11 hours ago
Douglas is probably heavily invested in the stock market and not getting the returns he expected, hence the criticism.
It's a dog eat dog world when all you're doing is scrabbling for money.
I thought we were supposed to be turning consumption of fossil fuels down and settling back into a more graceful lifestyle to try to combat global warming.
The other alternative is they know it's too late for that and they're all (Peter Thiel etc) going for broke and setting up hidey holes before the rot really sets in with a buffer zone of ordinary NZ'ers to tend to their needs into the future.
It's a dog eat dog world when all you're doing is scrabbling for money.
I thought we were supposed to be turning consumption of fossil fuels down and settling back into a more graceful lifestyle to try to combat global warming.
The other alternative is they know it's too late for that and they're all (Peter Thiel etc) going for broke and setting up hidey holes before the rot really sets in with a buffer zone of ordinary NZ'ers to tend to their needs into the future.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche