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I Was a Futurist, Until I Realized There May Not Be a Future
The Huffington Post's Green The Blog ^ | June 5, 2015 | Schuyler Brown

Posted on 06/05/2015 9:16:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The clock has run out on the climate change debate. It's time for predictions to give way to radical action.

For most of my career, I've been a trend spotter, sometimes referred to as a futurist. I've divined trends for companies seeking to innovate; anticipated consumer appetites; and kept pioneering brands ahead of the pack. My work has been a passion, a calling, never just a job. So, it was fundamentally disorienting when I realized recently, I'd lost my feeling for the future.

Gradually, over a period of I don't know how long -- months? -- my usually strong connection with intuition was lost. Something was impeding my inner vision. It happens to writers, I thought, why not futurists? I was blocked. I went about my work mechanically and began to fear I might be losing my touch. Then one day, a fortuitous meeting with a friend brought resolution.

I met Daniel, a writer, for tea at a downtown café to discuss his current work-in-progress: a spiritual perspective on climate change and the unfolding of an ecological mega-crisis. I'd been a fan of his work for years and was curious to hear how he was approaching this critical topic.

For my part, I'd been following climate-related news and had what I'd thought was a healthy concern -- strong enough to impact consumption patterns for my family and influence my political choices. But, mainstream media (even the liberal media I favor) had done me a disservice. By focusing more on the debate around climate issues rather than the details of its reality, I'd come to think I was on the right side of history simply for believing it was true. I could roll my eyes at those ignorant "climate deniers"(continued)

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Religion; Science; Society; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: chickenlittle; climatechange; climatechangehoax; disaster; doomage; doomsdaycult; extinction; globalagenda; globalwarming; globalwarmingcult; globalwarminghoax; liberalagenda; nihilism; prophecy; schuylerbrown
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These are the people that'll run the world soon.
1 posted on 06/05/2015 9:16:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am overwhelmed by his humility.


2 posted on 06/05/2015 9:19:21 PM PDT by Dianna
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They run it now.


3 posted on 06/05/2015 9:20:09 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Dianna

I am overwhelmed by his insanity.


4 posted on 06/05/2015 9:20:19 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: Dianna
I have spent a great deal of time with talentless unknowns who refer to themselves as "often referred to as..."
5 posted on 06/05/2015 9:21:55 PM PDT by golux
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/schuyler-brown/

“She” is a buzz marketer who hops around from firm to firm faster than hookers move from trick to trick.


6 posted on 06/05/2015 9:22:48 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The writer is not funny-crazy - she’s evil- crazy. She intends to kill millions of people by joining others who intend the same thing. This article is her announcement of that intention.


7 posted on 06/05/2015 9:24:04 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Snickering Hound

So Faith Popcorn without that gravitas?


8 posted on 06/05/2015 9:24:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was an American until I realized we live in Fantasyland.


9 posted on 06/05/2015 9:24:49 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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awwwwwwwwwww poor thing, OH NOES climate Change, hey if he thinks there is no future he should do the right thing and off himself, preferably now


10 posted on 06/05/2015 9:26:15 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Snickering Hound

Oh that thing is a woman, my bad


11 posted on 06/05/2015 9:26:32 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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So Faith Popcorn without that gravitas?

She wishes she had that influence. And those Nancy Pelosi looks.

12 posted on 06/05/2015 9:31:33 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I know, right?


13 posted on 06/05/2015 9:34:24 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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They ruin it now.

There, I fixed it.

14 posted on 06/05/2015 9:39:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: Talisker

How does she plan on confiscating all those weapons?


15 posted on 06/05/2015 9:43:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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The statistics are overwhelming and the evidence now irrefutable that we are facing an unavoidable ecological, sociological mega-crisis the likes of which the world has never seen if we continue on the current trajectory of carbon emissions and waste production we've been on. Scientists say we are now in the midst of the sixth mass extinction on the planet, the worst since the dinosaurs.

Chicken Little drama queen award.

The ice age that killed off the dinosaurs was not caused by the dinosaurs or man.

Man is not killing the climate now.

BTW, we ARE facing a mass extinction bigger than the toll of all the wars in the 20th century. The numbers dead from abortion alone put us there. Add in those who's conception was halted by The Pill and the tally is hundreds of millions (possibly billions). And that IS a man-made act.

Over a hundred million dead from Communism as well. Another man-made act.

16 posted on 06/05/2015 9:47:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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A similar message was imparted to me directly by the Native American activist and environmentalist, Winona Laduke. She said her people have an ancient prophesy that says this is the time of the Crossroads. One path will be well-worn but charred, the other will be not-well-worn and green.

So now pagan prophecy is the basis for industrial reforms? What happened to the separation of church and state?

17 posted on 06/05/2015 9:49:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
She sounds like a Scientologist afflicted by existential constipation. Sometimes a bull crap just won't suffice. Only an elephant crap can void the abyss.

No, no, no...don't look up. Just concentrate on your navel. Soon you'll have your epiphany. And if you learn to relax, you may even achieve multiple epiphanies.
18 posted on 06/05/2015 9:49:37 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some people are sick and tired of waiting for the world to end, in a way that would validate their paranoia, and allow them to loudly gloat at the doubters.


19 posted on 06/05/2015 9:52:32 PM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yup. She should have quoted some drum circle hippies after that Indian Winona. Better buzz.

20 posted on 06/05/2015 9:55:17 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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