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The age of stupid started when they made this film!


This is a horrible waste of film,data or whatever media it is propagated with.
What a load of Horse Sh*t! Just more of the Al Gore crap to try and find new ways to TAX the population.

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Adorable. But you're really quite vapid if you don't think climate change is legitimate.

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Climate change is legitimate! Dont get me wrong man, it's just that to belive that Man is the cause is REDICULOUS! This is a natural prosses of the planet. Look at the storms on Saturn ,look at Sun spots,learn about the cosmos and Planetary techtonics. Man is a cochroach on a behemoth,we cannot steer it nor can we change it! SO why would we belive a lot of Polititians who say we should be TAXED for it......yes it's all about TAXES! You pay while they fly around in Gulfstreams. Do they have a Themostat that can turn down or up? NO!

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That seems to be the root problem these days...everything is always about TAXES. It's all about your money. "I got mine, the rest of you be damned!" "I'm in the boat, the rest of you swim!"

TAXES funded the propagation of the Internet to a large degree. In other words, if it weren't for TAXES, we wouldn't be hearing from you.

Hmmm...maybe you're on to something after all!

==JJS==

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Theres no getting around taxes! Hell ,I dont mine paying for infrastructure, Roads and Militarys are needed. I do mind paying the ultra elite richest peaple in the world more money for trumped up twisted hypothseis. The Internet is atleast usefull.They are not. You all can DONATE to Al Gore all you want ,but dont expect me to be his FOOL!

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OK, so we're agreed that TAXES (you forgot to capitalize it) are not inherently evil, we're just haggling over where the line is drawn. We tend to draw that line where we think the government's rightful place in our lives should end. That comes down to a matter of philosophy, or in this case, where you think the emergency is bogus and I do not.

I think you can agree, though, that if the emergency is real (bear with me for a moment), that it would indeed be a global crisis of epic proportions. For that reason, it becomes tremendously important that we get this right. As hard as it is for us non-scientists to slog through the scientific mumbo-jumbo, it really behooves us to do our homework and not just have a knee-jerk reaction based on our individual mindsets of either, "Oh, it's just another scam by the elites to take our money" or "Oh, us liberals need to save the planet from the mean, nasty conservatives". If ever there was a time to get past that, learn the actual facts and face the truth, this is it.

That's what I did a few years ago. Back then, I was a GW skeptic, based on the fact that I'd heard it all before - global cooling, greenhouse effect, yadda yadda, same old same old. But then I did the grunt work, I read stuff, FROM BOTH SIDES. I've read Gore, and I've read Monckton, and everything in between.

Please do the same before reacting to this. It's REAAAAALLY important we get this right. That's all I'll say.

==JJS==

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I'm always amazed to see how Americans complain about TAXES. In France twice of our salary is for the Governement and almost everything is twice the price of everything in the US. I think USA is a great country but i'm also disappointed to see how Americans think they're the center of the world. Believe me you're lucky, and even with TAXES i'm still luckier than Irakies and other poor people.
I liked that documentary and i think that every countries should work together, but for me it's sci-fi and only happens in Star Trek. I actually got a 12 years old daughter, and seeing how the world is going i'm getting very worried about her future...

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The stop driving and using electricity. They (coal, oil, gas) are the ones who have succeeded in brainwashing you.

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People with views like that will continue to be the patrons of The Age of Stupid. Science is settled you can't change anything about it, They have known about this way before Al Gore made his slide shows.

So its not like some old scientist will say: "I told you so", it means all human beings have to take responsibility about the consequences of our actions. Or we'll face deadly consequences and there no denying.

This film was just giving a more casual or humorous approach to this issue with real science. So Propaganda my ass, shock comes in and its not one person its all of us!

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No; obv the age of stupid started when you made that post!

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Sorry! The Age of Stupid started way before that, as of your input.....

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