Posted: 1/29/2011 4:19:02 PM EDT
| P. O. D on the History Channel now, first few minutes are unnerving. 13 year old wants more food and ammo. |
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I'm watching it now on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSpLUpiMkj0 |
Frankly, I thought it was a bit too much "shock value" than anything. The Peak Oil guy was where I started to lose it, then they introduced the guy who thought we would all be overrun by machines...The only thing missing was "midwest supervolcano guy" 
I have to say that I thought it had very little useful info that most SF members didn't already have. We all know the world is an unsafe and unstable place already... |
i was gonna post the same thing |
| I started to watch on Youtube, but I dropped out when the one guy insisted we're "running out of water". Please. Aquifers may be depleting from agricultural use, but water is all around us. Using it doesn't destroy it. Agriculture will adapt to local water situations, it always has. |
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Frankly, I thought it was a bit too much "shock value" than anything. The Peak Oil guy was where I started to lose it, then they introduced the guy who thought we would all be overrun by machines...The only thing missing was "midwest supervolcano guy"
I have to say that I thought it had very little useful info that most SF members didn't already have. We all know the world is an unsafe and unstable place already... What the heck is a midwest super volcano? Also regarding peak oil, the U.S. has enough oil, we have chosen not to use it for political reasons, also the U.S. could build a new electrical grid and system of decentralized nuclear power plants across the country. |
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I started to watch on Youtube, but I dropped out when the one guy insisted we're "running out of water". Please. Aquifers may be depleting from agricultural use, but water is all around us. Using it doesn't destroy it. Agriculture will adapt to local water situations, it always has. It was not the fact that we are running out of water it is the fact that we are running out of usable clean water. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I started to watch on Youtube, but I dropped out when the one guy insisted we're "running out of water". Please. Aquifers may be depleting from agricultural use, but water is all around us. Using it doesn't destroy it. Agriculture will adapt to local water situations, it always has. It was not the fact that we are running out of water it is the fact that we are running out of usable clean water. Is this a fact? That "we" are running out of usable. clean water? Seriously, what is the basis for this being a "fact"? Dr. Paul Ehrlich wrote books that purported to be factual in the 1970s saying we would run out of food. Instead, obesity is endemic. Likewise, in 1976 TIME magazine published the "facts" we would soon have a new Ice Age, but now the "facts" are that we will die of intense high temperatures, I mean "climate change" (which may include an ice age?). The "fact" was that Alar poisoned apples, but it didn't. Or that hairspray was causing the ozone to go away (except that "global warming" causes too much ozone or something... too many "facts"). |
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What the heck is a midwest super volcano? The idea that Yellowstone Park is the epicenter for a gigantic eruption that is due to take place any day now...probably in 2012. And yes, I agree that the "facts" in this story leave a lot to be desired. Even if you accept that we are running out of potable water and that peak oil occured in 1970 and a lot of other presumptions that these "experts" seem to buy into without question. Then this show was still pretty useless, IMO. |