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To: epicure who wrote (174816)	10/28/2011 7:32:12 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541348

I think it means we need to be careful about the future. And by that I mean the danger the right wing poses. As you know I am sure, both times that Germany rose to power and started WWI and II, very few people stood up against their crazy behavior. Einstein was almost alone both time in his protests. Only two professors at leipzig univesty stood with Einstein. And history blames the complacency of the people at the time. You know the old saying: "First they came…" is a famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. The text of the quotation is usually presented roughly as follows: First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

To: epicure who wrote (174816)	10/28/2011 8:07:46 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541348

I see I answered the wrong question. Sorry. If you were referring to climate change, we are boiling the planet. One o fth etheories about the mass extiction fo the Permian age is that when the climate rose about 5 degrees F, it started melting methane hydrates. Methane is 25 times the greenhouse gas as CO2. And the entire arctic has quadrillions of cubic feet of methane. What a few of us recently posted is that a scientific expedition has gone to the east arctic investigating a huge release of methane.