Exeter Beyond the Car
June 23rd, 2008
posted by Cptn
If yesterday’s cycling fun in Exeter is to make more a lasting impression (saddle soreness notwithstanding), then it might be advisable for all those peddle pushers to freewheel it to the Exeter Beyond the Car talk by Peter Lipman, organised by Low Carbon Exeter, which takes place at the Music Room, Exeter Central Library, on Wednesday July 2 at 7pm.
“Peter Lipman,” says the press release, “works on practical projects dealing with sustainable transport at Sustrans and is also chair of trustees of the Centre for Sustainable Energy and the Transition Network.”
And if the 350 people who attended the Cycle Sunday event at Exeter’s Flowerpot playing fields is anything to go on, there should be support for at least one non-motorised form of transport.
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1. Kevin | June 23rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
I’ve recently been doing some research into opposition to environmentalism. The following are real quotes from Americans about the state of the planet and whether we ought to be doing something about it. It’s worth pointing out that I don’t agree with the authors of these - often jaw-dropping - views:
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The ecological shape the world is in is proof that the prophecies in the Bible are real.
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What if this is God’s way to make it better for us during these troubling times? With the ice melting in the North, it opens up vast amounts of oil that can be used to warm MILLIONS of people! What about the northern parts of America getting warmer? They will be able to harvest far more crops, and to plant crops that they were unable to do so before which will feed even MORE people.
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You see, God is in control. He knows the future and He knows what we are going to need to survive. So please do not fall for the man-made global warming worship trap. Yes we should pick up after ourselves, and we should care for our planet… but not at the cost of human lives. Humans are far more important then a dolphin in the sea, or a polar bear having fun on a floating iceberg.
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If we try to ‘fix’ the climate, we will only end up destroying it.
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World hunger is because of lack of belief in Christ and proof that Christs word is correct.
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Christianity is not here to prevent world hunger. It is to teach us to be happy hungry . persecuted or in any circumstance.
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Oil being fluid makes it more likely to have been made quickly like in a juicer because of analagy to other elements in nature.
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last night they also had a program on by Al Gore…..stating that all these weather changes is just global warming and has nothing to do with as he quoted it “the book of Revelations.” This supposedly highly educated man doesn’t even know it’s the BOOK OF REVELATION!!!!!!! Oh I’m so angry I could scream!!!!
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I think the idea that coal and oil formed gradually is without any support whatsoever … Totally implausible to me. I think it is much more likely that it was all formed in a single catastrophe … The Global Flood.
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The earth’s core MAKES oil, we are not going to run out.
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The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man’s dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it’s yours. That’s our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars — that’s the Biblical view.
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