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Originally Posted by Flyboy
What about Hurricane Katrina? Last year there was an unprecedented number of natural disasters which have been linked by a number of scientists to climate change.
Even if the ground opened up and the fires of hell shot out and enveloped an entire country, we'd probably just keep driving our SUVs saying "thank god it didn't happen to us." Throughout our entire lives we've been hammered over the head that bigger is better, and more is cheaper. Everywhere you go there are ads telling us to buy useless shit and what do we do? We buy it? Because we don't know anything else anymore. There's no such thing as spiritual enlightenment in the west anymore. Instead we seek to improve the quality of our lives through consumption.
All this to say that mother nature's 9/11 probably wouldn't be enough to open our eyes. Not unless someone could make some money off of it.
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I'm sorry to have to dissagree with you Flyboy but the hype usually doesn't work out with the facts.
Fact #1: Most folks do not reallize what the largest producer of greenhouse gasses, pollution, ozone depleting chemicals, and carbon monoxide isn't human beings but the Earth herself. The actual ejection of material from man is less than 1% of the total that comes from volcanic and storm activity.
Fact #2: The last few thousand years according to actual PHYSICAL evidence from ice core samples in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres shows that we have been in a much more stable in the last few hundred years. For instance, 5000 years ago the North American Plains went through a 1000 year drought, There weren't enough humans to cause it.
Also the core samples from the ice sheets show that during a warming trend that happens more regularly than people know since they do not live for several thousand years. Also it was found that when the Earth does warm up the melting ice sheets cool the oceans and regulate the temperature. This also proves that man is not as powerful as he wishes to be, a fact some find hard to believe.
Fact #3: America has more oil reserves than any other country. The Alaskan Oil Reserve and Gulf of Mexico Oil Reserve are as large as all the Middle Eastern Oil Deposits. Runnig out of oil in the next hundred years is not a problem, The need to find cleaner ways to produce energy is. (woops went into editorial mode)
Now for my editorial mode.
1: There is no way for the world to run out of resources.
2: Never trust scientists unless they can completely PROVE there work. I can theorize that the Universe is strapped to a hummingbirds ass but that doesn't make it true. The global Tempurature went down .7 degrees last summer,(fact) IT"S AN ICEAGE COMING!! (theory). Scientists get recognition and funding do to them getting published and recognized, and almost all media in the world revolves around bad news, therefore a person who sounds like they know what there saying starts screaming "The Sky is Falling" everyone looks up and says "I see a chunk right there!!" and catches bird poop in the face
