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Mon Aug 6, 2012, 06:09 PM

Skidmore (29,022 posts)

49. Why anyone would want to do that is beyond me.

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140 replies	Author	Time	Post
How will YOU survive global warming? [View all]	KurtNYC	Aug 2012	OP
Everyone move in together. Create co-operative living agreements. & WORK for a TAX ON FOSSIL FUELS,	patrice	Aug 2012	#1
I've been in several different extended family living together situations..	Fumesucker	Aug 2012	#6
I agree with your comment about conflict levels.	Trillo	Aug 2012	#14
The situation is "no pain, no gain" for most of us. Do or don't what you can about the Romneys of	patrice	Aug 2012	#24
Have you ever actually lived in such an arrangement?	Fumesucker	Aug 2012	#28
Perhaps I am assuming more choice in the matter of who is and is not in a co-operative. It's called	patrice	Aug 2012	#33
It's been my experience that interpersonal politics trumps everything else..	Fumesucker	Aug 2012	#36
Gotta agree there. I've lived with roommates; in a small commune(the authoritarian was front	Nay	Aug 2012	#45
I do think in smaller terms & also with clearly laid out options up front, so that if, after a	patrice	Aug 2012	#77
Every organization I've ever been part of has "doers" and "talkers"..	Fumesucker	Aug 2012	#109
I will do my best daily to make my footprint miniscule. I am old. My stay in hell won't	roguevalley	Aug 2012	#57
Same concern here, "It will take a freaking catastrophe to make	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#129
I will not be here by the end of the century,	RebelOne	Aug 2012	#2
Do you have children? Family? Anyone you care about who will be here after you've gone?	patrice	Aug 2012	#4
The problem with this snappy reply is that	Skidmore	Aug 2012	#23
I'm pretty intimately acquainted with death. & I have been saying exactly what you are saying here	patrice	Aug 2012	#29
Thank you. I can't do anything about what is going to happen.	RebelOne	Aug 2012	#31
I know this sounds snide but are you posting using a tin can and a string?	Fumesucker	Aug 2012	#32
It is snide and you can only accomplish so much	Skidmore	Aug 2012	#53
Actually, with the advances in stem cell research, etc...	randome	Aug 2012	#39
Why anyone would want to do that is beyond me.	Skidmore	Aug 2012	#49
you could live long enought to watch the rest of us die...	Odious justice	Aug 2012	#52
First	BlackHoleSon	Aug 2012	#125
I'm not trying to depress you but why would you NOT want to live longer?	randome	Aug 2012	#54
I do think there comes a time when as organism we are	Skidmore	Aug 2012	#55
I hear you.	randome	Aug 2012	#56
Why do you assume that you have nothing that they need? Have you been in any or our nation's	patrice	Aug 2012	#94
I don't think I said that. What I said was	Skidmore	Aug 2012	#97
at some point everyone gets the message to move on. Some take longer. no one wanted	roguevalley	Aug 2012	#60
Wow, that would certainly be overpopulation on steroids. n/t	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#130
Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies says work for a tax on fossil fuels - link:	patrice	Aug 2012	#3
I think there was an opportunity to limit the damage 40 years ago	KurtNYC	Aug 2012	#35
I'm not sure that particular tax tactic is so much just about limiting damage as it is also about	patrice	Aug 2012	#76
Easy. I won't.	lapislzi	Aug 2012	#5
I can't afford old age either.	LiberalAndProud	Aug 2012	#8
Re what will be left for them to live through is why we need to be here to help them make the	patrice	Aug 2012	#19
I have been encouraging my family to learn the old skills like gardening, farming, etc. But I am not	jwirr	Aug 2012	#84
We were talking about those smaller separate kinds of arrangements when I worked in long-term-care,	patrice	Aug 2012	#92
Born in 1941 and have witnessed all the modern changes that effect us so completely now. Fortunately	jwirr	Aug 2012	#103
What if someone needs you to help them do the right thing in their time here?	patrice	Aug 2012	#16
Those are really, really good questions.	lapislzi	Aug 2012	#21
Thank you for considering what I am saying. I will admit my bias, I am helping the young people	patrice	Aug 2012	#27
Oh, some of us will survive, we're a highly adaptable species	Warpy	Aug 2012	#7
oh good grief!	guardian	Aug 2012	#47
I live 150 feet from the water...	meaculpa2011	Aug 2012	#68
I don't think	guardian	Aug 2012	#82
First, I said that we didn't...	meaculpa2011	Aug 2012	#83
The crisis will force us to advance as a civilization, not regress.	Odin2005	Aug 2012	#62
I sincerely hope so	Warpy	Aug 2012	#63
Invade Canada. They are so friendly...	aikoaiko	Aug 2012	#9
just invade during the hockey game	KurtNYC	Aug 2012	#38
You're kidding, Eh?	Canadian 2	Aug 2012	#117
You'll be underwater, that will be the new north coast!	B Calm	Aug 2012	#113
I won't	Motown_Johnny	Aug 2012	#10
CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) could also be used.	Amonester	Aug 2012	#61
Aside from downloading my brain to a titanium computer....	Junkdrawer	Aug 2012	#11
I have no answer....	Locrian	Aug 2012	#12
the recent colorado firestorms	pretzel4gore	Aug 2012	#13
Well that's a new one	guardian	Aug 2012	#50
sorry ... so long to reply	pretzel4gore	Aug 2012	#136
I don't see how	guardian	Aug 2012	#137
i value your respect	pretzel4gore	Sep 2012	#138
I think you can rest easy tonight.	guardian	Sep 2012	#139
I should go off the grid, or set up the ability to do so.	democrat_patriot	Aug 2012	#15
I don't expect my body to survive it.	Trillo	Aug 2012	#17
I'm moving to the far Nor-Cal Coast (Eureka)	musiclawyer	Aug 2012	#18
Hey, that's my escape route too.	Lone_Star_Dem	Aug 2012	#40
Hope you love fog	n2doc	Aug 2012	#41
I grew up in fog	musiclawyer	Aug 2012	#42
Let it happen (on the one hand)...	NYC_SKP	Aug 2012	#20
I don't have a whole lot of ideas.	Blue_In_AK	Aug 2012	#22
Living as much off the grid as possible right now.	cbayer	Aug 2012	#25
Big ass air conditioners?	hack89	Aug 2012	#26
Put them on full blast and open the windows to cool off the outside	Son of Gob	Aug 2012	#108
Move to Alaska maybe...	Kalidurga	Aug 2012	#30
I would encourage as many Democrats and libs as possible to move to Alaska,	Blue_In_AK	Aug 2012	#48
I would move to Alaska in a heartbeat if I could.	RebelOne	Aug 2012	#51
We have the technology and science to do something right now	lunatica	Aug 2012	#34
A lot of this Sci-Fi better come through	Lifelong Protester	Aug 2012	#43
It's not sci-fi. It's not even an engineering problem. It's a political problem.	Zalatix	Aug 2012	#64
It's not scifi- its science not being put to use on the scale it ought to be.	Marrah_G	Aug 2012	#100
Great info, do you have a link ...? Thanks	MindMover	Aug 2012	#79
They all came from different sites and different times	lunatica	Aug 2012	#99
I've already gotten rid of nearly all exotic landscaping plants that aren't drought-tolerant.	slackmaster	Aug 2012	#37
Global warming won't be what kills me. For others, they will adapt...	yawnmaster	Aug 2012	#44
I'm staying near fresh water.	Alduin	Aug 2012	#46
I hope you are north of 145th and out of the new flood zone. nt	CK_John	Aug 2012	#58
The Upper-Midwest is in a good location to weather the comming storm.	Odin2005	Aug 2012	#59
Why is it taking so long to bring solar energy online ?	limpyhobbler	Aug 2012	#65
I agree with those who believe that the time when we could avoid catastrophe has passed	KurtNYC	Aug 2012	#69
I wonder if climate change defeatism is the new climate change denial ?	limpyhobbler	Aug 2012	#70
In 40 years there has been no progress on global warming	KurtNYC	Aug 2012	#72
Ok I don't disagree with we need to adapt .	limpyhobbler	Aug 2012	#74
By selling you food when the Breadbasket moves North	canEHdian	Aug 2012	#66
I could tell you..	sendero	Aug 2012	#67
The earth will survive despite us.	Topanga119	Aug 2012	#71
The biggest thing I did was to end my support of the stock market.	raouldukelives	Aug 2012	#73
Unfortuantly since many points made in "an inconvenient truth" were proven to be false or	crazyjoe	Aug 2012	#75
So you don't think the planet is warming, that man is directly responsible for the rapid...	truebrit71	Aug 2012	#86
google it, you will have enough reading to keep you busy for days.	crazyjoe	Aug 2012	#102
No, you google it for me..you made the claim	truebrit71	Aug 2012	#107
nah, to easy.....can't be bothered, I'm bored with you. go away.	crazyjoe	Aug 2012	#112
So you have nothing...that's what I figured...	truebrit71	Aug 2012	#115
ok, you win. I did a quick search and found pages of results.	crazyjoe	Aug 2012	#116
One quick thought on your reply re: Alarmism	truebrit71	Aug 2012	#120
This isn't about predictions or whether Glen Beck said that Gore shouldn't fly on airplanes	KurtNYC	Aug 2012	#91
costco now stocks emergency food in a bucket	dembotoz	Aug 2012	#78
I noticed that too this past weekend...plus portable solar panels...	truebrit71	Aug 2012	#87
Turn up the cooling unit slightly	4th law of robotics	Aug 2012	#80
I don't think the weather pattern has	AsahinaKimi	Aug 2012	#81
Who are these scientists?	cottonseed	Aug 2012	#85
Living in Florida I might have to move north.	Ganja Ninja	Aug 2012	#88
cannibalism	belcffub	Aug 2012	#89
Nailed. it. nt	patrice	Aug 2012	#95
Mother nature can be quite emphatic when reminding us who's really in charge.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Aug 2012	#90
I live near the Ocean on the West Coast...it will buffer me for awhile.	Tikki	Aug 2012	#93
I figured moving as far north as possible would be the answer.	sarcasmo	Aug 2012	#96
Skills and educating oneself	Marrah_G	Aug 2012	#98
Move, adapt, or die.	bluedigger	Aug 2012	#101
I won't	Sick of the GOP	Aug 2012	#104
Welcome to DU...	CaliforniaPeggy	Aug 2012	#105
HI....Welcome to DU..	Tikki	Aug 2012	#106
Welcome to DU	KurtNYC	Aug 2012	#110
interesting thread. kick	Liberal_in_LA	Aug 2012	#111
My idea is get the fuck out of the city for one thing.	Bonobo	Aug 2012	#114
Yep, agree! I think cities might be devastating places to be. n/t	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#132
I will be dead	DainBramaged	Aug 2012	#118
i will raid your compound and take your water, fuel, and food	datasuspect	Aug 2012	#119
and you expect us to 'just walk away'?	KurtNYC	Aug 2012	#123
that's the "die trying" part	datasuspect	Aug 2012	#124
I live in the mountains at over 9,000 feet. Not a problem.	Grave Grumbler	Aug 2012	#121
I have a plan.	laundry_queen	Aug 2012	#122
I live in Canada so though our flora and fauna are chaging...I hope this summer drought	applegrove	Aug 2012	#126
I'm going to hoard carbon credits.	hughee99	Aug 2012	#127
My idea? let the Earth equilibrate. If an 80% decline in human population is necessary...	yawnmaster	Aug 2012	#128
I will rob republicans...	fascisthunter	Aug 2012	#131
Move to Antartica	Shankapotomus	Aug 2012	#133
Some sicentists would say that you are an alarmist.	Vattel	Aug 2012	#134
It might include global warming along with another natural phenomenon...	yawnmaster	Aug 2012	#135
Message auto-removed	Alberto Ceras	Feb 25	#140

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