Irreversible climate damage is imminent

[Bloodhammer]

I don't care.

 

[Rage1331]

Global warming ain't the problem.

It's our planet's ability to sustain us....that's the key issue.

Frankly, it can't. We're already in 'overshoot'.

Humans are too competitive and greedy and we teach our kids the wrong values.

Change? It will never happen. The human race is doomed. Even while the warning signals are really quite obvious, our reliance on the planet's finite resources and our waste output has increased ridiculously.

You don't even have to believe the scientific data or the lies they feed us on television.

Breathe the air. Count the cars on the roads. Visit a waste dump.

Even drink the water.

We'll continue to ruin this planet until the last one of us is extinct.

Yup.

What [DEL]will happen[/DEL] is happening is more like "irreversible damage to the human race". We'll be gone, and the Earth will still be here. Kicked off like a bad cold.

 

[DaDrew2112]

I think 7 billion people are too many humans....

 

[Spaldo]

...as Bill Hicks once said, "we're a virus with shoes, that's all."

 

[kserg]

Flag on play.

I thought this thread (and the forum) was to discuss the issue at hand, not slag belief systems and groups of people.

You misunderstood. I am not disrespecting any belief. I am just saying, when we as humans can't explain something, we tent to explain it by attaching any part of our lives as a contributor.

In 1800's, religion was popular. So anything that we could not explain we would attach it to religion.

in 1900's and 2000's, technology is popular, so anything we can't explain we attach to technology.

Kind of like scapegoat for something we do not understand.

 

[NWB]

Our extremist news media is trying to scare us with made-up reports about a major drought in Texas (2011), record heat in Russia (2010), wildfires/floods in Australia (2009/2010), floods on the Mississippi (2010), hurricanes, etc.

I'm sick of the constant lies about these extreme weather events...

 

[MatticusMania]

They say it was a great flood, perhaps caused by the moving of our Earth's poles, that wiped out the ancient civilizations that existed before the Sumerian Empire and wiped out Atlantis & Lemuria.

 

[NWB]

They say it was a great flood, perhaps caused by the moving of our Earth's poles, that wiped out the ancient civilizations that existed before the Sumerian Empire and wiped out Atlantis & Lemuria.

That sounds like something our news media would make up too.

 

[MatticusMania]

Thats more likely something our news media, and historical record, would vehemently deny.

 

[NWB]

They say it was a great flood, perhaps caused by the moving of our Earth's poles, that wiped out the ancient civilizations that existed before the Sumerian Empire and wiped out Atlantis & Lemuria.

OK then, I'll bite.

Who are they?

And what evidence has been presented?

 

[MatticusMania]

There is quite a lot, actually. So much so that I couldnt even begin to explain here. If youre interested, theres a lot of good literature on the subject out there.

They are the historians who study ancient civilizations. Theres a lot to know, but it is widely believed that there were civilized, settled, peoples all around the globe prior to cataclysmic events that wiped many of them out between 15,000 and 10,000bc. They claim that the Sumerians were not the first to settle, but were rather the reemerging of those that survived the deluge.

 

[Batmensch]

Our extremist news media is trying to scare us with made-up reports about a major drought in Texas (2011), record heat in Russia (2010), wildfires/floods in Australia (2009/2010), floods on the Mississippi (2010), hurricanes, etc.

I'm sick of the constant lies about these extreme weather events...

In one of your other posts you asked for evidence. Wheres's yours that these are all lies?

 

[NWB]

In one of your other posts you asked for evidence. Wheres's yours that these are all lies?

Personal observation for one thing.

You see, I live near Seattle, WA and we haven't had any of these extreme weather/climate events, so therefore they couldn't have happened. I mean, if the Mississippi really did flood like the news reported, you'd think I would have seen that...

 

[Bloodhammer]

Lmao!

 

[NWB]

There is quite a lot, actually. So much so that I couldnt even begin to explain here. If youre interested, theres a lot of good literature on the subject out there.

They are the historians who study ancient civilizations. Theres a lot to know, but it is widely believed that there were civilized, settled, peoples all around the globe prior to cataclysmic events that wiped many of them out between 15,000 and 10,000bc. They claim that the Sumerians were not the first to settle, but were rather the reemerging of those that survived the deluge.

Eh, where did all this water come from?

Was there more water on the earth at that time?

If so, then where did it all go afterward?

 

[MatticusMania]

Well, long ago the geography of our planet was much different. We've gone through an Ice Age since, and then entered a much warmer period. Melting ice from the poles would have to go somewhere, and caused much of the flooding.

 

[Marial]

There is quite a lot, actually. So much so that I couldnt even begin to explain here. If youre interested, theres a lot of good literature on the subject out there.

They are the historians who study ancient civilizations. Theres a lot to know, but it is widely believed that there were civilized, settled, peoples all around the globe prior to cataclysmic events that wiped many of them out between 15,000 and 10,000bc. They claim that the Sumerians were not the first to settle, but were rather the reemerging of those that survived the deluge.

Actually just read on YahooNews or CNN that there is some belief (and evidence) that the human species was nearly wiped out, can't remember for sure but I believe it was due to super volcanoes (like the one under Yellowstone).

 

[Bloodhammer]

Actually just read on YahooNews or CNN that there is some belief (and evidence) that the human species was nearly wiped out, can't remember for sure but I believe it was due to super volcanoes (like the one under Yellowstone).

"Know, O Prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. Thither came Conan, a reaver, a slayer, to tread on the jeweled thrones of the Earth beneath his sandaled feet." -- The Nemedian Chronicles

 

[MatticusMania]

Actually just read on YahooNews or CNN that there is some belief (and evidence) that the human species was nearly wiped out, can't remember for sure but I believe it was due to super volcanoes (like the one under Yellowstone).

Yeah, I dont think anyone knows for sure what happened, or what caused such cataclysmic events to occur. There is a lot of research looking into just that. Some even believe that there could have been advanced societies, even more advanced than modern times, that could have wiped out most of the population with some sort of nuclear event, which caused the Ice Age. While I dont know if any of it is true, to me at least, it seems plausible. There have been some outstanding findings in support the theory, but who really knows...

 

[NWB]

Actually just read on YahooNews or CNN that there is some belief (and evidence) that the human species was nearly wiped out, can't remember for sure but I believe it was due to super volcanoes (like the one under Yellowstone).

That would do the trick. I think the last really big Yellowstone eruption was about 100,000 years ago if I remember correctly.

Blowing out that much ash into the atmosphere would certainly cause climate change!