Why are you so concerned about the planet?
Yes, humans have most certainly contributed to countless atrocities against the natural world. Overpopulation, destruction of tropical and temperate forests and/or rainforests, smog, excessive greenhouse gasses, the Pacific garbage patch, animal extinctions, etc etc etc.
(The thing about greenhouse gasses, however….is that they’re produced naturally, both on Earth and on Venus! We may be adding to them, but they’d certainly be around. Life seemed to be just fine during the years of primordial Earth!)
BUT, we have to keep in mind that the ozone CAN repair itself. The problem is that we’re just ripping it apart too quickly. The whole stuff about the magnetic poles…well, they CONSTANTLY reverse themselves naturally over thousands of years.
The planet has warmed and cooled itself without human interference of any kind on several occasions.
Is it sad that the ice caps are melting? Yes. Is it sad that polar bears are being stranded? Yes. But frankly, dozens of seals die in the artic when ice freezes over and they have to create little niches of air for them to breathe until the ice thaws. That’s just natural. I’m sure those images of sad polar bears on floating ice caps is an occurrence that happened long before we began to turn an eye to global warming. I’ve even heard that polar bear numbers are increasing.
That being said, I’m definitely doing my best to aid conservation efforts. I don’t take this lightly, as I respect all life. But again…I think we need to be realistic.
We’re being short-sighted. Even with the mindset of reversing our mistakes. Polar bears are not going to exist forever, with or without our influence. The climate change isn’t necessarily bad for our planet…it’s bad for US. The natural world will just simply adjust to whatever happens. We’re the ones who get concerned.
Well, what if the planet really is dying, or will die?
Keep in mind that it has a lifespan of less than 5 billion years left. That’s because we have a middle-aged sun. That sun is likely going to expand and burn all life and atmosphere off of our planet…and whatever humans did to help or to harm the environment won’t change a damn thing.
So. I’m compassionate and definitely understand the importance of wildlife and environmental awareness and conservation….I just think that we blame ourselves too much.
What are your thoughts?
(This is put under society and culture because there’s a genuine ‘green’ revolution going on right now. It’s as much of a cultural issue as it is a geological one.)
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Why Are You So Concerned About The Planet?
Posted on January 19, 2011.
My thought is we should all care for our planet the risks are too big of course we should always prevent the unknown
I don’t, planet could blow up as soon as i die for all i care since i wont be alive to notice/tell that it has gone.
But people do anything nowadays to try and take the “moral high ground” over people so that they can look down on others and give out lectures on how much of a better person they are than you, guess it gives them a buzz or something.
-Also the chances of humanity still being around to see the end of the planet is extremely slim.
I don’t usually talk about this, since most people snap at me, as if ecology were the new religion or something.
I don’t deny our influence in some changes. Some bigger, some smaller. But I seriously doubt that we will have a real influence in the way the world turns out. Be it bad or good.
Whatever efforts we make, Earth is way too big to respond to our dirt/cleansing.
You can’t stop a tsunami, which wipes out vegetation and animals.
You can’t stop an earthquake, that also destroys much.
You can’t stop a volcano, which is certainly the most polluting power of all. Nothing burns as strongly and as toxic as a volcano…
We are so small in a vast Universe, bombarded by so many destructive elements every day. How can a colony of bacteria on a speck of dust even fathom that it would influence the actions of a whole desert?
I think this is just another “school of thought” aimed to give people meaning in their lives and, most importantly, to create new jobs, new products, etc. It’s good for economy.
Other than that – I think eco people are more preoccupied of having a nice back yard and a pretty city, with lots of trees, rather than “saving the world”. I’m not against it, but let’s be realistic – it’s not all that heroic…
I’m not concerned about the planet. If it wants to kill us all or make our lives a living hell, there is nothing we can do to stop it. Moreover, there is nothing we can do to make the planet kill us all; it is arrogant to think we can.
Boy do you rattle on;
what your not taking into account is that there have never been this many humans on the planet. This much pollution and industries, cars , airplanes, etc. Our foot print in conjunction with other natural contributions is leaving one hell of an impact. Mans impact is like mold growing on fruit, with the same results. Humans have been irrevocable irresponsible so far, and the planet absorbed our activities so far. Butt if the population keeps growing, fueled by careless use of the environment, what then ?
Where going in the correct direction as far as stewardship responsibility
There’s nowhere else to move to.
You seem to be trying to hang on the fence, and you can do that because you don’t have any idea of the numbers.
Yes, Nature makes greenhouse gases. But greenhouse gases have increased as much as 300% since the advent of Man. And it isn’t just Man, but his food sources, his method of agriculture, the means He uses to obtain drinking water for his teeming masses, and the things he does to the Earth’s surface to move His multi-ton personal jewelry around.
Yes, the Earth will die in 5 billion years. Just as we will die in so many decades, and the Universe in so many hundreds of billions of years. But do *our* lives not matter? Is there no chance we will populate the solar system, or figure out how to move to another Universe, if we are willing to take responsibility for what we do? It is the journey that is important…
There is no “yang” or “downside” to the argument. We are cooking our own goose. Nature is just doing what She must do.
Global warming is a scam.
I think the best way to understand this scam is to read Harold Lewis’ letter of resignation from the American Physical Society (APS). I quote from that letter here.
“It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist”
Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chairman of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)
Source(s):http://cbullitt.wordpress.com/2010/10/08