Okay, so I finally got around to watching that video, the that kinda confused me: is he a comedian or preacher or what? Or just some new form of edu-tainment? Anyway, I did agree with a lot of what he was saying. What I didn't agree with was his own self-righteous assumption that all environmentalist think the same, that we all want to "save the planet", as it were. Sure, on the surface that's the basic idea, but if you took anyone with a bit of brain in their head, and walked them through his ideas, they would agree, we're trying to save the planet so we can live on it. So we can survive. That's a pretty basic instinct to follow. What's the problem with that? The other thing I thought was a little silly, as I have thought it over quite considerably myself, was the relative time scale argument. Sure we've been here for a fraction of the Earth's existence, and only been using industrial process for an even tinier fraction. But isn't claiming we're having NO considerable effect just as ignorant and close minded as saying we're having a massive effect? (in a similar fashion to Atheism being just as flawed as religion). I did find the thing about plastic really funny though, good stuff
Global warming isn't 'the earth deciding to change'. It's completely fake. We're just going through a normal cycle...
I was rereading this thread and was wondering how the bolded part is going to happen? Got a link to an article or something?
Earth is always changing. It is always changing in varying degrees of change. You can't say global warming is fake though - it has happened naturally multiple times throughout the planet's history. The planet Earth will survive (like it has done many times before). But there will come a point when us humans are screwed and we will become extinct like 90% of all species that have ever existed on this planet. Sure we can make things cleaner and maybe prolong our existance for a little while, but ultimately we are doomed. And I am annoyed at all of these little campaigns and associations telling us to turn off our lights, turn the thermostat down a notch, wear warm clothes inside etc. Why are we being encouraged to live in the stone age? It's not like any of those examples are going to make a big difference anyway. Surely we should be more focused on developing better technology, which might allow us to live for maybe a couple more hours/days.
I'm not sure if we'll need that much more, but we'll definitely will need more. The world is growing exponentially. More people, still same amount of water.
