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- tman84, on 05/14/2008, -3/+23The description of this article seems more like self serving BS. Look how wonderful I am and how awful you are. Typical smug "progressive" crap.
- mycatsasha, on 05/14/2008, -0/+20But... it's not Earth Day...
- dekuscrub, on 05/14/2008, -0/+13I am sick and tired of all the guilt trips. I'm not going to feel guilty for just living my life. Not gonna do it.
I sense a huge backlash in the near future to all this environmental/climate change overkill. - headlessclown, on 05/14/2008, -0/+12As a broke college student, i feel that i care more about the earth than anyone. By constantly lowering my goals, I'm helping the earth more than any environmentalist group.
- Number23, on 05/14/2008, -0/+11"...attended a consciousness-raising film club"
Good Lord, what a pretentious douche bag. - HarryBauzonia, on 05/14/2008, -0/+11I sell coal to power plants.
It allows city-dwellers to charge their electric cars and ride their electric trains while pretending they care about the Disney-fied picture of nature they have in their heads, while ignoring the fact that the biggest threat to the environment is them and their city. - aphonik, on 05/14/2008, -0/+9Is posting a story over half a month late bad for the Earth?
- theberlindoctor, on 05/14/2008, -1/+9yes.
- perish, on 05/14/2008, -1/+7"So if you had a chance to shut down an entire sector, for the planet's sake, which would it be?"
Farming is one of the choices. Farming...
Is there such a thin line between being an envirozealot and a self-loathing, neilistic anti-humanist? Would you rather humans stop exhaling carbon dioxide or discontinue eating up all of the natural resources?
Best comment on that story:
"Anyone remember the Dark Ages? Not literally of course, but they were characterised by the most powerful people in the world (the Church) slowing down the progress of the human race and raking in money by making the ill-educated masses afraid of something that doesn't exist. Sound familiar anyone? Anyway, there's an easy way to sort out this eco-rubbish. Every time you read an article in a newspaper encouraging you to give up your job to save the planet, or stop heating your house in winter so that algae in Canada can breath a little easier, just turn your heating up a notch, or go for an unnecessary drive." Posted by: Dan Xuereb | 12 May 2008 14:00:35 - Knabber, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6Screw you job nazi
- ender7074, on 05/14/2008, -2/+10This article is complete crap. One of the comments under the article summed it up nicely " ill considered, illogical and warmed over third rate Marxist fluff." If you econazis feel so strongly, then quit your job. Hell, a journalist working for a newspaper makes his money off of destroying trees. Guess thats ok though right. More of the Al Gore school of thought: Do as I say and not as I do. Hell, that pretty much sums up the entire liberal movement but thats beside the point. This article is a waste of space.
- o0joshua0o, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5You should have put the ***** between "Johnny" and "Appleseed".
- tbstudee, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4Like you I was skeptical of things surrounding 9/11 I did not understand. The way the buildings fell, the melted steel, etc.
Unlike you, I did a little bit of research and critical thinking and realized exactly how impossible it would be for 9/11 to have been an inside job. - lukasmack, on 05/14/2008, -3/+10Sorry if I'm being stupid here but how exactly does organic food help "save" the planet? As far as I was aware it was just not using pesticides on food to kill things feeding off it.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4So.. we're pushing things a month old to the front page? Sweet deal.
- simulus, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5Bullcrap.
These environmentalists are a lot like 17th-century Puritans, except they're even more fanatical, have even less of a sense of humor, and don't even have the justification that God told them to do it. If a Puritan takes stuff away from you, at least he's doing it because he thinks the Almighty Ruler Of Heaven And Earth told him to do it. If an enviro does it, it's because he's decided that he's smarter than everyone else.
Just because I read this article, I'm going to have a McDonald's cheeseburger for lunch, which I will eat in my car with the engine running, the air conditioning on, and the windows rolled down. - ender7074, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4You do realize you're an idiot right?
- Brownds, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5More like we are bad for ourselves. FYI the Earth will be here long after we are gone.
- preban, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5I won't, but please feel free to incur the costs and impoverish yourself for the Earth. You can be an example to me and others.
- BladeOfAnduril, on 05/14/2008, -3/+7Well I celebrated earth day by driving around in my emissions illegal, V8 powered, American muscle car. I love America.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Rofl. Smart.
- tulizx, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Stupid hippies.
- serif69, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3"consciousness-raising film club"
They did a lot of drugs and watched movies, which basically means he went to college. - HarryBauzonia, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3...I should add.....I live out in the sticks.
I spent Earth Day with my daughter and a few of her friends picking up trash that city people threw out of their windows when they came here in their minivans and Priuses to experience "nature". Lots of Starbucks cups went in my bag. Plenty of loaded diapers too. I filled up my truck and a trailer before we got too tired and had to go home....via the landfill. - HCviolence, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3My job is to throw toxic waste at the endangered pandas. So I'm thinking.....yes?
- UtopiaInTheSky, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Well, I have no job, which is quite possibly the most environmentally friendly occupation there is.
- timusca, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4My job is helpful to the Earth... we're building a plant to recycle weapons-grade plutonium into nuclear fuel. But if it were harmful, I wouldn't care... but I'm not a smug piece of ***** that goes around bragging about how much I have sex with mother nature.
- TalenGTP, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3Unless I'm a giant asteroid hurtling towards the earth, and Bruce Willis is nowhere to be found, then no
- uberchaoslord, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3Harry - your comment is great, I love when city-dwelling hippies in the US chirp about their electric cars, when they obviously haven't considered the source of the electricity they're using to charge them.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Only if you're not bitter and eat arugula.
- uberchaoslord, on 05/14/2008, -2/+4Global warming is just what all the people who spent the 70s and 80s chirping about communism are doing now - the fall of soviet Russia meant they couldn't spout the joys of communism, so now the socialist left-wing nutjobs are latched on to global warming.
- rockefeller2, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Good viewpoint. I'm alive, may as well just throw my garbage in my yard, let the wind blow it around, and go pour all of the toxic chemicals in my garage into the local river.
- veriix, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3Probably, do I care enough to find out and be "that guy" no thanks.
- earlycj5, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3It is overkill, there will be backlash from it. While I agree something should be done, from what I've seen most people see it as political BS and don't believe it. With that approach, there will be backlash and the whole effort will be counterproductive in the end.
- uberchaoslord, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3No Al Gore's school of thought is "do as my made-up fact-ignoring alarmist pie-chart and line-graph" says, not as I do.
- MidnightRealism, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2The Chesapeake Bay has massive areas where absolutely nothing can live, due in part to pesticide runoff (much of the rest of it is caused by eutrophication due to lawn fertilizer). As mentioned above, the Gulf is in rough shape in places too.
- Sapulator, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2BURIED for environmentalist propaganda.
I thought the title meant "is your job crappy compared to other bad jobs around the globe?" then i would see pictures of the top 10 worst jobs - poidh, on 05/14/2008, -2/+4There's no such thing as "bad for the earth".
- schnikies79, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I personally believe that we are the cause of global warming, but I have to respond to this.
We have had hurricanes for hundreds of years, there is evidence on the east coast of hurricane(s) that would make katrina look like a spring breeze and that happened long before white man knew north america existed. There have been tornadoes in the midwest as long as humans have been around. The most devastating tornado in my area happened in 1801.
This is why people blow global warming off, because each and every time there is a weather system that is out of the ordinary, you blame global warming. Hurricanes and tornadoes have existed long before humans. They will continue with our without us. - MidnightRealism, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Exactly. You're one of the only people who is seeing the point the author was trying to make. Don't give up; move forward!
- TheMidnight, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Homer Simpson?
- charlietuna, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2Anyone who pisses or ***** is contributing merely due to the overpopulation of the planet. Secondly, most "modern" cultures base their economy on growth. Perpetual growth of course is impossible, and we are all participating in a vast pyramid scheme.
- MidnightRealism, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Global warming is only one small part of the overall picture. Those smog clouds over most urban centers aren't natural. Damaged fish populations from overfishing aren't good either. If more people committed themselves to altering small parts of their lives (take mass transit, for example, which is also cheaper than driving at this point!) then there will be fewer problems in the future.
- hairydotus, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1I agree completely. We don't need massive change right now, that will come down the line. We need everyone to make small changes the benefits will be great. I just hope the worries and debates about global warming end soon so that we can worry about the larger issues in my opinion such as the protection of endagered species like tigers and leapords, or deforestation to name a couple
- trogdor282, on 05/14/2008, -2/+4Basically, humans are bad for the Earth. Question is, "how bad is your job for the Earth?"
- TheKorn2, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I'm a professional sperm donor. I don't know what category to pick!
- yunus, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Considering I work for Hoggish Greedly, I would say yes my job is bad for the planet.
- hairydotus, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1It's not that humans are bad for the earth it's what we do that is bad for the earth. It is not necassary for us to pollute oceans and rivers, or do dump millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere but we do it. There are ways for humans to live in harmony with the rest of nature without destroying it but we choose not to because it's not the easiest way. For example why properly dispose of chemical waste which takes time and money when we could just dump it in the river out back. Unfortunatelly money is what drives the human race and if it is not cost effective it is not worth doing no matter what the cost to our planet.
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