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If something ends up being cut, they'll have to communicate to their backers what and why. I'm satisfied that this would happen.

Nuclear energy is relatively clean though, especially with new technologies. I'm not such a hippy that I'm against using nuclear, although the worlds reserves of radioactive fissile materials are also massively dwindling, not to mention the sources are largely in countries like Afghanistan.

What I think would be good: Admit we have a real problem Invest in renewable energy technology encourage family planning, don't try to have more than 2 children improve the position of women worldwide as educated women tend to have less children, and later Have strong and well enforced international regulation of fishing, especially of endangered fish stocks. As far as I'm concerned the Marine Stewardship Council could set the standards. Have strong and well enforced international regulation in forestry and farming: As little mono-culture as possible. And don't cut and burn wild lands to replace with intensive farming. As far as I'm concerned the Forest Stewardship Council could set the standards. As much as I hate to say it, because I love meat, we need to eat less meat. Even bringing it down to once or twice a week would have an impact. Prices of meat should go up, as they're currently sold for ridiculously low prices. We eat 37 billion chicken worldwide every year, about 5 per person per year. This leads to overcrowded chicken farms and avian diseases like Sars and Avian flu, but also all these chicken need feed, and the feed comes from farming intensively. this depletes soils and wastes farmland which could be used for feeding people. (who will destroy more wild lands to create more farmland to compensate) Don't eat fruit out of season, at least until we have changed our energy infrastructure. Don't drill in nature reserves. Nature reserves provide economical benefits like clean water and fresh air, and are also huge carbon storage sites Don't work ecologically frail, marginal lands. I won't ask people to be more energy efficient or use less, because let's face it, we all enjoy our creature comforts. But there are things we CAN do, and admitting we have a problem is the very first step. Furthermore it is my dream to see us reclaim the deserts in the world, which by now take up about 40% of the total land mass of the earth, and change them into grasslands or forests.

We don't have a one state world, but we do have a United Nations. We have international trade agreements. And we have a serious issue facing all of us. Did you know that the kingdom of the Seychelles has bought landmass in Somalia so that the people have somewhere to live while the ocean swallows their island archipelago? Rising sea levels (warmer seas) are already taking land. Ask them if they're panicking war-ists or people facing a real catastrophe.

Ahh smugness, heh. The alternative's not likely to protect him that much either, really. While I fundamentally disagree, let's say you're right; does that mean you should no nothing and stick your head in the sand?

What's your source on this?, doesn't sound right, you are talking about hydraulic fracturing? Actually gas prices are quite low right now, mostly because of fracking. Edit: Btw, the peak oil theory in your video has long been discredited, because it doesn't take shale oil into account. So you've found three new bottles, what time is it? "we got shale gas coming out of our ears!" True for the US, meanwhile nations like China with 2 billion people, and India, with 1.3 billion people, are rapidly developing. Which means all the more families wanting the same amenities the western world has: refrigerators, cars, airconditioning, computers. Do you want to say to those nations "**** you, you can't develop"? Because I imagine they'd laugh in your face. That's discounting the continent of Africa, or Brazil which is developing like crazy right now And they'll all require energy as well. And they'll all increase their pollution as well. Peak oil is not discredited. the US reached Peak oil in 1971. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/US_Crude_Oil_Production_versus_Hubbert_Curve.png It's just that because nations and companies tend to keep their record keeping opaque that we don't exactly know what can still be economically extracted. Shale gas is a stopgap measure, it will give a small spike of production for a short while, and at great expense to the environment, and after that, you're facing the same problems. It's much wiser to invest in renewables now.

Let me answer that as the rest of people here seems to have decided to do nothing first and then find justification. I simply can't afford to pay for them. the more we invest in renewables the cheaper it will become. it's expensive NOW, because it's small scale and as of yet relatively fringe. this is what government subsidies are supposed to be for. In Germany last year they managed to have a full third of their energy on their grid be "green". This did not lead to drastic pricing spikes.

Rofl, you don't even know what to whine about. If you're going to run and panicking at least have the good form to do it about things that probably will have an impact in your lifetime, like the impending collapse of the oceans ecosystems or the catastrophic losses of bee colonies. All these things are having an impact now, but you're right, the collapse of the oceans ecosystems, because we are overfishing, because coral reefs are bleaching because of global warming, reefs are a major producer of the earths oxygen, by the way. and the bees we are killing due to the use of pesticides and the amount of mono-culture we have out there, destroying entire habitats for large scale mono-agriculture. Thank you for helping me make my point. Besides I told you that I was only naming a smattering of the issues we're facing because of man made climate change, you are correct, there is a **** load more we are responsible for.

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apathy is death But by all means, wallow in your ignorance, wear it like a shield. We'll see how well it shields you and your family.

So I guess all the extinctions we're having because of poaching, overfishing, habitat destruction are all fake. the desertification of large parts of the earth is just an illusion. glaciers which have been extant for millennia which have halved in size in the last 50 years are just a freak phenomenon no doubt. And the world population of humans hasn't dramatically tripled in the last 50 years, increasing the number of consumers of fossil fuel. (for refrigeration, for transport, for fertilisation, for packaging, for electricity, for heating homes or air-conditioning) "I don't believe in global warming" disqualifies you as an intelligent human being, it's real, there is scientific consensus on it, and we're causing it. It's measurable and study after study adds to the body of evidence. We shouldn't be having this discussion. and the fact that so many of the forumites are still in the climate deniers camp scares me. I sincerely hope some of you are just trolling, because otherwise I can only say that you are colossal idiots. Especially you gfted1. I can't believe that attitude of "not my problem, it won't affect me" First of all, it will, because climate change is NOW, not in the future. You are being affected now by extreme weather like Katrina, like the frosty spring the US has been having for the last few years. like the drought which destroyed the corn harvest last year, like the massive wildfires every year in the US (like in California) like the drought Russia suffered in 2011 which ruined 70% of the wheat harvest. I name a few but really the list goes on and on. And these things affect society. scarcity like you get from failed harvests increases poverty, which is an indirect cause of things like the Arab Spring. Food riots are already happening in the world, but yes, these things don;t affect everyone on earth so they're easily ignored "far from my bed" Climate change is already adversely affecting you. As for the topic of shale gas: It's only worthwhile to extract shale gas while fuel prices are high, because it's a terribly energy inefficient process, it takes a barrel to get 2 barrels, and that's just early on, after a while it becomes harder. on top of that shale deposit yields are fundamentally impossible to predict, making the article shown completely pointless. So aside from the environmental concerns, it's not a wise investment for your long term economy. I think there is a video which everyone could enjoy, regardless of what side of the debate you are on, and I think it's very interesting. It's a lecture by a mathematician named Albert Bartlett, you may have heard of him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFnrvcS6AQ If you think it's long: try it for a few minutes, I'm sure you'll keep watching. But you guys have your heads stuck up your collective asses so far because you don't WANT it to be true. Denying it is easier than doing something about it. Now if that isn't the ultimate appeal to ignorance I don't know what is. Of course Tsuga C. is in the climate deniers camp, he's a forester, right? his job security is based on it being able to continue forever and ever and ever. Which might be in question if climate change is real. I can understand that this makes you uncomfortable. But that doesn't stop it from being true. You guys honest to god make me so angry, because you are the problem. You are the ones who keep society from acting. You all share in the responsibility for this planet's future (including you Gftd1) and you're behaving most shamefully. I find it very upsetting to keep being confronted with this level of ignorance, because it's killing our world. And I mean that without hyperbole. Ask yourself two questions: What kind planet would I like to live on? What's your problem with renewables? I believe ethical persons asks themselves the uncomfortable questions as well as the more pleasant and esoteric ones. 1. We are ****ing it up, we have ****ed it up, and we're continuing too **** it up 2. We don;t actually know if the consequences are reversible, but certainly it's unlikely you'll see extinct animals return, don't you agree? 3. The world took 21 million years to recover it's level of biodiversity after the last great extinction event. in 100 million years our planet will be too hot to survive on (because of the expanding sun) Do you think in that time another intelligent species will evolve capable of interstellar travel? or are you fine with consigning life on earth to its inevitable doom.

I pledged for the stronghold it better not be "just a better player house"

I guess it's time to do some community promotion: these are the monsters we conjured up! Use them!

Asian dragons are pretty awesome too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS8EIpAZybg They had a whole series of these skits.

great post overall, but I'm not sure if we're going to see a feudal system, and since the game takes place in a colonial setting, you could set up your own colonial establishment. I know the Dutch Crown didn't care much about what the Dutch East Indies Company did in Indonesia, as long as the the taxes kept flowing home. So you could have pretty much a despot's rule, in certain circumstances.

You should have all the time in the world for puzzles.

you're right it wasn't that battle. It was the battle of Tegyra. 1200 spartans vs... 300 sacred band

My favourite "romance" is with Visas, but that's mostly because of Kelly Hu's excellent voice acting. And that was all very subdued. I swear if you could somehow bottle Kelly Hu's voice, you could sell it as liquid desire.

I would love to have my own sub-tropical port city. Let's say this would fit the Dragoling Trading Empire, or the Church of Hezeng. The city would have two levels, the "top" is where the castle and fortifications are, and can only be reached by lift, or overland. it's basically on top of the sheer white cliff. (in which there are quarried homes as well) The cliff itself is about about 20 stories high the "bottom" is a 500-700 yard plain extending from the cliff towards the sea. this is the city and the deepwater docks. The shape of the settlement is like a "C" with a lighthouse and a fortified tower on each end. (so a protected harbour) there's a river cutting through the "top" level which ends in a waterfall splitting the settlement unevenly. The river created the small plain (otherwise it would be deep water only) but the silt this carries is a chronic problem for the bay. The "top" level extends outwards over a large plain which thanks to the river is irrigated. From the bottom level there is a narrow gulley on the north side (as per C shape) which allows some foot traffic to avoid the lifts. The Palace/Castle overlooks the city from the south/southwest side of the "C" and has access to a tributary from the river (or a small meandering canal) It is a trade city, where space is at a premium, and the cliffs themselves are being dug in to provide homes and businesses. the "underground bazaar" is a small marvel of lights and smells and fairly high domed subterranean marketplaces. Just outside the "C" there is a small island, from which the guard fleet operates to defend the city and incoming trade fleets from pirates or other foes. On top of the islet is a small barracks and fortification, effectively splitting the entrance to the protected harbour. ---------- This is mostly after you've cleared the harbour of silt, rebuilt the docks, rebuilt the lighthouse, rebuilt the fortifications, recruited a small fleet to defend your harbour, dug the canal to your castle, built the castle, built the lifts, and built the road next to the river to connect up with the main roads towards one of the Big Big Cities, and convinced sea trade and land trade that your port city is an excellent and safe trade hub. Its major weakness would be a lack of natural defences from the top-side plains. I suppose you can always build a wall.

well duh, "for their time" is the key. I have no doubt that in time far cry or crysis will be considered outdated graphics too, but at the time of release, serious sam was nothing more than an engine demo, the first which dealt with the warped perspectives you got in other engines the further things got from the centre of your FOV.

Easter eggs are polish, if you have time for making them you clearly have a finished product

fantastic Nonek, but you need to add spoiler tags for those of us (like myself) who haven't played planescape torment.

I can only watch Iron Man 3 here in 3D, I ****ing hate 3D movies.