Apparently I'm immortal.

No, I think you guys misunderstand what it is saying. It is saying that you should die. As in, they think you have used up your resources, and have already taken your fair share, so you should die. Something about that screams super veggie Nazi to me.

I think Scoob got it right--they're saying when you should die, as in some tree-hugging 'tard thinks you've used up your oxygen quota. I can't think of a more transparent look into the real minds of radical environmentalists.

I like how using a Taxi produces less CO2 than walking/using a bike.

Edit: ouch made a bad typo.

I mainly use my car.....but I don't think that's fair considering I live 4 miles from civilization. Do they want us all to live in self run mud-hut villages or something?

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They also don't understand that not all cities are created equal. If I was to ride a bike to work(I am in biking distance), I would be run over on the side of the road because there aren't any bike lanes. When I was a kid(~14), people would honk at me when I was completely out of the way on my bike. It would surprise me so much I'd nearly lose control. It just isn't feasible.

Same happened to me when I was travelling 45 km/h downhill in my old hometown. Apparently because 45 km/h isn't 50 km/h, and even in spite of the fact that I was alone on the road and he could have passed perfectly safely, that merited a bout of "get out of the way, stupid kid" (albeit to the tune of a horn).

The bastard essentially forced me onto the dirt shoulder at speed and I nearly lost control.


This test makes me think, personally, that the ones who write it are the ones who "should die" for advocating such crap.

Oh, I know it's a complicated subject that I probably shouldn't have brought up, but I did anyways, despite not doing any research before hand. My point was, the whole "green" movement is so riddled with snake oil that it's hard to get behind any of it at all.

All I know is that I drive my fuel efficient car to my job, and try to eat a decent diet(which is rather hard to do when you are class 3 lazy).

I still haven't seen Soylent Green, but I caught most of Logan's Run through a rather nice site that was shutdown for copyright infringement. It was interesting, although not nearly as deep as I had hoped. I guess it was a huge leap for TV/Movies at the time, at the very least.

I can't actually look at all this stuff - flash doesn't want to work properly in linux for me.

Probably makes more sense in context.

Malthus won't be denied, Gug, just put off for a while by new agricultural techniques. The fact remains that the human population can increase much faster than supplies of food possibly can. Sure, modern western countries have about replacement birthrates, but if all the poorer countries lived like we do, there's no way we'd possibly have enough food to feed everybody.

Of course, it'll probably never get to that point, what with peak oil coming within the next ten years or so. There goes the western lifestyle.

edit: Also, the ABC is not a branch of the Aussie government. It's government-funded, yes, and the board is appointed by the government, but it's run almost like a separate corporate entity, and it's not supposed to show any bias either way.

Oh, and I don't think the board's changed since John Howard finally got kicked out of Australian politics, about a decade late.