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'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will dare mention
The Guardian ^ | April 26, 2018 | by Patrick Barkham

Posted on 04/26/2018 6:18:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The 86-year-old social scientist says accepting the impending end of most life on Earth might be the very thing needed to help us prolong it.

We’re doomed,” says Mayer Hillman with such a beaming smile that it takes a moment for the words to sink in. “The outcome is death, and it’s the end of most life on the planet because we’re so dependent on the burning of fossil fuels. There are no means of reversing the process which is melting the polar ice caps. And very few appear to be prepared to say so.”

Hillman, an 86-year-old social scientist and senior fellow emeritus of the Policy Studies Institute, does say so. His bleak forecast of the consequence of runaway climate change, he says without fanfare, is his “last will and testament”.

Can civilisation prolong its life until the end of this century? “It depends on what we are prepared to do.” He fears it will be a long time before we take proportionate action to stop climatic calamity. “Standing in the way is capitalism. Can you imagine the global airline industry being dismantled when hundreds of new runways are being built right now all over the world? It’s almost as if we’re deliberately attempting to defy nature. We’re doing the reverse of what we should be doing, with everybody’s silent acquiescence, and nobody’s batting an eyelid.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agitprop; energy; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; hydrocarbons; idiot; liar; maga; marxism; mayerhillman; moron; opec; patrickbarkham; socialism; socialist; socialscience
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1 posted on 04/26/2018 6:18:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You’re 86, Mayer. I don’t think you have to worry about it.


2 posted on 04/26/2018 6:20:08 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You’re doomed insomuch as your junk science is being disproved and will continue to be disproved in the coming years. It’s going to become evident that the sun plays a much bigger role in global climate than anything man can ever do.

Besides, you’d think with all of this talk about catastrophe that they’d be advocates for the space programs, but instead most of them want to increase social welfare programs. Liberalism is a mental disorder.


3 posted on 04/26/2018 6:20:59 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

At least he drops the pretense…the problem is capitalism.


4 posted on 04/26/2018 6:22:42 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: rarestia
Hillman, an 86-year-old social scientist

Just like Al Gore, another fake scientist.

5 posted on 04/26/2018 6:23:08 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
social scientist and senior fellow emeritus

Irrelevant AND washed-up is no way to finish one's career...

6 posted on 04/26/2018 6:23:11 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This guy is a social scientist. Almost by definition, he is a very leftist individual.

Wake me up when a large group of highly educated and respected climatologists who are not on the receiving end of government or other biased funding, and who are armed with rims of actual facts (not massaged to reach a particular result) comes
to the conclusion that “we are doomed.”


7 posted on 04/26/2018 6:23:16 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well... can’t live forever.


8 posted on 04/26/2018 6:23:55 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Well, he is a social scientist, so it is practically a given.


9 posted on 04/26/2018 6:24:00 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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A “Social Scientest” no les well that settles it/s


10 posted on 04/26/2018 6:24:09 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Ancesthntr; Oldeconomybuyer

Reams, not rims.


11 posted on 04/26/2018 6:24:48 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Ancesthntr; Oldeconomybuyer

Reams, not rims.


12 posted on 04/26/2018 6:24:50 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
From Malthus to the Millennium Bug, apocalyptic thinking has a poor track record. But when it issues from Hillman, it may be worth paying attention.

Or not.

13 posted on 04/26/2018 6:25:05 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So we’re not all inevitably going to die because of old age but we’re doomed because of “climate change”?

So if we throw billions of dollars at “climate change “, does that mean we will all live forever?

News flash, putz: The endgame of life is death. No one escapes it.


14 posted on 04/26/2018 6:25:49 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Social scientist? Absolutely useless. Another made up curriculum for stupid, lazy people to excel. He’s as much a scientist as “Dr” ruth is an expert... in anything.


15 posted on 04/26/2018 6:26:55 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In spite of the Climate nonsense. Death is coming to all anyway at some time.


16 posted on 04/26/2018 6:27:41 AM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did he say we “defy nature”? We are PART of nature. How can we defy it? That just makes no sense.


17 posted on 04/26/2018 6:27:52 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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In 4 billion years, give or take a half billion, the Sun will transition to its Red Giant stage, expanding in size all the way out to the orbit of Mars, incinerating everything inside that limit; Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars will all be vaporized to become stardust once again.....................


18 posted on 04/26/2018 6:28:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What does a “social scientist” know about actual science?


19 posted on 04/26/2018 6:29:52 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Our expiration date is issued the day we are born. It is how we live beteen the two dstes that really matter.


20 posted on 04/26/2018 6:31:27 AM PDT by richardtavor
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