02-12-2009, 07:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-12-2009, 07:36 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Sadly, the evidence is in - has long been in - the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere is the main culprit in climate change and the difference is from the release of CO2 in burning of fossil fuels by humans. It is not a natural cycle of the Earth [Gaia] nor the sun - although they do have cycles, they are known and this is not them. Sorry. Even if there were no anthropogenically warming and climate change [there is!], humans are on a dead-ahead course to destruction and taking most life on the Planet with it. Yes, other gasses than CO2 also cause climate change and warming, but while CO2 causes the least per molecule, it has the greatest effect due to the large amounts. Oddly enough the increase in meat eating worldwide causes the second largest assault - due to the farting of cows and the methane produced. Volcanic activity averages the same all the time [averaged over a few years]; human use of fossil fuels doesn't. The icecaps and glaciers are melting and we are the cause. We are also poisoning the planet, changing the water availability, taking away habitat, and totally out of balance. If all those alive now [and the population will go from the current 7 billion to somewhere between 10 and 14 billion soon] were to live at the U.S. level of consumption and waste/poison/CO2/etc production, we would currently need 5-6 Planets [soon to be 10-12]. The sustainable number of humans at an advanced level on this Planet is about 1-2 billion*, given current technology - IF all were aware and environmentally conscious. We are not. Seeing global warming as another secret government conspiracy is the new cause celeb for some. I see it as I do Wallstreet et al. paying both the Dems and Repubs - so they always have control. Big business, while against curbs on fossil fuel use [CO2 emissions] plays both sides and is behind [can prove it!] the stories [just like they did with tobacco et al.] that there is still some doubt and debate. That debate is over in my field. Now is time for action! It may already be too late. Technology will NOT save us, only a total change in values - back to learning we don't own and control Gaia, but are just one of billions of organisms and if we kill them/disturb them - we kill ourselves. 200 species per day! The coral will be all dead in about ten years. Fish are down by 70% in some large areas of the oceans! Ocean levels rising and the pH of the oceans; climate is changing fast; dioxin [the most lethal chemical we have yet invented] production at insane levels; poisons in your food, air, water, homes, personal products, clothes, furniture, etc. We [humans] are to blame for all above - and more.
*No, don't have to kill anyone; prevent anyone who wants a child to have one - there are ways to reduce the population without coercion [still - soon, not!]. In fact in W. Europe most countries are now loosing population by choice in numbers and timing of children. Do some evil Secret Govt. types want to kill many, yes; but this is not the agenda of the Environmental Activists - don't confound the two - or you are buying the confusion and bait and switch tricks they always pull - as they do about Dallas, 911, you name it....
*No, don't have to kill anyone; prevent anyone who wants a child to have one - there are ways to reduce the population without coercion [still - soon, not!]. In fact in W. Europe most countries are now loosing population by choice in numbers and timing of children. Do some evil Secret Govt. types want to kill many, yes; but this is not the agenda of the Environmental Activists - don't confound the two - or you are buying the confusion and bait and switch tricks they always pull - as they do about Dallas, 911, you name it....
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"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass