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Old 07-21-2008, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Jojo View Post
I think that sums it up pretty well. It's not that humans are the only force in increasing global weather instability. But the human population has tripled in my lifetime - but the atmosphere has not. More humans mean more meat animals, more factories, more autos, more sources of pollution needed to support more lives.

We can't do squat about the natural cycles - but we do need to do what we're able to do about our contribution as a species.
Thanks.

And yet for this suggestion, I will likely get raked over the coals as some hyper-enviro nutjob.

But, I suppose it's true to our history that we won't do jack until the 11th hour, when it's exponentially more difficult. We'll whine about saving a few bucks to put controls on ourselves, only to end up spending trillions later on. Better safe than sorry isn't a common credo, unfortunately.

I'm not radically pro-environment, but I'd never thought I'd see the day where people where actively anti, as the GW deniers appear to be.
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