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

To: miraje who wrote (12139)	5/1/2007 7:17:13 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

You can't have both, IMO, and it's extremely naive to believe otherwise Well, something's gotta give. If China and India become us, the 3 countries, by themselves, will consume 2.25 x our current world energy usage. Cuz we are using 1/4, and there are 8x as many of them as there are of us.

To: miraje who wrote (12139)	5/1/2007 7:32:18 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

If we get a real dose of climate change, I'm not going to look like the naive one. It does not matter at all if it is, or is not caused by humans. I think we need to keep a very careful check of what we are doing to the environment. I am completely happy with what the IPCC are doing. Hey, if they offered me a job I would probably take it. It wasn't so long ago (100 yrs) that nearly everyone was religious and went to church. The reason was life was unpredictable, violent and usually short. If you don't believe me go to any town that is more then 150 yrs old and count the number of churches there. The fact remains that religion is a natural state of a person. The luxury of not being religious can disappear in an instant. I do have a scientific background, and like many scientists, I am religious. Although I don't go to church on Sundays, I believe that there are powers of life that are much greater then anything we know of. Belief in God is a simple way of putting it. Everyone has a "religion" some have science as a religion, or maybe just their way of life. They believe they know what's what.