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Boyan Slat vs Greta Thunberg. Why?

Old 01-21-2020, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777 View Post
Nothing religious about it, just human nature.
Ummm....

https://www.catholic.com/tract/birth-control

https://mormonbeliefs.org/all-about-...birth-control/

Basically all of the Abrahamic faiths want to spread the seed far & wide as possible. Saying 'nothing religious about it' is laughable.
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Old 01-21-2020, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by velosnow View Post
Ummm....

https://www.catholic.com/tract/birth-control

https://mormonbeliefs.org/all-about-...birth-control/

Basically all of the Abrahamic faiths want to spread the seed far & wide as possible. Saying 'nothing religious about it' is laughable.
Yes they encourage prolific repreduction.

But even without religion people will reproduce, it's fundamental to our nature, far more ingrained than any tendency towards religion. Religions might aggravate the issue, but eliminating religion will not solve it.
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Old 01-21-2020, 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by C130driver View Post
Umm all these kids actually achieved something, they found a solution to a problem, unlike Greta who runs at the mouth with zero solutions of issues she obviously has zero comprehension about. So yes, naturally people will tell her to go back to school. Also, the kids you mentioned were rare prodigies, let’s not pretend like that’s the standard and average teenagers know what they are talking about, they don’t.


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She made Time magazine Person of the Year which the desperate angry old man only pretended.
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Originally Posted by rickair7777 View Post
Yes they encourage prolific repreduction.

But even without religion people will reproduce, it's fundamental to our nature, far more ingrained than any tendency towards religion. Religions might aggravate the issue, but eliminating religion will not solve it.
They have done more than just aggravate the issue, they have enabled it greatly. Eliminating religion would solve lots of things, but that's for a chat over beers.
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She made Time magazine Person of the Year which the desperate angry old man only pretended.
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I’m not sure which “honor” is more of a joke, Time Magazine person of the year, which has in the past selected mass murdering dictators, or the Nobel peace prize. Come on, give it a rest. If you want the world to take global warming / climate change, whatever people are calling it these days seriously, you have to do better than a bumbling 16 year old whose father controls her social media feed.
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Old 01-21-2020, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by TiredSoul View Post
She made Time magazine Person of the Year which the desperate angry old man only pretended.
*mic drop
As the poster below says, you REALLY using that as a "*mic drop*"? Seriously, look at some of the previously awarded. ESPECIALLY as it relates to you labeling the "desperate angry old man"

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I’m not sure which “honor” is more of a joke, Time Magazine person of the year, which has in the past selected mass murdering dictators, or the Nobel peace prize. Come on, give it a rest. If you want the world to take global warming / climate change, whatever people are calling it these days seriously, you have to do better than a bumbling 16 year old whose father controls her social media feed.
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Old 01-22-2020, 07:14 AM
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I thought this cat won Person of the Year.
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She made Time magazine Person of the Year which the desperate angry old man only pretended.
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Getting named Time’s person of the year is an embarrassment.
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They have done more than just aggravate the issue, they have enabled it greatly. Eliminating religion would solve lots of things, but that's for a chat over beers.
Aside from the obvious impossibility of this, the kind of egregious government overreach required to enforce such a thing is immoral on its face. The communists have tried to eliminate organized religion by making it punishable by death, but even then it’s never been totally effective. People believe what they believe, and it’s very hard to change that.
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Originally Posted by wannabee View Post
Aside from the obvious impossibility of this, the kind of egregious government overreach required to enforce such a thing is immoral on its face. The communists have tried to eliminate organized religion by making it punishable by death, but even then it’s never been totally effective. People believe what they believe, and it’s very hard to change that.
True, I'd never advocate for such a thing but rather prefer to do it via higher standards of living, better education, using science instead of the supernatural to explain the world and of course a strong separation of church & state.
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