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In reply to the discussion: How will YOU survive global warming? [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)54. I'm not trying to depress you but why would you NOT want to live longer?
I'd do almost anything to stay with my daughters and friends longer.
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Everyone move in together. Create co-operative living agreements. & WORK for a TAX ON FOSSIL FUELS,
patrice
Aug 2012
#1
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
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
I will do my best daily to make my footprint miniscule. I am old. My stay in hell won't
roguevalley
Aug 2012
#57
Do you have children? Family? Anyone you care about who will be here after you've gone?
patrice
Aug 2012
#4
I'm pretty intimately acquainted with death. & I have been saying exactly what you are saying here
patrice
Aug 2012
#29
Why do you assume that you have nothing that they need? Have you been in any or our nation's
patrice
Aug 2012
#94
at some point everyone gets the message to move on. Some take longer. no one wanted
roguevalley
Aug 2012
#60
Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies says work for a tax on fossil fuels - link:
patrice
Aug 2012
#3
I'm not sure that particular tax tactic is so much just about limiting damage as it is also about
patrice
Aug 2012
#76
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
Thank you for considering what I am saying. I will admit my bias, I am helping the young people
patrice
Aug 2012
#27
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
I've already gotten rid of nearly all exotic landscaping plants that aren't drought-tolerant.
slackmaster
Aug 2012
#37
I agree with those who believe that the time when we could avoid catastrophe has passed
KurtNYC
Aug 2012
#69
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
This isn't about predictions or whether Glen Beck said that Gore shouldn't fly on airplanes
KurtNYC
Aug 2012
#91
Mother nature can be quite emphatic when reminding us who's really in charge.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2012
#90
I live in Canada so though our flora and fauna are chaging...I hope this summer drought
applegrove
Aug 2012
#126
My idea? let the Earth equilibrate. If an 80% decline in human population is necessary...
yawnmaster
Aug 2012
#128