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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (79069)11/15/2000 12:45:46 PM
From: edward miller  Read Replies (1) of 95453
 
Quite a response, but I don't disagree with you. We all do
make a difference, unfortunately at times.

I actually agree with a lot of what you said. In addition
I actually live by my convictions by driving a small car,
when necessary, and bike to work in good weather. I have
always lived close to my work location to minimize the bad
impact that I make just by living. It is absolutely true
that we do bad things to the environment.

However, my real point was that what passes as science today
is in my opinion taking trends and extrapolating them out to
infinity, which is absolutely ridiculous.

I do not believe we will ever overheat the planet even if
we consciously tried. The planet is cooling when you look
at the very long trends. Remember that when the dinosaurs
lived the earth was much hotter than it is now. That trend
is not reversing. We are in a "short term" cycle in which
we are deceiving ourselves. The catch is the "short term"
cycle could last another 50 years or more.

Also, with peak production of oil probably hitting within
the next decade, we humans are likely to be running short
of oil to do our dirty business. Rather than assuming that
relatively easy solutions will be there in time, I suspect
that we will go through some tough times in the future -
like trying to get by with less energy because all these
"future" sources aren't coming on line as fast as people
had hoped. That means famine and war, then fewer people.

The basic truth is that the planet (and the rest of the
universe) is cooling. In a few million years earth will
be too cold to support human life. We are all dead in the
long run. With the knowledge that the universe is ever
expanding the laws of thermodynamics prove it.

By the way, with an expanding universe we have another small
problem as a species. All the thought of escaping in the
future to another planet in another solar system is science
fiction, rather pure fiction. These other possible life
support systems are racing away from our solar system so
quickly that we will never reach them.

All just my opinion of course.

So you see I am not talking about how humans can make some
impact that will be insignificant in the very long haul.

In the long haul, we are all dead.
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