Regardless of if man-made climate change is real or not, can't we all get behind the idea that continually spewing burned-up mountain into the air is bad? Do you not believe that the elevated levels of airborne particulate downwind of coal-fired generation is something we should get rid of in favor of cleaner technology?
Climate change is not the only reason to stop converting mountains into dirty air that kills people.
It's true that it no longer just goes up the stacks and into the air, but it still goes somewhere - the amazingly toxic ash ponds. Which, by the way, are not exactly the safest and most sequestered thing ever. One dam breaks, and you've destroyed a river ecosystem, as happened in Tennessee.
But I suspect that most people would have a problem with outlawing penetrative sex.
The Shakers have not been doing it for thousands of years.
except that there isn't a tree that is as energy dense as coal, which gives you a problem of scale.
See, that's the exact kind of logical thinking that seems to be in short supply these days. Unfortunately, it's the creeping idea of "we wouldn't want to offend..." that causes expression to be curtailed.
Methuselah sprouted back in 2005, when agriculture expert Solowey germinated his antique seed. It had been pulled from the remains of Masada, an ancient fortification perched on a rock plateau in southern Israel, and at the time, no one could be sure that the plant would thrive. But he has, and his recent reproductive feat helps prove just how well he’s doing.
For a while, the Judean date palm was the sole representative of his kind: Methuselah’s variety was reportedly wiped out around 500 A.D. But Solowey has continued to grow date palms from ancient seeds discovered in the region, and she tells National Geographic that she is “trying to figure out how to plant an ancient date grove.” Doing so would allow researchers to better understand exactly what earlier peoples of the region were eating and how it tasted.
You touch on something I was just thinking - you replace "homosexual" with "Jew" and you get pretty close to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935.
Yeah, yeah, Godwin and all that - but it's remarkably similar in nature, and should be recognized for the abhorrent concept that it is.
They don't think that far ahead in the logic.
It's purely "Nuclear = bad. Coal = bad. Hydro = bad." and that's the end of it.
So you're actually suggesting that the two nuclear accidents that involve the release of radioactivity outside of containment has done as much damage to the global ecology as the gigatons of carbon released by burning coal, the massively toxic ash ponds, and thousands of square kilometers of strip mining necessary to keep digging up coal?
Are you serious?
Erm... yeah, that's sort of the whole POINT of having elections.
We're nor having an election here, we're discussing who is electable. Letting your own partisan views enter in makes it harder for you to see.
Their extreme partisan behaviour under Obama has done them NO favours
Except give them the senate and their largest house majority since 1930.
and in presidential elections the liberals actually VOTE.
You are reading too much Salon and DailyKos. Who won more congressional seats in 2012?
Trust me, it's going to be a very interesting 18 months ahead.
Well that's definitely true.
Being dressed as women has nothing to do with putting 'penetration' in quotes, unless there is some sort of joke I'm missing. Why is it in quotes?
Because it's not clear from the statement what exactly took place. Did they bump a barricade lightly while trying to peacefully leave the checkpoint, and in turn get pursued by the guards and shot to death despite being unarmed and showing no actual malice? We will have to wait for more details to emerge.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
