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Aneirin -> RE: Climate change scientists call for food rationing to reduce carbon emissions By: malterwitty Tags: (2/19/2011 6:04:34 AM)
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda
Nobody questions whether humankind can adapt and survive as a species, and in fact nobody ever has. The only question is, at what cost?
Yes, what cost, that is, the question, now I suspect if we can carry on as normal i.e.our present lifestyles or better, people would be all ears, but, if it is the reverse of all that,and we had to quit or reduce the use of our current technology and privlidges, well, we can see the reticence, for many it seems will not accept any notion of going backwards.
Now, if the available climate data suggests the climate started to shift with the industrial revolution, that gives us a big hint as to what we were doing. So, what was before the industrial revolution, hmm, lack of heavy fossil fuel burning and people being less centralised, which could mean that the concentration of fossil fuel burning industry all in a small area, could have been the problem, nature could not cope. Also a thing that is common with heavy industrial areas, is the lack of green vegetitation, photosynthesis cleans the air.
But fossil fuels, what are they, the residue of things that have died millions of years ago, we are technically using death to fuel our life, but then, that is recycling, perhaps we will become the fuel of the far away future, if we don't become the food first.
Perhaps the real cause of all this, if a cause is sought, is human arrogance and greed, a notion that some have that the earth and nature were put here for our use and if it's there, take it, not just some of it, but all of it whether we need it or not. I believe some religious scripture actually promotes this, by interpreting ancient notions as to what the deity meant, nature and the earth were put here for the human to use ?
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