Climate change denialists
Broadly I agree with them - if you look at our planet's temperature, we are experiencing an upward blip on a downward curve towards the next ice age - but that's in geological time. Sadly, us humans live in historical time, and for us that blip could last thousands of years. The point is though, unless you happen to be in the pay of one of the big oil companies and are profiting massively, surely conserving resources is just simple common sense?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 17:17, 4 replies)

But but but....
The last upwards blip of this magnitude happened over several thousands of years (i.e. geological time) while this one has occured over a few hundreds of years (i.e. since the industrial revolution).
(Robot_Lover loves robots, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 17:20, closed)

Oh I totally agree with you
like I say, we live in historical time and by those standards we're pretty fucked

I just don't get all these people who vehemently deny that there's a problem at all
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 17:33, closed)

Name one actual source.
Anthropogenic climate change may, or may not, be occuring -- so far there have been no correctly peer reviewed papers or any figures released to prove either.
This is a money-grabbing excersize by politicians and nothing more.
We should be preparing for climate change, not paying morons who tell us it is our fault.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 18:55, closed)

Surely
if oil is running out and the planet is going to die through our sue of it, then it's our duty to use it all up as soon as possible.

I agree about conserving resources though - hence I have fake, velcro numberplates that affix to my car when I go to petrol stations. I conserve quite a bit of my 'resources' that way.
(dchurch bah, Sat 17 Oct 2009, 11:16, closed)