A truth is nothing more than a column of data which was removed from a research paper, leaving behind partial truth, or not the whole truth.

A series, discussion which only points out one man's research, without an equal but opposite presentation on the other side of the fence... is not a truth.

It's an a formulated opinion from the perspective of a single individual.

But it will never be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  Truth is like observations of a scientist.  An interesting premise and theory at best.  A fact at hopeful best.  A fact until a new theory comes along to smack the fact to teh backburners once again.

Truth then.  The world was flat.  Observational fact.

Truth in the middle.  The world is round.  HEY! This guy went around the world and came back to where he started from.

Truth now.  The world is really kinda eggish oblong.....measured scientifically of course by satelites, programmed by those faulty human beings we know so much about.

Truth is in the eye of the observer.

"The truth! You can't handle the truth!"

A good film, with many well-presented arguments, truths, and analysis of some of the possible implications of such truths.  Awake right wingers should find it useful, while left-wingers who still rest their faith in the academic and social services establishment might find it harder to swallow.  Of course, I would like to have honest, critical discussion of ideas presented in the film with anyone, left-leaning or right-leaning.

http://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/ … racy-video

A good film about peak oil, the economic collapse, the environment, our culture, and many other matters of concern.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yah_a6yz8FI

Truths, implications, ideas for solutions to systemic problems implied by truths.

http://www.tromsite.com/

Hmm, let me think here.

Who should build the stormsurge wall around Bangladesh?

The people who caused global warming and the sea-level rise that is ruining people's lives in Bangladesh.  Business imported poverty and exploitation into Bangladesh while calling it 'freedom', while simultaneously experiencing the benefits of such 'freedom': exported resources, goods, and profits for these people:

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Or should the victims pay for it - these people:
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Unfortunately, they are the ones who will pay for this:

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Because they are the ones who have already paid for this:

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Such projects represent the paradigm that creates the delusional, insane impression that the current rise in temperatures and sea levels is sustainable and therefore we can just continue what we're doing.  We'll just build storm surge walls everywhere.  Okay, then, well, how about instead of starting with London or New York, where you have people who benefit most by and primarily caused the problem, let's start with Bangladesh, for the people who didn't cause the problem. If we are capable of building storm surge walls everywhere, prove it; let's start a huge storm surge wall around the entire country of Bangladesh.

It's only the major cities, where population is most dense, and only in 'developed' countries that can afford such projects.  How can they, though?  What allows the 'developed' countries to continue its malpractices against the rest of the world?  The economic resources to maintain the developed world ability to build such projects and continue its malpractice against the world is a result of resource extraction (namely oil), goods, and services that have been extracted or produced primarily from such parts of the world such as Bangladesh where illegitimate legal systems and corruption provide for a context for business to operate more cheaply; where due to no or scant labor laws or human rights, businesses can exploit resources and labor; where wealth and power rests in the hands of an easily manipulable few; where such allows for destructive environmental practices to be ignored by local authorities, all of which results in actual diminished standards of living rather than increased standards of living as PROMISED them in the first place.

As a result of ecological destruction, and the rise of intensive agribusiness, we are seeing a mass migration of people from the now impoverished, exploited countryside where there is now no or little social services or economic opportunity.  Migrants end up in urban centers in slums where they are WORSE off rather than better.  Scarcity of jobs on farms back home is met with scarcity jobs as well as the unaffordability of living space, pollution, crime, etc., in the cities, all a result of the economic self-interest of these people:

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And you want the poor people in those countries to pay for their own storm surge walls?

They can't, because we stole all their money, all their resources, all their ability to do ANYTHING about global warming.

Think about it, what do you think happens when such places become untenable?  What happens to the few wealthy, powerful people in those countries by whose corruption the shareholders and general public of the developed world is able to extract their benefits?  What happens to those few wealthy, corrupt people who were permitted a small piece of the pie and are the ONLY ones with ANY sort of financial resources available to do anything about the nightmare that is caused?  What do you think they do when things become untenable?  They leave.

And where do you think they go with all their money?

You guessed it:

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It is insane!

New Yorker billionaires and construction workers should be building a storm surge wall around Bangladesh, AND New York, but Bangladesh FIRST. Instead, what is happening is New York imports Bangladeshi factory-owner (and all his money) where he gets a job as a construction worker on New York's storm surge wall project.  Meanwhile, millions of Bangladeshi factory and construction workers in Bangladesh lose their jobs because the factory owner had liquidized his assets and sold his factory to pay the New York lawyers off to get him a visa to the US.

These people in Bangladesh and other such countries that are experiencing the effects of global warming lose EVERYTHING, all due to the warming caused by the 'developed' world.

So build the storm surge wall around such places as Bangladesh first, then places like New York.