Ted Turner on global warming

eelgrass · Apr 2, 2008

Ted Turner on what will happen if global warming is not addressed immediately:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-...urgents-patriots-inaction-warming-cannibalism

TED TURNER: "Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state -- like Somalia or Sudan -- and living conditions will be intolerable. The droughts will be so bad there'll be no more corn grown. Not doing it is suicide."

Man, If I had known it was this serious I never would have made fun of it!

Eel

RELH · Apr 2, 2008

Heck! what do you expect from a far left bent wrist liberal that was stupid enought to marry "Hanoi Jane". He and Gore are so close that if Gore turned left, Turner's nose would be broken from having it stuck where the sun does not shine.

RELH

huntindude · Apr 2, 2008

Nobody with as much money as Turner is stupid.

nickman · Apr 2, 2008

Well.......I must agree with Dude on this....So how about; "Turners poor judgements are the antithesis of his good ones"

RELH · Apr 2, 2008

Dude;
George Bush is wealthy, does that mean he is not stupid either?

RELH

3blade · Apr 2, 2008

>Dude;
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huntsonora · Apr 3, 2008

Ted Turner: Global warming could lead to cannibalism

Billionaire environmentalist says world has too many people

By MIKE MORRIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 04/03/08

Failure to address global warming will have us all dead or eating each other by mid-century.

So says Ted Turner, the restaurateur, environmentalist and former media mogul whose controversial comments have earned him the nickname "Mouth of the South."

If steps aren't taken to stem global warming, "We'll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow," Turner said during a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with PBS's Charlie Rose that aired Tuesday.

"Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals," said Turner, 69. "Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state ? like Somalia or Sudan ? and living conditions will be intolerable."

One way to combat global warming, Turner said, is to stabilize the population.

"We're too many people; that's why we have global warming," he said. "Too many people are using too much stuff."

Turner suggested that "on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one or two children is it."

Admitting that he's "always suffered from foot-in-the-mouth disease," Turner added, "I've gotten a lot better, though. It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid."

Turner went on to say that military budgets need to be cut "way back."

"Right now, the U.S. is spending $500 billion a year on the military, which is more than all 190 countries in the world put together," he said.

"The two countries that the military industrial complex and some of our politicians would like to demonize and make enemies are Russia and China," Turner said. "China just wants to sell us shoes. They're not building landing craft to attack the United States, and Russia wants to be our friends, too."

He said that despite the United States' huge military budget, "we can't win in Iraq."

"We're being beaten by insurgents who don't even have any tanks, they don't have a headquarters, they don't have a Pentagon, we don't even know if they have any generals," Turner told Rose.

Turner called the Iraqi insurgents "patriots" who "don't like us because we invaded their country and occupied it. Nobody likes to be invaded."

The CNN founder also said he thinks his old network has veered too far away from serious news, instead favoring lighter stories delivered by attractive female "chickies" and opinion-based news such as Lou Dobbs' show.

RELH · Apr 3, 2008

And there folks you have Dude's idea of intelligence.

RELH

d13r · Apr 3, 2008

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LMAO...

JB

wetmule · Apr 3, 2008

I agree with Ted on one thing the planet has too many people, I reccomend we Neuter all liberals.

kilbuc · Apr 3, 2008

"the rest of us will become cannibals".......taste like chicken,
LOL.

from the "Heartland of Wyoming"

overton · Apr 3, 2008

>>And there folks you have Dude's
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Ransom

AspenAdventures · Apr 4, 2008

Money makes you smart? Pres Bush must be brilliant! And Cheney must be off the charts!!

Dud, with comments like that it is obvious that you don't have any money!

"One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

AspenAdventures · Apr 4, 2008

Liberals neuter themselves with abortion in the rich whites and AIDS in the black population. And those darn Mormon Republicans just keep having 20 kids each. Guess what the population will look like when all the baby boomers pass on from the hippie generation? All Republican Mormons! The math don't lie!

"One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."