11-13-2008, 02:54 AM
In a dualistic world there must be contrarians. Thank you, esnap, for being the resident contrarian.
Although my understanding of the situation is, in part, based upon investigations into CO2 levels contained in ancient ice cores--who knows for *absolute* certain? And what does it matter in the long run? Two things: we are running out of oil which poses a huge problem since the wealth of our nation and our future economic growth, lifestyle, et al are based upon black gold--a substance which contains incredible energy reserves plus a phenomenal amount of the products we use are made from it to boot, and, no matter what the cause, a heated up earth will very likely mean the demise of most of the human and other life on earth.
There's an interesting website, www.dieoff.org It has a massive amount of links to literature about peak oil, climate change, carrying capacity of the earth and rising population. It's better than a horror movie.
april
Although my understanding of the situation is, in part, based upon investigations into CO2 levels contained in ancient ice cores--who knows for *absolute* certain? And what does it matter in the long run? Two things: we are running out of oil which poses a huge problem since the wealth of our nation and our future economic growth, lifestyle, et al are based upon black gold--a substance which contains incredible energy reserves plus a phenomenal amount of the products we use are made from it to boot, and, no matter what the cause, a heated up earth will very likely mean the demise of most of the human and other life on earth.
There's an interesting website, www.dieoff.org It has a massive amount of links to literature about peak oil, climate change, carrying capacity of the earth and rising population. It's better than a horror movie.
april
april