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What if what is wrong?What if it's wrong?
I realize temps are higher. The earth is getting warmer. It is in a cycle. That is what the earth does.
I am just not convinced that mankind is what is causing it
And what if you ARE right? What are you gonna do? Kill off mankind so you can save the planet? Save it for who?
And what if you ARE right? What are you gonna do? Kill off mankind so you can save the planet? Save it for who?
Killing off the human race is hardly the answer for how we can take better care of our world--is this your fear? That every environmentalist and pro-green person is actually a genocidal maniac? If so, you know how completely bonkers that comes across yes?
-CryptoLutheran
You are the guys who are saying we can't stop it. I'm just saying maybe we didn't even cause it in the first place.
And anyway I am saying I certainly don't want the Government to do it. Scariest words in the English language: "I am from the Government and I am here to help." Just like EPA helped to contaminate the Colorado River the other day. How bonkers is that for ya?
I think it's really at a point where it doesn't matter who or what caused it. The scientific community's consensus is that it's real and getting worse and since we have the capacity to manage it, we have the responsibility to do so.
The river spill was extremely disappointing to be sure. But we don't have to rely strictly on the government. There are countless things that individuals can do of their own free will.
My religion condemns it.Environmental issues may not be exactly a question of religion or faith - yet bizarrely enough, there are people out there who treat them as if they were. Bafflingly enough, conservative think tanks who feel that any change to the status quo would endanger their future profits have managed to convince a considerable portion of the population that it's all a big controversy, that the verdict is not yet in, and that those who'd call for an immediate response to these threats are loopy fanatics who don't know what's what.
And all the while, the rainforests keep on dwindling, the oceans are not only plagued by growing garbage patches but also subject to acidification, which may cause the entire marine ecosystem to collapse from the bottom up, species everywhere are disappearing at a rate that you'd otherwise associate with major natural catastrophes, our own species grows at an alarming rate, and we are using up natural resources at a pace that would require several planets at the same time to sustain.
The thing is: none of this is a controversy. The verdict of the scientific community (i.e. people who deal with these matters professionally and have all the data at hand) is virtually unanimous. To deny it and pretend that it's still nothing more than some wishy-washy hypothesis is the rough equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and going "LALALA!!! I CANNOT HEAR YOU!!"
So... how does your religion relate to the devastating effect our post-industrial species has on the planet, and what does it have to say about combating the mess we've created?
Sounds like suicidal ignorance to begin with.A lifeboat full of people each one has their seat, one of these people stands up and is about to drill a hole in the bottom of the boat.
They all protest, "You cannot do that , we will all drown"
" It,s my seat. I do what I like."
What is the root cause?
Sounds like suicidal ignorance to begin with.
They are in some sense, and they are not in another...Of course.
But what is the driving force that brings forth such actions?
No one is an Island unto themselves.
They are in some sense, and they are not in another...
Suicide is driven generally by fear and loathing.
Ignorance is a gift of birth.
Good morning!
They're gonna throw somebody overboard I just know it.
We've made selfishness a political ideology and the irony is that it has the support of the religious right.
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