Posted on 03/30/2005 9:26:37 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Yep.
....AND LONG TERM BREATHING LEADS TO EVENTUAL DEATH!!!
They must be slipping a little it took quite a while for them to get around to calling for economic sacrifice,aka takes,or the equivalent.Gee I wonder what country they think should pay the most.
Hogwash.
These studies never compare a control sample of what the earth would be like if humans never existed. Further, the history of the planet has one sure consistency, the climate is always changing, even before we evil humans existed. It is proven that humans contribute only a fraction of the polutants that are claimed to have an adverse affect of greenhouse gasses (that is unless you consider our exhaled breath). Volcanoes firing millions of tons of acidic gasses into our atmosphere are some of the largest contributors. Finally, we (humans) are part of the earth and its evolution. We exist, therefore we are. In time, the earth will be rid of our race and another will come after us. Humans however have the unique ability to ADAPT to our environmnet.
Anyway, this article is good because it proves that we can quit worrying about it because we can't do anything about it anyway.
Someday
We are all going to die.
Film at 11.
The enviros have put out so many doom and woe pieces that they have lost whatever credibility they might have had. Its sad, really.
Beat me by 5 seconds.
5 lovely seconds
It's hard to imagine that there are that many idiot savants in the world. Let me rephrase that: ... that many fools educated way beyond their intelligence. The bright spot in this story is that the number represents only 0.000022% of humanity, an encouragingly small number.
The desertification of the Sahara began eons before puny humans could have any effect on the process; the ice ages have come and gone, oblivious to all but their natural rhythms. The oceans overwhelm human wish or criticisms.
The most obscene quality of this constant handwringing is that the inevitable conclusion is that humanity will have to cull itself sooner or later, but these same geniuses do everything possible, constantly to frustrate the limitless mind of man to prepare and compensate for the growth of the planet; in every way imagineable.
Another unspoken statement is who shall do the culling? the choosing in that dim distant future where somebody's got to go, for the benefit of all. Random lot? Kill the productive first? The imaginative? The leaders? The loudest? The meekest?
I will be the lone voice here.
I agree that natural resouces are being used up way too fast. A very good friend has a fleet of fishing vessels in Alaska and his catches are way down due to overharvesting. He said the fish are not dying they are just being eaten faster than they can reproduce. He would like to see a limit put on fishing for some years to let the fish reproduce back up into larger numbers. BTW this guy is a very strong republican and is not an envirinmental lib.
If natural resources are limitless and not a worry why is china making sweetheart deals with every country in the world making them first in line and in effect booting the US to the back of the line???
I think some resouces are o.k. like petro, and lumber which can be regrown.
You all look at the US which replants it's cut down trees because we are thinking ahead. However the 3rd world countries are not replanting-just using up.
I also know a guy who goes to brazil every 4-5 years to fish. He said all you see is fires everywhere because people are burning back the rain forest. I don't have a problem with this but they are not replanting any trees like we do in the US and are not addressing the problems they are causing. He fishes in tributaries on the amazon. He said the water is the consistency of mud in many areas and all the fish are dying. The water is muddy from all the erosion etc. Again I don't have a problem with development but these people need to control erosion like we do in the US.
What I'm trying to say is if you have development you need to have counter measures to make up for the areas developed. These 3rd worlders don't care about tomorrow though or are not smart enough to realize what they are doing.
For more twaddle along this line, there's a good `The Sky Is Falling' article in this months Rolling Stone. I don't subscribe, they just send it. (Can't give it away?)
In RS's letters to the Editor, readers wax and wane over the psychotic, drug-addled suicide, Hunter Thompson, with liberal profanity. And there's a garbage article--also sprinkled with filth--on the Jackson trial that illustrates the disdain held by those cool-cats/hipsters for the American public.
All I can say is, Viva Free Republic.
Lunch over, back on the treadmill.
Fire that stupid accountant. He is inept, ignorant and hasn't a clue.
Even if he means well.
If we can only shut down "foundation" which give him the research grants. That means that we have to go after limousine liberals.:)
Are nations sovereign? or not?
Careful here.
Would you want the U.N. making "final judgements"?
If they really cared, they'd have killed themselves to save the planet.
Quote: You neglected to acknowlege two things: How is the Amazon thing any busines of ours (the U.S.)? How are we to blame for that?
I agree 100%, It is non of our business and we are not to blame.
The point I'm making is the 3rd world countries are using and not replenishing anything and have no safeguards in place to stabilize the side effects of development such as erosion . We look at what is happening in the US(tree replanting, reclaiming dtrip mined land etc) and most don't realize the rest of the world does not operate in the same way. 3rd world countries have turds floating down their streams and then bath/drink in the water.
I had some of my land timbered 10 years ago. I made sure the logging companies did their best not to runover the smaller trees and planted trees to make up for the ones cut down. I plan on harvesting the trees that are ready again in 15-20 years (part of my retirement). In most 3rd world countries the trees they did not use for logs would have been cut for firewood.
I'm gonna party like it's 1999.
um...
2099.
2199?
This will be used to halt US drilling for oil in Alaska.
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