What's your stance on Global Climate change/warming?
De-Dee
2012/04/28 13:22:53
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So I am currently taking an Environmental Science course and Everyone in my class is so gloom and doom about global climate change/warming. My teacher gives an hour and half long lecture twice a week about how much humans suck and were such horrible creatures that are destroying the planet. Honestly, we can't seem to do anything! We invent the car. Excellent idea! NOT! the emissions are screwing up the environment. We invent ways to get rid of pest(pesticides, insecticides) that eat our crops or we want our crops to grow a little faster(fertilizer) Excellent Idea! NOT! Leads to water contamination and we shouldn't kill animals, they have right to eat to. Can't live in cities-smog and other pollution. Event the highway...do I even need to explain? Can't live in rural/surburban areas-you have to drive to get places,(car is bad!) and you are more likely to become obese(Oh obesity is such a big issue nowadays especially in America....We don't seem to pick on cigarette smokers much, though) . Figure out Electricity, but now were running out of fossil fuels and coal is bad for the environment. We try to help a little by recycling...and then we learn that some of the things we recycle either wind up right in a landfill like everything else of just get shipped to developing countries for them to "deal" with. Edit: Energy saving lightbulbs? No good! It has mercury vapor in them. Electric car? No good! Because of the materials they use for the battery.
What CAN we do??? Despite my little rant I'm not sure i really have a stance yet. So do you think it's Anthropogenic (due to human activity) Natural(it just a cycle. Think Ice age.)? or just a load of bologna?
What's your stance on global climate change?
What CAN we do??? Despite my little rant I'm not sure i really have a stance yet. So do you think it's Anthropogenic (due to human activity) Natural(it just a cycle. Think Ice age.)? or just a load of bologna?
What's your stance on global climate change?
However I think that we are the only animal on this planet capable of damaging it and we need to be careful what we're doing.
"The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!" ~George Carlin~
Global warming? I honestly think that notion is crap. Climate change is natural.
That's my stance. People are destroying each other, animals, and they destroy what they create because they suck.
co2 is life for plants and ultimatly you and me. they give off oxygen from that co2.
I read that a planet, can't remember which, venus? can't remember they said this planets atmosphere is 90 percent co2 and is only slightly warmer then our planet. I will have to look that up again.
rose