Comment Re:We'll run out of oil by the year 2000. (Score 1) 345
I was unaware that it could be changed at all.
I was unaware that it could be changed at all.
One theory I've heard is that the huge demand for pollination services in most countries has kept beekeeper moving their hives around all the time, often transporting them thousands of miles at a time. This stresses the colonies and makes them susceptible to a variety of ailments. This practice is supposed to be much less prevalent in Oz. This is consistent with the fact that there's no obvious link between CCD and any single external factor.
None of which should be construed as a defense of indiscriminate use of pesticides. That most definitely does cause all kind of problems. CCD just doesn't happen to be one of them.
No, because you've just replaced one illogical expression with another. An infinite value remains infinite, regardless of any finite value you subtract from it.
Of course, what they're trying to say is "this resource is so big we can't imagine ever using it up." Which, of course, says little about their imagination.
I thoroughly agree with the point you're trying to make. But note that pesticides are not that strongly implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder. The problem is unknown in Australia, where pesticides are just as heavily used as anywhere else. It is extremely likely that it's due to some kind of environmental stress, which fits in with your abuse-of-resources theme.
We've used up all the fish. Now we can work on the smaller stuff!
Even if you have the hat?
The 1938 hurricane missed New York.
"Propaganda" is conspeak for "stuff we don't want to hear about".
Why move to a place with a high likelihood of flooding or otherwise detrimental weather?
Because such places tend to be centers of commerce. New York was a major port for most of its history, because it had a harbor and the river made it a good place for transhipping from inland.
I myself live in another port city, Portland OR. And yep, we get floods too, because we're right on the Willamette River. Why is the city here? Because 150 years ago, this was as far up the Willamette you could sail in an ocean-going ship. Economically, Portland is a sort of mini-New York,
Neither of these cities is an isolated case. Flood plains tends to attract farmers (good soil) and business people come to make a living off the farmers. Rivers and estuaries are good for low-cost transport of bulk products, so they tend to attract heavy industry (think Pittsburg).. The only city I've ever lived in that wasn't in a floodplain was Fontana, CA, which is in a desert.
And Fontana's an interesting case. For a long time its economy was driven by Kaiser Steel, a plant Henry Kaiser built because there wasn't enough steel to go around during WW II, and he wanted to build Liberty Ships. Existing steel companies (whose main motive was they didn't want competition from Kaiser) told Congress that it was a boondoggle — because Fontana is nowhere near a river, raising the cost of bringing coal and iron ore in and steel out.
One more note: New York hasn't had that many hurricanes. Historically, we're talking less than one a century. This business of having one every year is a recent development based on
Sigh. One more time: it's not the fact of hurricanes that's being blamed on GW, it's the frequency. New York has had "century storms" two years in a row. And this year it may well have more than one. That's a pretty clear sign there's more energy being pumped into the weather system. And that extra energy comes from... anyone? Let's not always see the same hands.
Sorry, too late.
Small detail: nobody built that city. It just sort of grew up there.
Ironically, George Romney's support for civil rights had a lot to do with him never getting his party's nomination. He actually walked out of the 1964 GOP convention (accompanied by his son Mitt) over the issue.
I'd feel better about living in a liberal city if it weren't surrounded by hard-right types. I moved here partly so I could live in a city that was designed for people, not cars, and yet Portland's much vaunted people-oriented infrastructure is the source of much condemnation by our neighbors, who consider it yet another "socialist" boondoggle.
And the racist element is there too. We have most of the African-Americans in the region, and one argument against expanding mass transit is that it makes surrounding communities more accessible to "criminal elements" — a pretty obvious code word. I'm sometimes amused at the claim that burglars are schelping their swag home on the light rail, until I remember what a bigoted mindset this weirdness demonstrates.
It's mineshafts, you cultural illiterate.
Sure, if you can make a joke about it, it must not be a problem. I call that the Rush Limbaugh fallacy.
If you analyse anything, you destroy it. -- Arthur Miller
