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Lula warning over no deal at Copenhagen

Not heard much about this Lula guy before, but I like his attitude.

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I don’t live in poverty, I got a little bit of money and I’ve got a healthy body. I’m not going to let stuff get me upset, and I won’t let all the little things get me depressed.

When I was a young boy I got a stereo and I taped all the songs straight off the radio. The sounds that the bands made, and the melodies is all I need to make me feel free.

Sometimes you get so low, you don’t know why, a little unsettled inside. May I remind you, that you don’t live in poverty, you got your youth, and you got a roof over your head.

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You’ll either make the choice yourself or the universe will make it for you. So there’s really nothing to worry about.

A lesson on how to debate in Internet forums

“This Monboit bloke is sounding more bonkers by the minute. “

To be fair, he quotes other sources.

So it’s like accusing him of being bonkers for believing what that dude Darwin wrote. Or that knob Newton. Or that ratfink Einstein.

You - and other randoms on the internets - need to find credible sources that prove who Monbiot quotes is wrong, is all.

As an example, if Monbiot writes something like this:

“Chris Hartnady, research and technical director of Cape Town earth sciences consultancy Umvoto Africa, has found that South Africa’s Witwatersrand goldfields are around 95% exhausted, and anticipates that production rates should fall permanently below 100 tonnes a year within the coming decade.”

You must first find proof that Chris Hartnady is wrong then politely point this out to Monbiot rather than calling him bonkers for quoting Hartnady to inform us, via Cif, that:

“Studies suggest South Africa’s Witwatersrand goldfields are around 95% exhausted”

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