Charissa’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2008)

Charissa’s comments from the Axis Mundi X group.

Wondertwin powers unite!!! Shape of.... whatever the fuck survives climate change!

yes, our doom, at least, will be precise. : )

ha ha ha ha ha... then you have the ultimate peace.

.... and then Cylons took over the planet....

there's significant evidence to show that major climate changes in our geologic past have been triggered by some kind of event, such as a meteor or asteroid impact, volcanic activity, or massive release of gasses from the oceans. I find it completely possible that human activity qualifies as an event, occurring in the natural world, which can trigger climate change. The earth tends to self-correct. It's just that the conditions it imposes during a time of correction are often less conducive to survival for mammals and other species. One way or another, the earth will survive. Whether we do or not depends on our ability to assess the situation and adapt. That's all.

now if we could just develop the technology to harvest that quarry of trash.

oh.

well... uhm... we loved they way you wiggled your arms.

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only if you kill everyone else and are left alone. Then you'll have a lot of peace.

I try and use my grandparents lives as a kind of model. They had good lives, always had enough, shared with those they loved... nothing extreme, nothing austere, just quiet and solid lives. Choosing well made things, using them until they could be used no more. It's odd that it's such an old fashioned notion now.

i'm big fan of incentives vs laws. i think a balance between govt and personal responsibility is necessary in order to steer away from fascism. disregard for the natural world has always bothered me, long before climate change was an idea being pimped around. I think it's rude to live with so little disregard for resources and pollution. It's lazy and sloppy and inelegant. The industrial age has fostered this greed for more than we need as a culture and as individuals. This disconnect from our natural environment, as if we are somehow separate from it.

I dislike the commercialization of environmentalism, but I also recognize that most people are sheep who need to be lead along by the nose. If that's what it takes for the majority of people to start behaving with more regard for their environment, so be it. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there just trying to make a buck off of it. Typical. But I hope that at it's heart it is a return to the core values of husbanding our resources and treating the planet with the respect it deserves. Gratitude. Care.

My big thing is trying to keep things local. Shipping stuff all over the world constantly seems so incredibly impractical. Why do I need people in China to make everything I touch? I find that premise incredibly lame.

Then again, I'm aware that I'm a bit of an anachronism. Crotchety old lady who remembers when gas was 28 cents a gallon. An ex boyfriend of mine once remarked to me that he expected I wished we all lived in bark huts. He wasn't far wrong. But I wouldn't go that far now. I kind of like my condo.

Two Myanmar fishermen have survived for almost a month in shark-infested waters by floating in a large ice box after their boat sank, rescue officials said.

The men, both in their 20s, were on a Thai fishing boat with 18 others when it sank in heavy seas off Australia's north coast on Dec. 23, said Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokeswoman Tracy Jiggins.

"They had no safety equipment, no beacons, no means of communication and they'd been drifting for 25 days," Jiggins told Reuters on Tuesday, describing the ice box as "desk sized."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28738808/

learn to surf.

Another name on the long list of people I didn't know were still alive until they died. Bye Robot!!! We loved your voice.

all I hear anymore when people want to argue about climate change is "blah blah blah blah blah".

I try and live by a pretty basic piece of common sense: don't shit in your own nest. The lowest impact I can have and still conduct my life is what I shoot for. It's what has meaning for me. I can't make everyone else live the same way. If other people don't have the sense to treat their own environment well it's par for the course. I'm awash in a sea of morons on a daily basis anyway. Why should this be any different?

Hoppiest. heee.

those are my favorite people... the ones who want to promote peace through violent attacks. smart like a chicken.

so many lunatics, so little time.

Cyril, please give your wife my sympathies. And I think your reaction is the smart move.

PETA is going to start researching into genetic alterations to make all creatures vegetarian. Until the Fruitarians take over.

they could have built a puppy condo that stretched for miles.

or else given homes to all the horses that were orphaned during the hurricanes.

BWAH HA HA HA!!!! oh yes, adorable. I can't wait to snuggle it when I go to bed tonight.