@pakkei: Some truth to that, but any of the three could be in tears

@NorthernRoamer: It was a bit tongue-in-cheek, you know.

@Dr. What?: What if our survival depends on the elimination of

@Dr. What?: Billions won't flood. Most projections are for about a 50 cm sea level increase in 10 years. That's about 20 inches. We will adapt to this by...taking a step back from the water.

@Dr. What?: Sorry, not "... in large part the result of burning fossil fuels..."

@Freelancer λ 1-1: Well, I think Asia, because, you know, Russia is in Asia. What, do you think all Asians are Oriental in appearance? Feh.

@Freelancer λ 1-1: NObody wanted to cooperate in Copenhagen. US wouldn't sign Kyoto because most of the developing world (China, India, for instance) were not bound by it. Would have made us even less competitive than we already are.

@slumz: +1 for calling a spammer a spammer

@pmindemann: +1 for arrogance argument.

@capitalsown: No, you're not wrong for thinking these things, but you are a heretic in the Church of Gaia.

We learned pretty quick when my daughter was little that we could never have two other little girls spend the night. Inevitably, one will get her feelings hurt. Two girls, no prob. Three, big prob. 4 or 5 could work, but still bigger risk than just 2. And bigger mess to clean up in the morning.

@Freelancer λ 1-1: Sigh. Changing the terms of the discussion doesn't make you right. [en.wikipedia.org] Russia is in Asia, along with 47 other pollutin' countries and nearly 4 billion pollutin' humans. Many of those other countries are much worse than Russia, which goes to my original point: There is far more…

@Ccomfort: Hmmmm, well, a flying car IS every man's dream, isn't it? Or a jet pack.

@Freelancer λ 1-1: Ummmm, Russia is in Asia. They don't seem to be too concerned about the air. China, also in Asia, still putting up coal powered electricity plants.

@Stuart Cooper: I'm pretty sure I didn't say "Asia is killing the world". And just because SK is clean, doesn't mean that Russia or China or North Korea or most of India and so on, are clean. I doubt that South America is entirely pristine, too.

Now, repeat this scene thousands of time all over the Asian continent and you will understand that it doesn't make a damn bit of difference if we drive a Prius or a Volt, a bicycle or if we walk everywhere we go. And when Asia is all built up and the Asian enviros are raising Cain, a hundred years or more from now,…

@D.LYTE: Because doing this made me feel like Batman, controlling their movements with my sonic projection abilities.

We used to go fishing in small ponds and would often stay until we pretty much couldn't see. As it was getting dark, the bats would come out and start to feed and drink and would fly right between us as we sat in the boat. Which we did not like. So, we would just start to whistle and like a Black Bolt sonic blast…

@Amdesi: Umpty. Umpty is good.

@FriarNurgle: US corporate taxes, at 35%, are second highest in the world. Google danced out of paying taxes legally and by using tax avoidance schemes bought and paid for by other companies.