Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 19, 2023

And who cares about the debt ceiling in an unlivable world?

This is one of those strips that feels like a “copy and paste” job, like some Doonesbury strips. Just put whatever you want in the speech balloons.

sad commentary today…

Remember the little things

Sequence and timing matter. I’m not going to live to see Florida underwater, but my grandkids might.

I suspect the people who control the democracy know global warming threat is only a tool to manipulate voters and suppress economic growth for the majority of people. If they really believed it was an actual threat, why would Obama own Ocean front homes? Why would Kerry fly in exhaust-belching aircraft? They know fear is a lever to control the gullible.

Step one: Have a functioning democracy. Step two: vote to save the planet.

Where do they live? America has always been a Democratic Republic, not a Democracy.

Small comfort, Pig.

The past is prologue

There’s a worrying conflation of global and domestic issues here.

I imagine quite a few people in various countries who feel their government is going reasonably well might be a bit discomfited.

It’s no longer “Global Warming”, now the buzz word is “Climate Change”!

Do we even need a president at all??

I feel better already, Pig!

Without the ice age, we wouldn’t have to worry about global warming. And without global warming, we wouldn’t have to worry about a new ice age that will arrive in something like ten thousand years, due to global warming. And, before you shout about it, that your science does not support this, and none of your official doctrine says this, examine why that might be.

The God of small things

Democratic Republic

It’s possible to walk and chew gum at the same time.

@GeorgeInAZ https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2023/05/19?ct=v&cti=1526388

Where I’m going it’s hotter than heck, but the guy with the horns and trident is replaced every once in a while

We do not have a democracy, we have a Republic, and as Ben Franklin said…, “if we can keep it”. We’re very definitely not keeping it. A Republic depends on mature, informed citizen voters. We send people like aoc to congress and elect senile 80-year old’s to the Presidency.

I agree that a healthy bit of skepticism is necessary, particularly where it pertains to government. However, on the topic of climate change, the amount of evidence, both from the science and from our own eyes, seems very compelling. I would assert that a version of Pascal’s Wager would be a good approach to take and assume that it is real.

GeorgeInAZ is correct. His MAGA logic is impeccable. Climate change is a hoax. Trump said so. The bizarre weather events events that have been predicted for years are happening, but they are happening 30-50 years sooner than originally predicted, which proves science is wrong. The GOP is banking on making bank now, portfolio over planet.

Sometimes I think similarly; I am almost 63 so maybe 20 years left. No kids or grandkids. Why do I continue to get myself worked up over politics, climate change, etc. ? Maybe would be better to say EF it and try to be more blissful.

No true scientist has ever stated the science is settled! The true scientist’s motto is “Always question!”

One of the first “if we don’t stop doing this we’re all going to die” warnings was printed in 1913. We now have over a century of “climate disasters caused by man” as failed predictions. Thinking people do realize Einstein was correct, doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting a different result is a sign of insanity. Climate change is seasonal, it is not caused by human activity. It never has been, as the past century of long-passed deadlines proves. Let’s see the temperature rise an average of 10 degrees above average, then you may have something.

Don’t be foolish, It does matter

What if global warming doesn’t make the planet unlivable?

Dood. That right there is some Alex-Jones-level paranoid right-wing fantasy.

We’ll build a fire an’light a match and watch the whole thing burn

We’ll sweep out the ashes as this old world turns

In the mornin we’ll be done nothin left

But in the mean time just pour the gasoline -A3

Thanks for opening the floodgates for stupid, Stephan!

Even the Euro nations are starting to see that it is B/S.

At least we don’t get sent to prison for 15 years for calling a war a war.

Can we direct all the natural disasters to Florida only?That’s where the two biggest problems are

There were probably a lot of Ice Age deniers, too. BTW: Back in the mid 70’s, we were told the Earth was headed in TO another Ice Age! They used a scientific model to forecast this.

The negative slope of our graph is right on schedule.

It will eventually kill off the human race

OOOOOOR we can FIX our dying democracy so climate change DOESN’T doom us! I’m feeling hopeful as the two ANTI-democracy front-runners are criminal CLOWNS with less than 30% support! I wonder what goofy shenanigans those two buffoons have caused today . . .

Nice try, if they “control” democracy then it isn’t, get it? Enjoy the many distractions being rolled out to avoid taking any action on reducing fossil fuels use. 420ppm CO2 and still rising.

Unless there’s the Yellowstone Super Volcano, or another asteroid strike, the human race will survive. Trust me, I’m an anthropologist.

A half dozen years ago, we spent a half day on a catamaran cruising Prince William Sound. The captain, who’d lived in Alaska all his life, said that cleaning up the Valdez oil spill was still going on. He pointed out green mountain after green mountain between the glaciers and the higher snow-covered ones—and there was one that was gray and bare facing the water. It had lost its glacier the year before. He said it takes two years between when the glacier that’s been there for thousands of years is gone and when the face of the mountain is covered in lush green—and that there’s so much precipitation there that it is a rainforest, just most of it comes as snow in the winter. But the glaciers were narrowing, retreating, and some were simply gone. He pulled the boat up to one that was calving and all the broken bits of ice, the little icebergs were still called icebergs at that size, they were all around us, beautiful and sparkly and should still be up on that hill. He wanted those of us who lived in the Lower 48 to know that global warming is real, that they’re living it and witnessing it, and that it is changing everything.

We are not amused. No comment.

Way way to close to truth to be funny

Some of them were angryAt the way the earth was abusedBy the men who learned how to forge her beauty into powerAnd they struggled to protect her from themOnly to be confusedBy the magnitude of her fury in the final hourAnd when the sand was gone and the time arrivedIn the naked dawn only a few survivedAnd in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so hugeBelieved that they were meant to live after the deluge

Let the music keep our spirits highLet the buildings keep our children dryLet creation reveal it’s secrets by and by, by and byWhen the light that’s lost within us reaches the sky

—Jackson Browne “Before the Deluge”

Silly people! An asteroid, super volcano or a solar flare will kill us all way before climate change!

Wow,….. if only Pastis would get paid for the replies.

(He could buy Florida after THIS thread).

Who was the ancient Greek who used to carry a lantern around in broad daylight, saying he was searching for an honest man? Ah, the wisdom of Pig, the sweetest-natured cynic in the history of living creatures. Viva el puerco!

We should do our best while we can.

We do NOT live in a Democracy, but in a Representative Republic

And exactly how much energy does it take to make these rechargeable batteries.

Pig, you are weird! Besides, you will probably not be around long enough to be seriously affected by any change….

The Durham report proves our Democracy is broken. The Democrats and their media propagandists gutted it like a fish

It matters to all the functioning democracies, Pig.

This whole discussion makes me wonder about the mentality of climate deniers – its like they are some kind of sheep or something, just following along with their leaders “baaa baaa no such thing as global warming baaaaaa” when there is literally NOTHING in it for them. The only ones getting anything out of it are their elitist leaders – are these people happy to march to their doom like lemmings just so they dont have to do things like “think for themselves” or “process information”? I could see if they were making bank of this or something, but to just go along with the crowd rather than turn their brains on? For no return at all? Strange. Just …. strange.