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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (6131)	4/3/2006 3:55:03 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

We may not be able to control the climate, but we can sure as hell screw it up. The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide You can tell that one to the Earth's ozone layer. atm.ch.cam.ac.uk Over Antarctica (and recently over the Arctic), stratospheric ozone has been depleted over the last 15 years at certain times of the year. This is mainly due to the release of manmade chemicals containing chlorine such as CFC's (ChloroFluoroCarbons), but also compounds containing bromine, other related halogen compounds and also nitrogen oxides (NOx). CFC's are a common industrial product, used in refrigeration systems, air conditioners, aerosols, solvents and in the production of some types of packaging. Nitrogen oxides are a by-product of combustion processes, eg aircraft emissions. atm.ch.cam.ac.uk The planet Earth is FINITE not INFINITE. A population of over 6 billion people can make a difference. Therefore we need to monitor the effects humans make on the planet. To suggest we have no effect is to deny the existence of "acid rain" on Europes lakes and forests. If you live on the East Coast of the USA, Nitrous Oxide and Ozone pollutants effect even the the most remote parks Wake up and smell the pollution! npca.org To suggest todays human population is not effecting the climate is like the proverbial ostrich burying it's head in sand.