October 09, 2006
Planet enters 'ecological debt'
[newsfilterish] The demands of humanity upon the planet have finally reached the tipping point in our headlong race to kill the planet before we kill eachother.
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So today is World Overshoot Day? I thought today was Wombat Day. But that's okay, the wombat won't mind.
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Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit huffing gas.
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Um... I'm thinking we'll be killing each other long before the planet. It has this remarkable ability to not give a shit if we extinct ourselves.
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I'm developing this ability as well, fyi. Done all I can. Avalanche has started, way too late for pebbles to have meeting of committee to discuss options.
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Self-correcting problem.
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Avalanche, Mord? I thought it was going to be fire and ice?
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Its a Vorlon proverb "once the avalanche has started its too late for the pebbles to vote" ... I'm a nerd, sorry.
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I lubs me some wombat squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
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So, what, we’ve gotta move out of our parent’s house finally?
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I think we just starve. Thats usually how it works.
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The Vorlons are a race from the science fiction series Babylon 5. Advanced, ancient, enigmatic and extremely reclusive, the Vorlons are more than a little frightening. They maintained only one representative, Ambassador Kosh, on the station. When in the presence of other races, Vorlons invariably cover themselves entirely with bulky encounter suits. Oh. Yeah, yeah. Vorlongs. Right.
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Maybe we can live on the moon. Then Earth will be sorry for kicking us out.
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Grass Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work— I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work. --Carl Sandburg
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*taps violin bow on music stand*