I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

Once upon a time, there was a young, stressed out corporate events planner called Tanya. She was organising a large-scale event for her firm’s biggest client.

maybe you should admit it, roger: oil is exploitable and you can make a profit off of it. that’s why it’s called a commodity — because it can run out.

solar and wind, well the energy industry never liked the idea of a limitless energy source, did they? i mean, if you can’t control supply and demand, how are you supposed to make a profit, right, roger?

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I guess the conservative mindset finally realizes if the word goes to pot, Bye bye the beloved world of money.

Maybe involving ourselves with developing countries, as well as changing our own lifestyles might help.

Exactly. The fact that global warming is not at the top of the agenda in America is due at least in part to conservative politicians who stick their fingers in their ears and sing “lalalalala CAN’T HEAR YOU”. The idea that just maybe we need to make real investments to dampen the effects of increasingly bad weather is completely alien to them.

Ever heard of Thomas Malthus? A priest/economist who lived at the end of the 18th century, and believed that because the human population was growing at a rate exceeding our capacity to produce food there would be disaster. ‘Positive checks’, such as war, famine and so on would wipe out the ‘excess’ humans and stabilise the population. Malthus never thought that the industrial revolution would bring with it technology that would enable us to produce more than enough food. Not to mention social and economic changes.

Point being, just because we are heading for disaster doesn’t mean we are destined for it. Green technologies are continuously evolving; in order to ensure our survival we need to pressure governments to make use of them, rather than thinking ‘we’re going to hell anyway, what does it matter’? It is the nature of any animal species to ensure their own survival, but that doesn’t mean we have to look at the situation in those terms alone. I always thought that part of ‘being human’ meant looking beyond ourselves as animals…

Shut up, Roger. People come here to get involved, and they won’t be dissuaded by your sophomoric arguments.

One of the lakes I fish the DNR decided to make Bass a catch and release fish meaning you couldn’t keep one. This sounded great as these fish could become trophy quality. Sadly, this science experiment didn’t work. The Bass exploded in numbers but all the other fish in the lake humans could still keep (AND DID). In the end, the lake was filled with Bass that were stunted in growth (they even looked deformed) from malnutrition because they had no forage to eat. Humans always go extreme and wreck nature.

We do this because we are way to good at consumption. While most predators prey on the easiest prey, we are so good we got selective and prey and the best prey. We kill the largest and best game animals and fish. Basically, we kill the very best of a resource and leave the weak and dying alone. This simply screws nature very very badly.

This same thing applies to Oil as well. We take the best resource (Oil) and leave the crappier (Sun, Wind) alone. We are a very bad influence on mother earth. All that aside, we can’t change it no matter how many tree’s you want to hug.

The poor countries and the poor in general will be the first to be effected. The rich, or in a natural sense, those with more resources will be the winners.

And we are just like other animal. Every single animal on this earth including humans will try to take everything they can and will do whatever they can within there abilities. Humans evolved to a degree that we have the ability to take and control everything with nothing to stop us. As a whole, we will never be able to conserve a resource indefinately, not even our own environment. It is human nature to want more and take what you can sadly. America will feel Global warming like everyone else, but we will largely do much better then the poorer countries. It will help that we are a more northern climate as well. We simply got lucky and became the leader of the world’s resources before global warming was an issue. As it gets worse, it will simply be every nation/man for himself. America will succeed with are vaste economic/resource power. Many will not be so fortunate though.

In the end, mother earth will straighten the human race out. It will thin us out and the cycle will renew. This is just animal science 101. Check out the island (forgot the name) up in the artic circle where we killed all the predetors and let the caribou and musk Ox explode in population (we had to “save” them afterall). These mammals simply ate and reproduced out of control until every last drop of food was gone. Then BOOM, there population dried up almost over night and now there are hardly any left. Same works with humans, just on a global scale with much worse consequences.