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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Da_bang80: [QB] I don't think Global Warming is the sole cause of the environmental troubles the planet now faces. Mankind has been producing Carbon Dioxide for thousands of years through wood/coal burning stoves and our own exhalations. Yes there are other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere but not at the levels that would affect the entire planet. Other chemical pollutants such as Chloroflourocarbons also contribute but are not classified as greenhouse gases. I'm no climatologist but the Earth goes through a warming/cooling cycle every few thousand years. Everybodies running around convinced that it's global warming when it may in fact be just a natural occurance that people really can't study all that well because the time scales are so different. The Earth has been in existence for over 4 billion years. We can't even begin to comprehend that kind of scale. The 80 or so years we're alloted is like a blink. Over almost before it begins in geological terms. And there's only so much we can learn from looking at rocks and fossils. I'm not so much worried that we'll destroy the planet. It's survived much worse than a bunch of polluting humans. I'm more worried about the human race surviving the planet. Let's say the Trans-Atlantic current collapses the day after tomarrow. and 20 years from now everything above the 49th parallel is under a kilometer of ice. Thats like 300 million (rough estimate) people displaced. where will they go? say in 40 years everything north of Texas is frozen solid. I can't even begin to guess how many people that is. Lets not forget the south pole either. It freezes too. So that leaves a stretch of habitable land at the equator. How are 6 billion people going to live like that? There will be wars over every conceivable thing. Land, Food, resources. We'll most likely destroy ourselves. Some day we may fuck up the planet enough that we as a species won't be able to survive. But that doesn't mean something won't survive and possible even thrive. And eventually the planet will adapt. I'm not a tree hugger but I think we as a race should take steps to insure that the planet remains habitable for us. It's the only one we've got. And we're not likely to find another one anytime soon. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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