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This belief discourages constructive action, and can result in irrational acts by people in despair, individually, or as nations, willing to do anything to derail the juggernaut we are told is carrying us, inevitably, to destruction."

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Again we are faced with the utter BS brought to us by the change from within optimists......

Now I know this tripe is spewed by the truck load across the world wide media, nothing new. but I always feel compelled to express my frustration with this Monty pythonesque attitude (...*Always look on the bright side of life* lalalalalalala)

Someone I am close to expressed it crudely yet perfectly "It doesn't matter how stupid you are as long as your positive enough" I would venture a guess that this is tattooed on the inside of 90% of the human populations eyelids, and is secretly chanted each morning over a bowl of corn flakes while reading the entertainment section of their favorite website (for those that can afford the internet and corn flakes that is)

this same type of "technology will save us all if we believe it hard enough" mindset brought us fantasies such as wiping out world hunger, ending wars, and eliminating poverty and inequity..... yet one only need to peer over the edge of their cereal bowl to see how far this blind optimism has brought us.......

7+ billion people
-80% live on less than $10 per day
-27-28 percent of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted.
-Some 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation.
-Number of children in the world 2.2 billion
-Number in living and dying in poverty 1 billion (every second child)

Wow we've come a long way baby haven't we?.......

What this type of magical thinking brings us it the exact attitude that the "optimists" try and pin on the alarmists...... inaction, and what actions are taken are usually those that are self serving self gratifying do absolutely nothing to solve the problem.like dolphin friendly tuna, energy efficient appliances, or hybrid cars..... It makes people feel like they are doing, while still engaging in the same behaviours that are causing the problem. it also allows for burden shifting as they place their faith in some unseen genius that will design a magic bullet while they sit in front of their boob toobs farting the planet along it's continued path to destruction......

It is far easier and yes much more pleasant to be an optimist.
but when it comes to the science of climate change, and environmental devastation, it is not the optimists that have made us aware of how dire our predicament is. The optimists with their heads up their ass have run off to the polling stations to repeatedly vote in stooge politicians under the advisory of oil and weapons barons. the optimists have repeatedly invested "hope" in "green" technology that has boosted the profit margins of all the corporations that caused the problem in the first place. the optimists gleefully cleanse their conscience by donating money to WWF who champions the over exploitation of krill and the hunting of the last polar bears for monetary gain....

I hope peoples despair leads to social upheaval and unrest. I hope the despondency of the global doom inspires radical action against the forces that have cemented our demise... We should only be so fortunate as to see the collapse of the corrupt and inept before the entire planet is taken down by their greed and narcissism... so yes I have hope too.... but it is tempered by the knowledge that as with all issues man has faced in the past the optimists will most likely win and kill us all....