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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:22 AM Original message |
Ocean Life May Be on Edge of Catastrophe |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:25 AM Response to Original message |
1. Recommend |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 07:14 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Not just food, oxygen |
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swilton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:09 PM Response to Reply #6 |
42. Not to worry |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:28 PM Response to Reply #42 |
107. Yes. The sacred "free market". |
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MH1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
30. your last sentence - sad but I fear you are very right. |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 04:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
85. Before this DECADE is done... n/t |
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SlicerDicer- (311 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 03:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
140. Well at least I am sharing my pictures free :) |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:35 AM Response to Original message |
2. When ecosystems are out of balance this happens |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 09:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
101. I agree...the die offs would be the final... |
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Marblehead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:44 AM Response to Original message |
3. end product of |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:49 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. More like an end product of over-population |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:45 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. +1 for great minds thinking alike. nt |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
109. There have been a number of DUers |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:44 AM Response to Reply #3 |
14. End product of too many people. The reason there are no fish left in the oceans is |
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tex-wyo-dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:52 AM Response to Reply #14 |
37. We've allowed ingnorance & greed to trump wisdom and our better nature... |
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The Doctor. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:31 PM Response to Reply #37 |
76. Not 'allowed', precisely. |
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dana_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:23 PM Response to Reply #14 |
44. I heard on the local progressive radio station |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:52 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. That is assuming that we have not caused our own die off by 2050. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:49 PM Response to Reply #46 |
60. The destruction is accelerating ... |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:35 PM Response to Reply #44 |
110. Real fast. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:55 PM Response to Reply #44 |
124. "Over 7 billion next month" ... expected to reach "9 billion by 2050" -- |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:42 AM Response to Reply #44 |
131. We will never even hit 8 billion, IMHO. The collapse will happen before then. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:47 PM Response to Reply #14 |
58. Plus we ate the large fish -- the reproducing fish -- and threw back the young ones -- !!! |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:45 PM Response to Reply #58 |
112. It is so easy to see. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:51 PM Response to Reply #112 |
115. Sigh ... and it's so much more than even that when you consider that we could |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:17 PM Response to Reply #115 |
123. I know it. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
57. "Congress is under the control of Oil and Coal Industries" -- Al Gore/Rolling Stone -- |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 07:03 AM Response to Original message |
5. " and let them rule over the fish of the sea |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 07:40 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Dear God: you screwed up when you left it |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:39 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Pagans worship the earth, they don't wreck and exploit it. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:54 AM Response to Reply #13 |
38. I know. Hagee thinks that Pagans are idolators, and lumps |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:28 PM Response to Reply #38 |
54. Idolators. LOL!!! |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:51 PM Response to Reply #54 |
116. "Pick and choose" is exactly right..........nt |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 04:38 PM Response to Reply #38 |
87. O, |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:50 PM Response to Reply #38 |
114. Hagee. |
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lunasun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:46 AM Response to Reply #13 |
133. worldview that God gave humankind dominion over the earth's creatures |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:35 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. +1. very well said. |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:45 AM Response to Reply #5 |
15. "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth" |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #5 |
49. That verse has especially been misinterpreted by modern capitalism. |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:06 PM Response to Reply #49 |
74. This has nothing to do with capitalism. |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 05:07 PM Response to Reply #74 |
89. Wrong... |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:47 PM Response to Reply #89 |
96. You are posting statistics which are not relevant to this issue. |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 07:53 PM Response to Reply #96 |
98. Wow... |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:15 PM Response to Reply #98 |
99. "Our species richly deserves our impending ecocide." |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 09:46 PM Response to Reply #99 |
102. hmph |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:55 PM Response to Reply #98 |
100. He said Soviet Union, not Russia |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:07 PM Response to Reply #100 |
105. So? |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:39 PM Response to Reply #105 |
111. I wouldn't say the whole species |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:37 AM Response to Reply #111 |
129. And what did the 48th Parallel, indiscriminately drawn by Kissinger have to do with that? |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:35 AM Response to Reply #105 |
128. True -- our schools have taught that capitalism is synonymous with democracy ... |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 03:03 PM Response to Reply #128 |
149. Yes, |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:32 AM Response to Reply #100 |
127. Soviets threw nuclear waste into North Sea, US threw nuclear waste into Pacific .... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:19 AM Response to Reply #96 |
126. US and capitalism and its Superpowerdom/MIC have been at it much longer ... |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 02:57 PM Response to Reply #126 |
148. + a gazillion |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:06 PM Response to Reply #74 |
91. In our country it does and business in all those areas are run just |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:32 PM Response to Reply #91 |
95. Ohh the old socialists are really capitalists when they are bad argument |
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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 03:37 AM Response to Reply #95 |
139. China hasn't been a purely socialist society |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:54 PM Response to Reply #74 |
118. Mostly it's authoritarianism |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:09 AM Response to Reply #74 |
125. It has everything to do with capitalism and its suicidal exploitation of nature .... |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:46 AM Response to Reply #74 |
132. IIRC we pollute a lot more per capita then anybody else. |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #49 |
88. hmm... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
62. Organized patriarchal religion isued the licenses for elites to exploit ... "Manifest Destiny" ... |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
113. Epic stupid. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:39 AM Response to Reply #113 |
130. +1 -- |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:54 PM Response to Reply #5 |
117. "Manifest Destiny" and "Man's Dominion Over Nature" ... licenses written by man -- !!! |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
8. ... |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:58 PM Response to Reply #8 |
119. Exactly |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
9. We have lost the oceans. It's that simple. |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:45 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. True, GliderGuider, humans don't deserve a planet... |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:50 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Yes, "livid" barely begins to suggest what I'm feeling right now. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:56 PM Response to Reply #19 |
67. Would guess that fairly soon the public will be waking up to Global Warming ..... |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:50 PM Response to Reply #17 |
61. I've always said the same. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:57 PM Response to Reply #61 |
68. +1000% -- We've destroyed a beautiful planet -- and its animal-life ... and Nature/Systems-!! |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:54 PM Response to Reply #9 |
64. Can only agree -- and whomever made us "in their image" are obviously idiots -- !!! |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
10. People with children ought to be concerned. Are they? |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:48 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. I don't think we'll have to worry about our children. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
80. Well, I for one have always thought the Mayans knew things. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:50 AM Response to Reply #10 |
134. Not from what I can see. They keep buying gigantic perambulators and SUVs |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
11. Good job humankind! Your destructive power is on par with nature now! |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
20. Were the oceans managed for human need instead of profits.... |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 09:10 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. If the oceans were left alone for the benefit of the life that lives there |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 09:40 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Yet we are part of the world... |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #25 |
32. I keep wondering how we'd feel if someone extended the argument just a bit further |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:43 AM Response to Reply #32 |
34. You are a vegetarian? |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:51 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Of course I am. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:23 PM Response to Reply #36 |
43. Deep Ecology |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:43 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. A "danger" of an anti-human stance? |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:06 PM Response to Reply #34 |
70. The true "absurdity" is what you can see has happened with your own eyes ... !! |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:03 PM Response to Reply #25 |
69. Your life is based on nutrition from plants ... not animals ... |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:48 PM Response to Reply #25 |
81. "'Leave it alone'? That ain't gonna happen" - it IS going to happen, even if it means mammals vanish |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 07:40 PM Response to Reply #25 |
155. self-delete |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 09:34 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. That sounds like we would be privatizing the oceans for human use |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:13 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Not at all. |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #26 |
78. Humanity is just one of many though |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 09:38 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. This has nothing to do with an economic system |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:17 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. The number of people.... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:56 AM Response to Reply #27 |
135. Well, how did you miss seeing patriarchy's role in overpopulation and condition of poor women? |
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tex-wyo-dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:48 AM Response to Reply #24 |
35. I'm one of those who believes that everything is connected in one way or another... |
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Moostache (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:49 PM Response to Reply #20 |
73. Nothing can save us. |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:04 PM Response to Reply #73 |
121. Jebus is a cover for their greed. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 01:00 AM Response to Reply #73 |
137. We have decisions to make -- big ones --- |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 09:02 AM Response to Original message |
21. And where is the Corporate Media in all of this? This issue should |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 01:11 AM Response to Reply #21 |
138. We have a CIA/Corporate-press .... not inclined towards truth -- ExxonMobil has been lying ... |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
28. duh. and republicans want to destroy the EPA |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
29. If only the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
31. I'm gonna have a tuna fish sandwich. |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:39 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Tuna is so good for you, you should eat some every day! |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:05 PM Response to Reply #33 |
41. Race you to the last tuna! |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
39. Life |
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Fokker Trip (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:09 PM Response to Reply #39 |
71. Very Nicely put. |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 09:16 AM Response to Reply #39 |
141. This is a very lovely piece of writing, GliderGuider |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 01:17 PM Response to Reply #141 |
145. What am I doing? How nice of you to ask. |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 02:46 PM Response to Reply #145 |
147. Thank you for sharing this. |
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CleanGreenFuture (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
40. Human history is only 6000 years old. So, of course, it's "unprecedented in human history”. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:28 PM Response to Reply #40 |
53. Humanity's impact on sea life is unprecedented at least insofar as any species of life |
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blkmusclmachine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
47. No one in DC is listening. No one. DC's only interested in "austerity," stealing our SS/M&M. |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:02 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. +1. Incredible. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
50. Kicked and recommended. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
51. Well we are overdue for another mass extinction. |
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lebkuchen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. Does it have to be man-made? |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:54 PM Response to Reply #52 |
63. No not at all. This has been a longtime coming. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:30 PM Response to Reply #51 |
55. We're not overdue for a mass extinction unless we give up and let our actions guide us |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:56 PM Response to Reply #55 |
66. We are overdue for one and not one by man's hand either. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:20 PM Response to Reply #66 |
72. There are no dates for mass extinction, those disparate events are separated by cause and time span |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:26 PM Response to Reply #72 |
94. Doesn't look like We Humans want to try. |
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The Doctor. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:58 PM Response to Reply #66 |
82. So because we were 'overdue', we went ahead and took care of it ourselves. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:25 PM Response to Reply #82 |
93. I doubt anyone planned for it to happen that way. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
56. Crimes Against Humanity -- extrodinary collaboration between White House and fossil fuel industry -- |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
59. +11 |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
65. The vast majority of toxins are washed into the oceans. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
75. We are "Burning Man". |
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The Doctor. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
77. Ben Stein; "Grab a fork, and eat all you want. There's lots more out there." |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
79. The world treats the ocean as a giant sewer. |
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thelordofhell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
83. It's in the nature of animals.......and we are animals |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 04:37 PM Response to Reply #83 |
86. Unless that animal or society of animals can gain a higher state of consciousness or awareness |
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drokhole (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 07:06 PM Response to Reply #86 |
97. Nailed it. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 10:26 AM Response to Reply #97 |
157. I like those quotes. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:58 PM Response to Reply #83 |
120. No animal species is as VIOLENT as the human species -- !! |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 09:30 AM Response to Reply #83 |
142. I believe we are talking about destroying the planet's species and living systems... |
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thelordofhell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 09:40 AM Response to Reply #142 |
143. The oceans won't "die" before we do |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 09:55 AM Response to Reply #143 |
144. ...a panel of 27 scientists reviewing the latest research from all areas of marine science... |
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thelordofhell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 05:51 PM Response to Reply #144 |
153. What part of my opinion do you not buy |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
84. And it gets worse... |
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Morizovich (196 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
90. KICK! |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
92. Here’s a video related to |
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greytdemocrat (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
103. Ted Danson warned of this long ago...n/t |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
104. More evil in this corner. |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
106. All in the name of Profit. |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
108. "Time to die..."? |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:14 PM Response to Reply #108 |
122. According to the Republicans and the |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
136. no words except heartbreaking... nt |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
146. Kick for the Sunday Funnies. nt |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
150. The only chance we have to save the planet is to get rid of the capitalism - |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 04:48 PM Response to Reply #150 |
151. This didn't start with the advent of capitalism |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 05:35 PM Response to Reply #151 |
152. But capitalism will certainly finish it off. nt |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 07:36 PM Response to Reply #152 |
154. Any sort of material growth would have finished it off. The reason we focus on capitalism is |
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MoonRiver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
156. Humans have decided this world is ready to die. |
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