental problems.
JMJon Miller-
I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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You are joking, right...?
So, what are the real environmental problems then - if not climate change?Comment
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Water and other sorts of pollution. We have problems with eggs breaking, animal species dying out. Non-normal amounts of mutations, weakening among the males of numerous species/etc.
Global warming won't do anything even if it is significantly man caused. The world has been much much warmer in the past, and can be much much warmer in the future without any series difficlujties.
JMJon Miller-
I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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...without any serious difficulties - to the world!
However to the species of the world, climate change signifies a global catastrophe!
You are talking mass extinctions across the entire planet!
Climate change is already acidifying the world's oceans, for example. That one thing threads their entire ecosystem. Add mankind's over exploitation of the oceans, and also pollution...
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Talk about coral reefs for instance, where a one degree Celsius increase is enough to cause a serious blow to its ecological balance. And this coupled with the fact that coral reefs are bastions of organical life teeming with species of all different sorts will ensure that there'll be a dearth of food for other fish, in turn causing marine environments to become scantier.Originally posted by MOBIUS View Post...without any serious difficulties - to the world!
However to the species of the world, climate change signifies a global catastrophe!
You are talking mass extinctions across the entire planet!
Climate change is already acidifying the world's oceans, for example. That one thing threads their entire ecosystem. Add mankind's over exploitation of the oceans, and also pollution...
If anyone thinks this isn't a problem that will affect us (and our food supply, considering billions of poor people depend heavily on fish) then they're not going to be convinced in any way possible. Might as well stop trying, Moby
"An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
"Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - SenecaComment
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Stuff will occur....Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia View Post
no srsly, they will... and then you'll see.Comment
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We are already talking about mass extinctions, due to other other pollution.
Global warming mass extinctions are a long way off comparatively.
We are losing the reefs to pollution much faster than we will lose them to warming some point in the future. I think that you two have bought into ****ty scare science.
JMJon Miller-
I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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I agree with JM.Comment
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No. You seem to forget that the temperature of coral reef environments has been increasing substantially since the industrial age began. This process is already ongoing, and paired with land-based pollution such as sediment runoff including considerable amounts of pollutants, Earth's coral reefs (i.e. near Australia or the Carribean) are having a rough time right now.Originally posted by Jon Miller View Post
Both factors come into play here. And to top that: both factors are actually interconnected. Both need to be tackled to keep our biodiversity. Luckily, fighting land-based pollution in mainland Australia by advocating cleaner and better industrial methods also helps global warming. To some extent anyway."An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
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That's crazy talk right there. BURN HER!Originally posted by Sirotnikov View Post"lol internet" ~ AAHZComment
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