for the love of god, make the hatrack posts stop....

[phantom power]

:wow:

[Indiana_Dem]

1. HEy there! I LOVE hatrack's threads!

I'm a Peak Oil fanatic.:crazy: :applause:

[phantom power]

2. sometimes I try to encompass the horror, and I black out.

[hunter]

8. Bill Nye said there would be opportunities in global warming...

I caught him on CNN as he was talking about the Colorado avalanche.

I can't be critical of that outlook. At some point the only rational thing to do is go around the bend and delve into the madness. It's gonna take some brainstorms to dig us out of this mess we've made.

The really really bad stuff starts when every coastline becomes unstable, and international commerce grinds to a halt. It's hard to unload container ships on beaches of urban rubble, and illegal aliens will not be so much of a problem as our own homegrown U.S. citizen refugees. All in all this restructuring will be good for the earth, but very bad for the human economy that ignited this disaster.

If we keep our wits about us, maybe we can all keep from starving, but we are not going to be driving anywhere in fancy new cars of any sort. Alternative energy and sustainable economics will not be a matter of feel-good environmentalism but of simple survival.

[brokensymmetry]

3. I don't think one mind can truly comprehend

what's coming.

But it's going to be nasty.

[crim son]

4. I know somebody we could introduce him/her to:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=156
luckyleftyme2, meet hatrack. I'm sure you'll find something to discuss :evilgrin:

[mainegreen]

16. That's bad!

:spank:

:P

[amitten]

5. No shit. That stuff is SO depressing and SO beyond my control.

The only relief is when there's a renewable energy post...a happy Hatrack post, if you will.

Dear Hatrack,

Pleas slow down with the global warming posts. You are making many of your fellow DU'ers want to commit hasty suicide. While that may in some small way reduce the global warming, it is also quite sad. So, for the sake of our sanity, and for our very lives, please find it within your heart to post more happy things. Like the many articles about new large-scale renewable energy projects. A list of these would be like DU Prozac. Just a suggestion.

Yours 'till Armageddon,
amitten

[Dead_Parrot]

6. Seconded

Someone yank his broadband for 24 hours, and give us a chance to catch up. ;)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. ...

hatrack is my hero. :patroit:

[bananas]

9. We love you hatrack!

Keep it up!

[bananas]

10. There are two great things about the hatrack posts...

1) It interrupts the bickering between the pro/anti-nuke groups,
2) It keeps us up-to-date on the global devastation that is occuring.

[nosmokes]

11. hatrack's posts are dead on.but you can be part of the solution.

buy local.
buy organic.
buy fair trade.
walk.
bike.
use mass transit.
car pool.
reduce.
reuse.
recycle.
meet your neighbors and organize.

and remember that making a small difference is still making a difference.

[kestrel91316]

12. You forgot the most important one:

teach your children well.

We need to raise a generation of radical environmentalists who care about their own futures.

[GliderGuider]

15. Remember - if you're not part of the solution, you'll be part of the precipitate...

Rock on hatrack. This board is every bit the equal of Leanan's Drumbeat threads on The Oil Drum.

[hatrack]

19. OK, Mrs. Hatrack made me post it . . .

But it's a great concept:

http://www.pathtofreedom.org

This is a suburban family in Pasadena, CA (!) who have, over the course of some years, converted their backyard into the primary source of fruit and vegetables. They're also raising chickens and goats, and have really been able to take control of most of their food supply. Rain barrels, drip irrigation, seed saving - they're trying to learn it all and (perhaps more importantly) passing it on to neighbors and family.

One tip - a great place to look is their series of comparative photographs - you'll need broadband, 'cuz it's incredibly slow via dial-up, but it gives a wonderful sense of what was a suburban green rectangle and made it into what is, in effect, a small farm.

Their motto - "Using our hands as weapons of mass creation".

[hatrack]

13. BWA-HAH - HAHHAHHAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm thinking of offering my services for hire, kind of like the old Scrubbing Bubbles tv commercial:

"I peer into the abyss so that you don't have tooooooooooooooo . . . . "

[phantom power]

14. Sorry, I'm better now.

"It was hard not to enjoy the end of the world."
--J.H. Kunstler
http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2007/01/the_warming.html

[Javaman]

17. Actually the battle is between hatrack and jpak. They are about dead even. nt

[skids]

18. LOL. You're a hero hatrack...

...now I know to be on guard against feral cats!

[NNadir]

20. My life would be empty without Hatrack posts.

Hatrack has taught me more than any other poster at DU, and I've learned lots of stuff from him.

We will not act without realizing how extreme it is.

[Dover]

21. My only complaint about so many posts is that they all move too quickly

Just impossible to keep up and read them all. Would rather this forum moved a bit slower.
But the info is great.

[ramapo]

22. The highlight of each day

I always look forward to the daily barrage of hatrack posts. They fuel my innermost despair and hopelessness for the future. Without these posts, my cynicism might abate and I could even find myself wallowing in the daily shallow thoughts of my coworkers instead of building upon my already mighty knowledge of how we're all screwed but just don't know it yet..

[Boomer]

23. LOL! My thoughts exactly.

Oddly enough, I use hatrack's posts as a touch stone. No, I'm not just a drama queen, there really IS evidence to support my grim view of the (increasingly near) future.