SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the very-cool-when-he's-hot-under-the-collar dept.
The Center for American Progress reports:
Obama is famously low key. That's why on the hit Comedy Central show "Key & Peele", Keegan-Michael Key plays "Luther, President Obama's anger translator". The [annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner], however, is a rare place where the President can cut loose--as long as he uses humor.
In a hilarious admission that he has been too low key to convey the moral outrage justified by humanity's myopic march toward self-destruction--and by the brazen denial of climate science by many conservatives--Obama brought out "Luther" to express that outrage. And then, in an ingenious twist, Obama became so outraged that he didn't need Luther and in fact Luther himself couldn't take the genuinely angry Obama, who says of denial, "What kind of stupid, shortsighted, irresponsible, bull-"
Here's a video of the event.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 28 2015, @02:27PM
Overpopulation is always corrected by nature, there is no getting around that fact.
As GreatAuntAnesthesia already noted, humanity has gotten around that "fact" for centuries. And now we're close to a stage where we can not only do global-scale terraforming (here, defined as transforming land or ocean into something more conducive to human use), but change the human body (and other organisms) in ways that aren't available to current nature and go places in space where nature as you know it has never existed. For example, how many people can Earth support, if we can survive solely off of direct sunlight and a small amount of replacement mass? How many people can we support if we're colonizing the entire Solar System? Overpopulation has a completely different meaning when you can engineering people to consume far less and create new places to live far from Earth.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by nukkel on Tuesday April 28 2015, @06:48PM
Why don't we start with colonizing the ocean floor, before heading off to space.
If you think humanity is ready for the latter, the former should be a piece of cake, right?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday April 29 2015, @04:13AM
Why don't we start with colonizing the ocean floor, before heading off to space.
Ocean floor doesn't get 1300 watts per square meter.