# A Suggestion for a New Forum. (local sustainability)

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**Created:** [June 17, 2010, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-suggestion-for-a-new-forum-local-sustainability/543535 "2010-06-17T12:23:44Z")
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### Author: ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-suggestion-for-a-new-forum-local-sustainability/543535/14 "2010-06-18T12:31:08Z")

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> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
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> … Heck, the first step towards your goal would be to get people to acknowledge that the problem exists.

Quite so. On the Dope, a real hurdle.

Most folks here still believe that there are political and technological answers to the future _inevitable_ rise in oil prices. There’s your pony.

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> Then you’d need debate and politics about the level, if any, at which it exists.

Precisely what the proposed forum would be free of.

Teaching a pig to dance is a waste of your time and it irritates the pig, as my daddy used to say. And I am not sure that in this case I am not the pig.

Thanks for your time and comments.

Let me echo my OP and say that this past year on the Dope has been very educational. It has certainly turned me into a competent web researcher and, over time, taught me to temper my words in discourse.

I certainly get your points about the lack of an upside for the Dope to host this forum and will go so far as to say it was ill-considered on my part. It’s off to IMHO sometime soon, maybe.

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