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Paganplace, don't understand sarcasm?

Sandy, what's that you said about name calling?

Bob,

Are you "special"? Did you ride the short bus to school? The lack of intelligence, name-calling and overall small midedness of your posts suggests that you are indeed mentally retarded. If this is not the case then I would like to apologize to mentally retarded people everywhere for lumping them in with the likes of Bob.

Bob, get a job....

To wit. We do not have the goods for *anyone* to go to Mars and survive, never mind find a habitable planet to despoil again. We couldn't slinghot a craft around *Jupiter* for more speed without subjecting a human being to lethal radiation doses, just from being there, never mind what you'd get on the way.

If we *had* the technology to do that, then we'd have the technology to live in habitats on a frozen or boiling Earth...

Which we don't.

'Oh, we'll just leave the planet.'

Like that justifies being what we all know is greedy and shortsighted.

What are you, an *#&$^@?*

Or are you just dreaming of it cause you can't imagine a world going on without *you*?

Was that unkind?

Seems people are kind of operating under certain illusions, though.

I assure you the spacelift capacity isn't there. Not even for Donald Trump.

Umm, I'm not sure anyone has pointed this out to you, 'Anonymous,' but 'we' have neither the payload boost capacity, actual propulsion, radiation shielding, or even sustainable *plants to eat on the way, never mind a destination that would enable your children to be that snide in a hundred years, according to projections.

That's for *anyone,* never mind *everyone.*

You wanna talk about space travel, then odds are you'd *dream* of finding a place after several generations of travel with tech we don't have, that as hospitable as even a messed-up Earth.

You want sci fi, how bout a sci fi world where people have universal and nearly instantaneous access to all kinds of information about who's screwing who to make money off screwing up the planet, hoping they'll be able to make people compliant enough about them being rich enough to survive the effects of *their* exploitation...

Basically, tell me how what the corporate interests want *wouldn't* result in some kind of feudalism, while everyone's primed to think it's just a 'tribulation' and if you don't like it, you're 'impious.'

'We' should go to another planet? If we could have a thousandth of our population live in space for that trip, we'd never need to leave.

If you like living in cans, either way, that is.

Environmentalism is elitist, racist, Luddite claptrap. Stop the pious handwringing. We should use up this insignificant dust speck of a planet and move on.

Dear Ms. Willis,

A well written article. I agree with all your points, except one. You mentioned "common sense".
In this Brave New World commom sense appears to have died a quite death years ago. Or at least thats what the the Psychologists, and Psychiatrist tell us all. Now we americans need proof and instructions for everything we do, and or need to do. A committee with subsequent sub-committees and only the most educated people on them are now allowed to decide what is "right" and "proven" to work. I am being humourous of course. If what you wrote was only so simple, and it is really. But yet our leaders will continue to fight like cats and dogs for fear the other party will get recognized for something they did not do. So in effect, nothing really gets done. Unless we as individuals do what little we can for our planet, regardless of what we believe about God, or don't believe. A really good article. And I don't know if I am resistant to Gores film because it is so sad, and scary, or because I feel so bad because of what my species which includes me has done to this world.

Jan Willis,

A very nice essay.

Don't be upset by BOB'S unkind comment. As far as I can tell, all his comments are like that.

I think his one-sentence comment on another fine essay was "What a piece of crap!"

As you well know, we have to put up with all kinds of creatures here in this samsaran (or is it samsaric?) world. Bob's one of them.

Personally I wish he'd return to his home planet. Isn't it called Grubazon? (It's the seventh down from the top of the Buddhist planes of existence, I believe.)

Best wishes to you.

I don't think Ms. Wallis is offering anything different than how most Americans probably feel already.

Of course, mandating Al Gore's "documentary" is really quite ridiculous.

Wow, a panellist actually makes sense and gets shot down in flames. I think this is the twighlight zone.

"It is not only “people of faith” who should make care for the environment a major priority; everyone should do so, whether they are Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or completely secular, non-religious human beings."

Wow, what an insight! You mean all human beings should be concerned about their future, regardless of race, creed, or political party affiliation?? You're sooo brilliant! You must be a woooman! Oh boy, wow!

Moron.

I loved how you put your essay until the last sentence. Al Gore is to science as Jimmy Neutron is to drama {he's a cartoon}. There's even a touch of drama in cartoons.
Al Gore may have true warnings, but his solutions will bring down this country while leaving China and others untouched.