Yeah. Civilization as we know has about 15-20 years left. Oh, but let's spend all our time talking about made-up stuff like fiscal cliffs. We get what we deserve; too bad we are taking half the species of the planet with us.
More doomsday from Grist (I picked a bad day to give up antidepressants): 69 foot sea level rise predicted from just the carbon and methane we've already put in the air. I guess that sea wall needs to be raised just a smidge*.
@ 6 "I picked a bad day to give up antidepressants"—not sure if serious, but if so, did anyone warn you about the zaps?
For me, for the first few months, it felt like touching your tongue to a 9V battery, except on your brain, up to several times an hour. Annoying but tolerable when you know what they are and know that they will gradually diminish. But a hell of a lot of practitioners never mention them, either when you're starting or ending therapy. Be sure to quiz your doc and taper off slowly if possible.
@9: Horseshit. The root cause is the fact that the current neoliberal economic order systematically shields those responsible for environmental destruction and disenfranchises those most burdened. Look at the damage caused by mining in Montana: companies extract all the resource wealth, expatriate the profits overseas and then declare bankruptcy so that when their piles of toxic tailing are declared superfund sites, they cannot be held responsible. Or the new Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) currently being shepherded through congress behind closed doors, which would allow "investor-state" corporations to challenge via tribunal any domestic legislature which interferes with the "expectation of profit."
In terms of the net amount of atmospheric carbon, the vast majority has been contributed by the first world. And according to the World Bank, per capita we continue to release roughly 3x more carbon than China (17.2 vs. 5.8 metric tons)
No else cares, why should I?
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For me, for the first few months, it felt like touching your tongue to a 9V battery, except on your brain, up to several times an hour. Annoying but tolerable when you know what they are and know that they will gradually diminish. But a hell of a lot of practitioners never mention them, either when you're starting or ending therapy. Be sure to quiz your doc and taper off slowly if possible.
I can imagine the whole experience to be tough, even without side effects.