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Subject: Re: Age of Stupid.2009.nfo 4nd opinion
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In reply to "The Cable Guy" who wrote the following:
> On 2018-08-08 16:48:45 +0000, m2 said:
>
> > thanks for the response. about the subtitles, the ones you mention
> > are encoded inside the film. I deleted the subtitle files from you,
> > but still get the foreign subtitles. try it yourself... those
> > subtitles you posted only have english language names of director,
> > writer, etc, and nuttin more.
> >
> > FYI, I am enjoying bits and parts of the film, and just wish somebody
> > would make a coherent, cohesive, comprehensive, etc film about
> > climate change that can make a real difference in the world. The fact
> > that this was from 2009, and only now I'm hearing of it, means it
> > didn't make any significant impact on public opinion. it's more about
> > entertainment than educational, like "real" documentaries do! that's
> > all i was saying. i wasn't saying that it was fake news! it is just
> > with such material, they could have made a more powerful film, but it
> > would have been called "boring."
> >
> > you are correct: i do not "need" to post my personal opinions...
> > i just wanted to.
> >
> > i'll restrain myself in the future.
>
> I downloaded this back in 2009 and again in 2012 - The second being a
> better copy. It's a "disaster" scenario. My copies both have
> hard-encoded sub-titles, and they are at appropriate places. I'm too
> old to really care what happens to the world (no kids to "think
> about"), and have watched over the years as the peoples of the world
> shit where they live. As a kid, for example, my family had a house on
> and vacationed on Sanibel Island. It was a clean wonderland. No local
> TV stations, even. Few people (had to take a ferry to Sanibel way back
> then, and was before expressways in the US (early 1950's). It was a 3
> day drive just to get there and motels were hard to find. I don't have
> any pictures from the early days (my sister has our "family pictures).,
> but here's me in the later days
> https://elsmar.com/Forums/members/1-albums39-picture429.html These days
> - Red tide and all sorts of marine life choking the entire FL west
> coast for several hundred miles. I have had no use for Florida for
> years, really. A big, over crowded tourist trap and home for the aged.
>
> I agree that the film isn't based on sound scientific data and is akin
> to the movie about New York freezing over. I can't say it coukdn't
> happen, but then again it's not impossible I suppose.
>
> Luckily I traveled to a lot of places around the world in the 1950's
> (mostly with my parents) and 1960's, (some alone, such as Youth
> Hosteling around Europe on a bicycle, and some with my parents) so I
> got to see many countries in Europe (I remember one of the really nice
> hostels was in Copenhagen) and Africa at a time when the world was
> relatively safe and not over crowded. Even in the middle east I felt
> totlally safe. Here are a few pictures, mostly in Paris, France and a
> couple from Germany, circa 1965, I think
> https://elsmar.com/Forums/members/1-albums47.html
>
> As to just hearing about climate change - I remember as a kid my older
> brother had studied "ecology" and was explaining it to me - Predicted
> over population, human induced climate change and much more, sso I knew
> about the predictions back around 1960 or maybe a few years later. None
> of this is really new stuff. We just know one hell of a lot more these
> days.
>
> I expect to be dead within the next 10 years. I may life a bit longer,
> but I doubt it. No matter - I wish all the young folks the best, but
> it doesn't look good compared to the world I grew up in.
>
> NOTE: The 2 URLs will be gone soon due to a planned software change.
>
> Anyway, good luck, folks! It's a "brave new world" for the young...
>
> --> Thoughts from an aged hippy! Long retired and still tokin'
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Interesting post.
RIB.
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