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jokuhl on June 17, 2009 - 12:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

well, if you're gonna get all 'Top40-philosophy' on us, I just heard my HighSchool Yearbook quote on the radio the other day..

"So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains;
And never even know we have the key" Eagles, Already Gone

Dear God, I hope that didn't sound like 'The Key to solving fusion', cuz it wern't. I'm reading the 'Crikey' article, which runs right along my mental mode, getting to some basic cultural assumptions, in this case..

..resource extraction underpins wealth, power and influence.. 

.. as an explanation for why 'power' never grabs excitedly onto Climate Change mitigation strategies that don't include MORE extraction.. like the PPL argument for the 'Realistic' investment in more CLEAN COAL.

Stoneheads!

I think 'Green Energy' should be audaciously renamed "FREE FUEL Technologies", since it'll be harder to put a negative cast on FREE than on Green, which already has Nausea, Envy, Decay and Nature in General- and the US Dollar as part of it's heavily mixed set of denotations.. but it is accurate to call it FREE FUEL, just that it is only available after the investment in often pricey or inconvenient collecting equipment.

Bob

"CLEAN COAL: If they buy that one, they'll buy ANYTHING!"

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ccpo on June 17, 2009 - 12:23pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

As a rather long bumper sticker:

In Climate Denial? Look at your kid(s)/grandkid(s).

That's what the end of your line looks like.

Green or gone.

Deal with it.

Maybe better as a subliminal message on every TV channel on the planet, running 24/7. Radio, too, I suppose.

And to stay with the theme:

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But Im running behind

Running on Empty - J. Browne

Cheers

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Thaicoon on June 18, 2009 - 5:03am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Okay. One for the 'Great Unknown Paradigm Top 40'

In the space between our cities;

A storm is slowly forming;

Something eating up our days;

I feel it every morning;

Our elements are burnt out;

Our beasts have been mistreated;

I tell you it's the only way;

We'll get this road completed.

From 'Destination' The Church

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