Post by Prometheus on Aug 3, 2021 4:54:04 GMT
Let's run through the list:
Bats
Pigs
Bat's and pigs together (naughty!)
Wet markets
Chinese scientists
American scientists
Chinese and American scientists together (more naughtiness!)
The US Army (that one actually had traction in China for about a week)
Democrats (those jokey hoaxters)
Toilet paper manufacturers (I'm just tossing that one in for a laugh, but it wouldn't surprise me a bit if some "Walmart Shoppers" believed it)
Xi Jinping (as part of the trade war)
Donald Trump (as part of the trade war)
Hillary Clinton (because her email server had a virus. Again, that one was a joke but who knows what those Q-Anon types are willing to believe?)
But no Clima... WAIT! Here it is:
Whew! For a second there, I thought CC might not be invited to the party. After all, CC has been blamed for heroin addiction, acne, and Arab Spring among others. I'm glad it didn't miss out on this one.
And I see that Greta is in the news again for getting her vaccination. I thought that was weird since she stated in March of last year that she thought she already had it. Anything to stay relevant, I guess.
Anyway, we haven't talked about Climate Change in a while, so I figured I'd get the ball rolling.
So what should we talk about? Industrialism? Bitcoin miners? Coal miners? Minecraft? Global Warming? Global Cooling? El Nino? El Chappo? El Camino? Carbon footprints (mine is around 2.2 tons of CO2 per year)? Carbon credits? Altered Carbon? Carbon copies? Nestor Carbonell? Greta Thunberg? Greta Garbo? Greta Van Susteren? Rain forests? Rainn Wilson? Alternate energy? Alternate reality? Alt.rec.arts.movies.moviedatabase (Yeah. I'm that old)? Green Party? Green New Deal? Eva Green? Cow flatulence? People flatulence? J-Law falling flat on her face at the Oscars?
C'mon people! Let's talk about the "greatest existential threat to the planet"!
It's not really a threat to the planet. That's just hyperbole. It's only a threat to people - and only some of the people at that. The planet will actually continue to spin on until it's engulfed by the sun in about 5,000,000,000 years. THAT will be a threat to whatever life form is still on the planet by then.
Should we talk about the "dire" predictions that never came true because humanity somehow managed to pull a rabbit out of its ass just in time? Go humanity!
Well... The predictions are still there. They just keep getting updated with new time-frames... because humanity somehow managed to pull a rabbit out of its ass just in time. Or maybe it was Richard Gere. I'm not sure anymore but my ass is sore and there's rabbit poop everywhere. At least I think it's rabbit poop.
Who's going to start?