Can our world be saved?

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With everything happening in this world today, do you think this world can be saved? Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Honestly? No

― v, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, you could read this and ask yourself if it's worth the saving.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nope, that's one of the reasons I'm anti-procreation.

― Nude Spock, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

christ, that reads like a national enquirer article 'sources say' and not one identified person listed as giving a quote on the record. that is the glory of conspiracy theories they are so open-ended they can't be proven untrue, none of those events they list appear to be related in the slightest. and if the oil companies are so hot to kill 5000 americans why don't they do something about the plunging oil prices caused by the slow economy which was only weakened more by the attacks. and for the options on the airline companies, the investigation is going on that bin laden's group invested short on the airlines knowing their stocks would tumble. i am surprisd pierre sallinger wasn't listed as the author.

― keith, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As to how true that article is I don't know, but there is something fishy going on.

― DG, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I don't think so. So we should all have a good time before it all blows to pieces or something.

― Menelaus Darcy, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Now I know why F. was a lurker - she was saving herself for the ONE TRUE SENTENCE!

― maryann, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

spock-

about the movement

― kevin enas, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the world will only be saved if people abandon their selfishness and are prepared to share what they have with the rest of the world, and cultivate a sense of respect and even sacredness towards our planet and everything on it. they will have to abandon their use of cars, fossil fuels and grow more food crops and fewer cash crops.

so i guess no.

― katie, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the oil companies and the cia and the bushes are all uber-rubbish, with their fingers in many dodgy pies and blood on their hands the world over, but that particular Conspiracy = no difft to David Ickeworld ie for success it requires the conspirators to be numerous, unconflicted, utterly ruthless competent and unleaky, and — in effect — 12-ft lizard ppl from beyond the stars.

In other words, if TRUE , then we wouldn't be reading about it here.

― mark s, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The world will do fine. Whether or not one can say the same for the human race, who cares.

― dave q, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dave q, it's not just the human race we are fucking up, it's the entire ecosystem and everything in it. the earth will survive just fine as a piece of scorched rock sure, but what fun is that? if the human race dies out eventually fine, but we're taking everything else with us as we go.

― katie, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with dave q on this one, katie. The world is very resilient. I can imagine us killing ourselves off, but the Earth will adapt and survive with whatever species fit the new habitat thriving. That doesn't mean to say I *want* this to happen. I'm a bit of a heritage fan when it comes to preserving habitats and species, including our own.

― Nick, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

katie it won't just be a scorched rock: plenty of lifeforms thrive on extreme heat range and high radiation

surely we "highers" are just the result of gaia's decadent glam-rock pomo poseur phase: when she grows out of it it's back to sheets of algae hurrah whatever

― mark s, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK so i am a big hippy, and a melodramatic one at that :) but (resorting to semantics!) the question was "can *our* world be saved, and what i guess i was trying to say that the world as far as *we* are concerned can't, if the human race carries on the way it is. i'm of to go hug some trees now...

― katie, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

why the fuck would we want to save the world after all the hassles it's given us?

― Geoff, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

take your mock cynicism away from me.

― katie, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am neither cynical nor mocking, seroously, this planet has given us shit from day one,e arthquakes, tidal waves, volcanos...it's trying to wipe us out and the long haired pinko hippies are yelling save the planet....that's cynicism

― Geoff, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what's 'pinko' mean?

― katie, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well it could be faggy or it could be commie, i never quite got around to asking the ppl who shouted it at me....

― Geoff, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pinko = gay punko

― mark s, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*pinko* is a traditional American (?) derogatory for liberals.

That conspiracy thing was a scary read, thankyou Ned, I'd read parts of it in other (trustworthy) sources, it was horrible to see the jigsaw with a lot more of the pieces fitted in - not a nice picture.

― chris, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I should say I'm actually with Mark S about said conspiracy theory's viability -- I tend to think most such theories testify to the skill (or lack thereof) of the person putting it all together. But it's the type of thing that provides a good boost to the 'yeah, right' side of my personality after the latest government kadiddle over how many people they killed.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The world will be okay, I hope. Optimism is the new rock'n'roll!

― james, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel utterly optimistic whenever I am asked this question for no reason at all. It's like, "The world will survive, and it'll all be wonderful. The world may not survive, actually, but it'll STILL be wonderful." How dangerous is that?

― Maria, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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