I keep pointing out that this is the reason for Trump's interest in Greenland.
The ghouls went from denying climate change, skipped right past trying to stop or manage it, and have now landed on trying to profit from it. Disgusting.
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Fucking ghouls.
I am not an eloquent man of many words, sorry.
Nah, that was spot on.
Wait long enough and we'll have to buy breathable air.
Don't have kids folks; it's a cruelty to them.
Or join the socialist struggle to end capitalism so your children can have a future. Honestly, what do we have to lose at this point? A few billionares?
Or all of them !
These people are using the lorax as a guidebook.
We call that kind of tattling on ourselves a "self-report"
Lenin still with the correct takes.
Apt.
Further demonstrating that the pseudo-science of "economics" is just crypto-fascism.
Karl Marx and Keynes were also economists... That is a broad scientific/philosphical field we are talking about. But there are many opportunists and demagogues in that field.
I used to work in science in hydrology and did read a lot of papers from macroeconomists (they use similar apporaches). There are defintly serious scientists in macroecomics. Tbf, I have my doubts when it comes to business economics.
Smeg & the Heads reference?
I wouldn't go so far as Economics being pseudoscience, it's obviously not as foundational as math or physics, i.e. it builds on top of math and social sciences.
Also you should definitely differ between political/macro economics and business economics.
Former I would certainly put into the science category, and there are a lot of scientists that advocate towards radical changes in politics because of climate change. Latter is certainly debatable and certainly less "sciency"...
I'm sorry but how does studying economics equal fascism?
The Economist is a superb newspaper. They are clear about their liberal position and their free market economic position.
They also are willing to do journalism that others dont bother with. This is a great article - its not about wether its right or wrong, its about what is going to happen and how it will affect the world.
The Economist is a superb newspaper.
lmao. There's nothing "clear" about openly advocating for a dangerous pseudo-scientific ideology. It's just the Epoch Times for libs and fash.
its about what is going to happen
Yes, these nostradamuses are pushing Stage 4 and Stage 5 climate denialism
I had no idea that the Arctic could be 100% ice free by 2030.
Take the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me 🎵
Oh they will. Once unlimited energy is able to be tapped, they will have fences that go into the heavens. They'll put a roof over our head and allow a simulation of stars for a subscription.
They've been working on that already, hasn't panned out yet though.
https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/russia-wants-to-advertise-in-space-with-orbital-billboards/
https://www.space.com/pepsi-drops-orbital-billboard-plans.html
https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-orbital-billboard-tiny
I'm sure they'll just keep throwing money at it till it happens.
Here's one for ... selling sunlight, via a network of sats with mirrors:
It just goes to show you how stupid people at the top really are.
They don't understand scale at all, so they propose something like this, someone goes "uh... Guys? Know those banners they fly at the beach? Those are like the size of a neighborhood road, and the plane flies low so you can read it. You're talking about building megastructures"
And then they just... Never really acknowledge that the math doesn't math. They just keep going around proposing it, because it's this cool idea they came up with all on their own and definitely wasn't part of a cautionary sci-fi tale
Fuck, I'd take some sunlight in the winter months. ~5 hours of sunlight is brutal. It's dark when you go to work and dark when you go back home. Only time to get sunlight is if you decide to get lunch.
The show 'The Rig' has this as a plot device in season 2, going into season 3. Anybody else sad that sci-fi is not out pacing reality by more then a few years anymore?
Hoverboards when???
I wonder how long it'll be before they'll start selling bottled purified air, or something. I could even envision metered filters as a mandatory installation for every enclosed space.
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They already do in places like Colorado. Not air but bottled oxygen for tourists not used to the lack thereof.
This may be the most Freemium thing I've ever seen in real life...
To be fair it’s oxygen and not air and designed for people who come from sea level, but yeah.
Also I can’t say I wouldn’t take them up on that. When I was a teenager I went to summit county on a snowboard trip and coming from sea level…. Despite being an athlete… I was winded just going up a flight of stairs. But your body adjusts after a day or two as long as you hydrate and don’t drink alcohol.
That does make some sense, but the whole idea of privatising the distribution of life-sustaining gasses while it isn't strictly needed gives me the creeps.
As per your example, there's still air at high altitude, and the body does just fine in adjusting to the variation; would not have a problem with medical uses for people who have cardiopulmonary issues, to be clear.
It feels like putting the pot on the burner and starting it up at Low, y'know?
Oh totally. It’s just for privileged people to have a better vacation. And honestly, when one has a bad headache one will do anything to stop it.
Without the ability to sell oxygen it wouldn't be as accessible to those that end up needing it.
Been a thing for a while now, you haven't heard?
I never expecter Spaceballs to correctly predict the future.
I have been blissfully ignorant until now, it seems...
How can things be THIS much worse than what one would expect?
Your expectations were too optimistic.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.
Agent Kay, MiB
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin
(By the way, the average American has the literacy level of a 5th-6th grader now, so that's about 160 millionish people basically dumber than 6th graders, 11 year olds)
I think you're right. I do have a problem with misplaced hope, I'm noticing...
I used to as well.
I was going to post you a link of Land of Confusion cover, but I broke down into ugly crying for 10 minutes... something in it triggered me, remembering all the high hopes I used to have for humanity...
Good news! They already do! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-vitality-air-sales-update-bottled-air-1.5073762
Jesus Christ...
I'm sure a few of them even already have plans to do so for adspace.
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