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El Bicho
February 10, 2021 at 9:29 pm
Is this “cL11M4Te Cr11SiS” in the room with us right now?
Divide Animations
February 10, 2021 at 10:31 pm
What?
DubBeGood bud
February 11, 2021 at 7:57 am
Hahahahahahaha.
Sannidor
February 10, 2021 at 9:31 pm
Climate change being politicized is a scam. Zero evidence of human influence on weather natural cycles – not enough data and all current predictions happened to be alarmist nonsense. Demonizing CO2 as a pollutant is just insane. Not buying this crap.
George Gates
February 10, 2021 at 9:35 pm
There is NO “climate crisis” ! This is an agenda by the radical left and democrats to have more CONTROL over our lives.
zee
February 10, 2021 at 9:41 pm
The world will end in 2005 due to climate change .. Al gore .. Nobel prize winner for this .. 🤣🤣
Tom Burns
February 11, 2021 at 4:58 pm
@Aspartame69
I don’t think talking about an ever-changing country like Bangladesh or any other country, unless you have been there, and know the good & the bad of the Government & most importantly – The People – is very smart. Mr. 69, you brought politics into a post about ‘Climate Change,’ and the strength of the ‘Left,’ by what I read seems to be waning, but the immediate problem facing Bangladesh is twofold, and you don’t need to live there to know what they are: COVID – 19 – 20, and 21, ‘Variations’ of the Virus, and it’s ability to adapt, and, of course a Planet in Peril. Thank you my friend… tom
Noah Aubrey Linus Sorensen
February 11, 2021 at 8:53 pm
he never said this
Tom Burns
February 11, 2021 at 10:46 pm
Zee ,
Before you quote anybody, especially a man who does his research as Al Gore it would give you credibility if you said where & when he said this ‘Bull-lony.’ There’s no indication that he said anything of the sort . If I’m wrong quote your sources. Your pal…tom
Tom Burns
February 11, 2021 at 10:51 pm
@zee
YES… I AM COMMENT POLICE.
YOU ARE KNUCKLEHEAD, DOOMSAYER …ZEE YA!
Aspartame69
February 12, 2021 at 12:46 am
@Tom Burns Yes, the left is weak except they control all 3 branches of the US government (by fraud), social media, holywood, mainstream news, schools, universities and so much more. Just because the vast majority of people dont believe that white people are the blame for other groups bad behaviour, doesnt mean the left doesnt have too much power. Trust me, the climate crisis is just another facet of the attack on western society. Just as the previous incarnations where it went through several stages of warning us of an upcoming ice age, then an upcoming feedback loop of warming. All just rubbish to destabilise.
Tom Burns
February 12, 2021 at 3:47 am
@Aspartame69
One thing I’ve learned is the older you get the more clearly you see that left, right and fence straddlers are always going to be there. Power is continuously shifting mostly ending in the same place it began; most of it wasted energy. I’m seeing more & more that right & wrong are most important, Left & Right has little meaning to me. Posit: Right & wrong are subjective notions. I know what’s right, but another thinks right is something different. I see Democrats, and Republicans always fighting, not working for the people only themselves, it’s endless, and frustrating. It’s an undertow pulling you without direction. That’s how I look at it tonight. Tonight I am beginning to lose my faith in how government is conducted in America, and wonder was America ever united at all. Maybe I’m just tired.
Take care, Mr.69
Chad M
February 10, 2021 at 9:45 pm
Not a climate crisis, it’s a corruption crisis.
MorrisOnions06
February 10, 2021 at 9:50 pm
Please add a link to a single peer-reviewed scientific paper that shows that there is a ‘climate crisis’.
Newt
February 10, 2021 at 10:14 pm
Have you ever read a peer-reviewed scientific paper, or is that just a slew of buzz words to you?
DubBeGood bud
February 11, 2021 at 7:56 am
They can’t because there is none.
Mac
February 10, 2021 at 9:55 pm
They look like mother and daughter.
Mac
February 11, 2021 at 7:45 am
@Fred Dobbs “u p ur’s” by m.e.
Fred Dobbs
February 11, 2021 at 7:56 am
@Mac I’m sorry, I don’t speak Spanish. Racist.
Mac
February 11, 2021 at 8:08 am
@Fred Dobbs Lame asl.
Fred Dobbs
February 11, 2021 at 8:13 am
@Mac damn. You must have a good data plan on that welfare phone.
Aspartame69
February 11, 2021 at 8:35 am
@Mac Oh wow, you said something true and someone called you a racist? Youll get used to it 🙂
Gaasuba Meskhenet
February 10, 2021 at 10:18 pm
People coming together to fight their government’s abuse and neglect. Always happy to see such productive anarchy
Aspartame69
February 11, 2021 at 1:31 am
People thinking that its the governments responsibility to provide and cater for its citizens every need, are people who are old enough to be adults, but never actually qualified as adults.
Gaasuba Meskhenet
February 11, 2021 at 1:36 am
@Aspartame69 wtf does it exist for then?
Aspartame69
February 11, 2021 at 1:40 am
@Gaasuba Meskhenet To attempt to stop other people stealing the things you created, and to punish those that actually do.
Romanski
February 15, 2021 at 8:31 pm
@Aspartame69
That’s why I think that companies shouldn’t be run like dictatorships by CEOs and shareholders and companies shouldn’t be run by the state, but rather companies should be run by the workers themselves in a direct democratic fashion. This results in more transparency and most importantly, a much better distribution of wealth among workers.
Economic democracy instead of economic dictatorships.
Aspartame69
February 15, 2021 at 8:38 pm
@Romanski Democracy has no way to protect itself from bad ideas. Why would you undermine a system that has gradually increased peoples standards of living for more than a century and replace it with an untested and on the face of it, unworkable mess of administrative turmoil. Democracy lasts only until you realise you can vote to give yourself money. Then either the democracy, or in this case, the company, collapses.
Romanski
February 15, 2021 at 8:53 pm
@Aspartame69
Why are you saying that worker cooperatives aren’t real?
Aspartame69
February 15, 2021 at 9:14 pm
@Romanski Im saying that its no coincidence that the vast majority of successful companies are not worker cooperatives.
Tom Burns
February 10, 2021 at 10:22 pm
Solar power is good. Electric cars are also good.We’ve spoken of Climate Change for many years. No matter how serious it’s becoming only a handful, like yourselves, take it seriously. Change on a Planetary scale is what’s needed. We do not have this kind of technology yet. Sorry to speak gloom & doom. There are too many variables involved in stopping what’s already become a multi faceted Planetary Pattern that’s been happening for over a Century. Could we stop an
Ice Age?
TJ C.O.D.
February 10, 2021 at 11:25 pm
Tax and war are the biggest causes of all problems. Fix that before you wanna fix anything else.
sad oak
February 10, 2021 at 11:28 pm
This is truly incredible and gives me so much hope!
AMANDA BARNES
February 10, 2021 at 11:45 pm
bla bla bla more crap for the brain dead:
Mutant Buzzard
February 10, 2021 at 11:57 pm
Climate change is natural, the way to fix it is for liberals to mind their own beeswax
Alex Watson
February 11, 2021 at 12:19 am
The woke disease is a ferocious thing, not even Ted is safe. R.I.P og ted
JT
February 11, 2021 at 12:32 am
Agenda 21 urban bug boxes. Buffalo is still a slum bc it’s minority residents can’t take care of anything. I live here..
Pete C
February 11, 2021 at 12:42 am
The best way to solve it is to wake up to the predators like greta thunberg and Al gore charlatans pushing a fake climate crisis.
David Kirlew-Morris
February 11, 2021 at 2:23 pm
You talk about the best way to solve a climate crisis and then say that it’s fake. You make no sense.
Global warming is is a real thing and it desparately needs to be dealt with.
Al Gore and Greta Thurnberg are only that vocal because too many are ignoring it and/or not acting quick enough.
Am I an activist in this area? No. I simply haven’t got the time. However, I do what I can to contribute to change and I don’t ignore the science. I’m also glad there are people out there who are pushing for change at a national and global level.
Pete C
February 11, 2021 at 2:46 pm
@David Kirlew-Morris Climate change exists because climate changes, has always changed ever since Earth has had a climate.
The issue is that it is being used as a tool to push fear saying there is a catastrophe coming round the corner. There isn’t. It’s all a psyop.
David Kirlew-Morris
February 11, 2021 at 3:02 pm
@Pete C Yes, climate changes, but statistics show that temperature increases are way more than they should be. This has been caused over time by things like mass industrialisation, releasing of harmful substances into the atmosphere, not enough regulation, etc.
Pete C
February 11, 2021 at 3:22 pm
@David Kirlew-Morris Yes, the world is getting dirtier but that is not a climate crisis.
Earth is getting greener, did you know that? Greener means more plants. More plants, more animal life on this planet. NASA has proved this.
Chew Papa
February 11, 2021 at 12:50 am
I’m just glad they stopped the pipeline, now we can put some more truckers back to work by delivering that oil in their trucks. Don’t worry about any spills as I’m sure biden has it covered.
Aspartame69
February 11, 2021 at 1:31 am
No doubt biden will just keep the US in lockdown forever, so you wont even need the oil.
Gerald Key Sr.
February 11, 2021 at 12:54 am
You want fix the clinate,…….replant the rain forest stop cutting the lungs of our planet out. 2 instead of running pipelines for OIL run water and seed the Earth and make it fertile in places that have not been for thousands of years. 3 use the actual technology that we have had for the last 60 years instead of oil, coal, and natural gas for greed. It is not mankind’s fault for the climate in living it is from those of GREED. Simple phrase given to me that would have solved all of our worldly years ago,………”Love the father love one another.”
Matthew Bunn
February 11, 2021 at 3:33 am
Anytime I see something labeled as “community ‘anything’,” and it’s not powered by a blockchain, I disregard it because it is a lie.
DubBeGood bud
February 11, 2021 at 7:55 am
This is TED, the ministry of lies.
ANGEL MUSIC VIDEOS
February 12, 2021 at 8:18 pm
I wonder if its cummunity driven whos the cummunity banning together making sure things are changed are you guys in there?
Кубинец Ценибук
February 11, 2021 at 3:41 am
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iviaviator
February 11, 2021 at 4:28 am
Down with racism! Let’s take an example from the African continent! This is the most highly developed place on Earth! This is the place where the close-knit black population shows the rest of the world an example of social equality and the most advanced high technology!
Krunoslav Stifter
February 11, 2021 at 5:32 am
Climate change mind virus is the epic challenge of our lives. It has nothing to do with people, climate always changes. But cult behavior does not.
Macville
February 11, 2021 at 5:34 am
Seems like Ted thinks that GLOBAL warming is caused by racism in USA
Eli Nope
February 11, 2021 at 6:03 am
What is there to solve in change? The climate has always been changing. You don’t solve a dance, you just keep dancing with it. Go ahead and name me a time that the climate wasn’t changing. I am no climate change denier, I see the problem just like you do. But I can’t follow people who don’t shoot straight. So many promises have been made and broken by people just like you countless times in the past. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Line Srew1
February 11, 2021 at 2:41 pm
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immanuel godson
February 11, 2021 at 10:48 pm
Climate crisis is a hoax
Rohitd93
February 14, 2021 at 4:53 pm
Hi there, I was wondering when we talk about today’s money, we say it’s created from thin air. There is no backing like gold for this money. I was thinking the money printing is done by cutting trees, why don’t we have a system, where the entire money supply is backed by valuable trees which have value and usability, plus they are life force on this planet.
This way we will value the trees plus we will save the planet and stop Govts to print money as and when they want it. Please share your thought and if someone from Economics can explain about it, whether it is possible or not.
mumbaikan
February 16, 2021 at 2:03 am
So true, we as humans are indeed damaging the nature. We should take care of ourselves.