Griswold
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ORIGINAL: onmykneesforhim
Hi,
Im in Baltimore, near the harbour. I have actaully seen the effects of global warming yesturday and unit this incident, I had never thought much about it.is very scarey. There ws a stentch in the air from so many dead fish. The patrols were scooping them out by the bucket fulls. One of my friends had tryed to explain the one degree rise that made the algea grow at an excelerated rate.
Anyway, I had never really thought *it* was a real threat, until I saw for my self.
Its really something that cant be stopped, is it?
omk
I remember the first time I heard (in church) that God created the Heavens and the Earth in a snap of his fingers (on a Monday, as I recall), and 7 days later he rested.
I remember in the 60's and 70's all this debate about how that (God/finger snap) and The Big Bang theory about how it was all this really big fucking explosion which, out of nothing, created everything.
It always kind of sounded like a Godly snap of ones fingers to me.
Either way, it happened in an instant...and everything...came from nothing.
Today they call the extension of that whole thing (the human/plant/animal part) "Intelligent Design".
Earth has gone through all kinds of waxes and wanes throughout eternity, hot cycles, cool cycles, rainy, dry, windy, less so and on and on and on.
The argument commonly posed about global warming is "it's just the normal wax and wane of the planet" or it's "impossible for something as large and homogeneous as the Earth to be affected by something as gnat like compared to the whole of it all as Humans".
Indeed, we produced more carbon, not only per captia, but in fact between 1885 and 1945 than we have since....so how come we didn't heat up then...and why aren't we cooling down now?
Well...it's collective, like a garbage dump that's finally reached it's maximum as to capacity, and likely, had we not been so profligate then, we'd be dealing with this 40 years from now, when we'd have likely solved it.
And we will. The alternative is not at all workable.
The Earth is very likely in one of those waxes (or wanes), and we added to it. Had we not been into burning massive amounts of coal in the 1700's through to today, had we remained a simple agrarian society as we may have been up through the 1200's it's likely we'd have put this all off until the year 2387.
It's really a moot point whether or not humans caused, contributed to or are simply participants of global warming, and much like the God debate, it's really immaterial whether God snapped his fingers, or this whole thing called The Universe was just literally, all by itself, with no help whatsoever by a named deity, ready to snap it's (figurative) fingers.
The fact is, no group of animals or race on this hyar planet of ours has (that anyone has any knowledge of anyway) had the previous capacity to "work around" this issue, either by stopping those things that contribute to it, or building greenhouses the size of Nebraska to grow food on the natural assumption that sections of our planet that will either be too cold or too hot to grow food...will be needed to grow food.
We're the first that can actually "solve" this problem.
No matter what happens, we either need to stop doing things that contribute to the problem, or we need to start obviating those things that will be the inevitable result of same.
In either case...we will.
< Message edited by Griswold -- 6/10/2007 5:01:02 PM >
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