From: Leland Jory (ljory@mts.net)
Date: Wed Mar 10 2004 - 22:19:59 GMT
Ascmjk@aol.com wrote:
> I also don't really agree with the other sentiments of your post.
> Earth is not in trouble. This planet is four and a half billion years
> old. Earth has survived forces that are slightly more damaging than
> SUVs. I can name some of them: cometary impacts, volcanic eruptions,
> whole continents moving, violent upheavals too horrible to think of
> witnessing--Earth survived it all. Human beings are not God. Human
> beings can not control the weather. Ants have more of an impact on a
> person's front yard than we do on Earth's environment.
That has to be the biggest load of tripe I've heard in a long time.
Excuse me, but we are wrecking the Earth. We are poisoning the air
faster than nature can clean it. We are poisoning the water supply
faster than nature can clean it. We are expanding into animals' habitats
and forcing them into extinction. We're overfishing. We're overbreeding.
It's not that what we are doing to the planet are things that it can't
deal with. The problem is the rate at which we are doing these things.
> Earth takes care of herself.One hundred years seems long to us humans
> (one hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers,
> etc), but to the Earth one hundred years is NOTHING. A million years
> is nothing. Earth lives and breathes on a much vaster scale (to quote
> a character from Jurassic Park).
Earth may take care of herself, but she does it on a geologic timeframe.
It's like we're pointing a gun at her head and, for the past 100 years,
we've been slowly squeezing the trigger. At some point soon we're going
to reach the moment when we squeeze the trigger too far and that'll be
it for Earth. We've got to put down the gun.
There, that's my eco-rant of the moment. That ought to last me.
--
Leland Jory :^{)>
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away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling." -
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