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Eric Lee, A-SOCIATED PRESS
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- 5/13/19 The first person in over four years to comment on an article (A Dyson Sphere is Constructed) that I did not invite to read and comment on offered a comment, so it was the first netizen I heard from: "Nice article, Mr. I don't understand what 'light speed' means. 'Assuming warp drive' lol. As a growther, it is my duty to make fun of you when you say silly things. Though seriously: Yes, a transition would be obviously necessary when you run out of space, but if you think that human lives have intrinsic value, it is way better to transition to zero growth with really big numbers of people than with really, really small numbers, like 7 billion. Duh. You only disagree because you literally don't value human life as being intrinsically worth while. Or something -- at the very least, I'm not a growther because I value growth more than human well being, but because I value human well being more than I value 'not using things up'."
- 9/20/21
Gerald Ciccarone Jr. I don't agree with all of this. Much of it is hyperbole. Man's very existence, his modus operandi, is to consume resources. Consequently, to argue that action is wrong or evil is inherently stupid. They say men shouldn't even be on the planet because the planet will be much happier without them. "Planets" cannot be happy and the earth itself doesn't care a whit. Sooner or later an asteroid will take the planet out anyway, and life will simply begin again. Well the proponents of that are morons. What they are in essence saying, is that men who want to fulfill their destiny without rendering any harm to the environment, should sit around all day and sing Kum-ba-ya in the middle of their vegetable garden while they play with themselves. The problem is not the consumption of resources. The problem is greed and the misuse of those resources. No matter how you look at it, the resources will all be consumed someday no matter how judiciously they are administered. It's not a matter o f if, it is a matter of when. Consequently, men will have to learn to travel the solar system. There is a million times more resources out there to be consumed but it must be judicious, without greed and always with intransigent minds that understand the impact of consumption. Trying to sell me on the idea that man is basically evil because he consumes, is an act of stupidity and I don't buy it. The people who try to convince the rest of us of that, are generally authoritarians, or the message emanates from authoritarians who want everyone to dance to the tune at the end of their puppet strings. They want us to happily live in hovels as satisfied tenants of the bottom of the food chain. They, of course, live in opulence in their mansions, and pass out the meager pittance of subsidy to we "common" paupers from the window of their limousine while we stumble along behind gathering the crumbs. They use guilt as a tool to bring that into being. Yet, the resources are greedily over consu med and honesty never seems to rule the day. We will pay a price while we destroy our environment by burning rain forests and destroying the atmosphere. But here's a little item to consider. Several million metric tons of aluminum oxide and lithium have been sprayed into the atmosphere as chemtrail's, to supposedly combat global warming. that is a bald faced lie that I can unequivocally substantiate. I won't spend half an hour describing how bad that is for us. But we are still doing it. I'm 72. I'm on the short side but I cry for my grandson.
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