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Posted by James on 12:36:55 06/28/09
In Reply to: Re: Save the planet? Right... posted by observer
: : Don't worry about it. Our little planet will be around long after humans are gone.
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: Maybe yes, maybe no. What happens after humans are gone is not knowable in any human terms.
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: What IS knowable is that we have a choice. We can choose to live in such a way as to encourage conditions for life, human and otherwise, or we can choose to live in ways that diminish the potential for life as we know it. Which do you think is the more responsible choice?
Ahh, well, now that is philosophy. If that future cannot be foretold, then all these environmental laws we are trying to make are pointless.
Perhaps it's a matter of semantics. When people say "Save the planet" they are referring to keeping our climatic current environment pretty much as it is (not withstanding the fact that our current climate is not special, or "balanced" or in any way particularly "harmonius".
What I was saying is that this big rocky body we call Earth will not suffer in any major way from the machinations of men. We might disturb the surface scum a little but the rest of the planet will hardly notice. Mankind can not produce enough energy to "destroy the planet" Never.
Take all the nukes we have and set them off at once and the old globe might twitch, then keep on spinning. Knock Earth out of orbit you say? Ha! Do the arithmetic and you'll see why that is impossible.
I believe in protecting our environment but I don't believe global warming has much to do with mankind.
As for being "responsible", by whose standards to you define "responsible"?
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