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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2018-12-14 01:04 am
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The Great Dying

 ... wiped out almost all ocean life, due to oxygen deprivation.  This is fairly obvious to anyone who's ever had a bucket of minnows die on them during a warm day.  It is also a concern due to the rapid warming of oceans today.  If those die dead, we are deeply fucked.
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[personal profile] dialecticdreamer 2018-12-14 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Not even soylent green will save us, and THAT movie is as old as I am, more or less! Yet NOBODY seemed to have paid attention when it MATTERED MOST!
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Re: great dying

[personal profile] dialecticdreamer 2018-12-14 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Remember, you keep saying that the ones with the power ALSO have the responsibility. Trying to shift blame only makes the problem WORSE, and yet, there are climate change deniers louder than a brass band, and trying to shut them down with logic is like trying to reason with a two-year-old.
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[personal profile] neonvincent 2018-12-14 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
As the saying goes, you can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into and I doubt reason is why they're deniers.
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Re: great dying

[personal profile] dialecticdreamer 2018-12-15 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Netflix had a great documentary on Bill Nye. At one moment, he is walking through the Ark Museum in Tennessee...

His rant outside, off the property, is far more courtesy than I think I could've managed.

Yet, all certain groups do is take ADVANTAGE of that courtesy.
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[personal profile] neonvincent 2018-12-15 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
I bet that's not only an episode of "Bill Nye Saves The World," but it's either Season 3 Episode 5 "Evolution: The Fact of Life" or Season 2 Episode 5 "Extinction: Why All Our Friends Are Dying." I need to watch more of that show. I'm not surprised he's letting Ken Ham and The Ark Encounter have it. He and Ham have been adversaries for years.
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[personal profile] dialecticdreamer 2018-12-15 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
It may be included in that, but it was a specific documentary along the lines of "This is Bill Nye." The footage was shot WHEN he did the debate and tour YEARS ago.

To paraphrase the observation: If we don't catch kids' interest in science by age ten, it's unlikely to EVER HAPPEN.

One of the writers of the original show said that the worst mistake Bill Nye made was giving Ken Ham the time of day.

In the video, though, you can SEE why Mr. Nye did so: it MATTERS to him that kids are being told provably false things as SCIENCE not THEOLOGY.
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Re: great dying

[personal profile] siliconshaman 2018-12-14 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh they listened... and then like Trump thought; "I won't be here when it happens. It'll be someone else's problem. It's not important to me." and carried on regardless.
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[personal profile] neonvincent 2018-12-14 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I hadn't even read this until now, but what I did write about on my Blogspot today? The Great Dying. Synchronicity!
Edited 2018-12-14 23:41 (UTC)
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Re: Yay!

[personal profile] neonvincent 2018-12-15 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you.