On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:34 PM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Who knows?" may be valid, to some extent, but come on. Use a smidgen > of logic and ask yourself "it is plausible and possible that we're > affecting the environment?" (Environment includes climate)
Reverse the question and re-ask it. Get back to me. > > I *know* that we don't "know" (you hear me preach it time and again), > but unless I'm hallucinating the toxins (possible, but not as > probable), we're performing "actions" that have "reactions". Are we talking mercury in the water or CO2 vs O2? AKA people vs plants. > Or maybe that's all bunk too. Who knows? > > I agree, what really bothers me is this mentality that "humans are so > /small/ and the universe is so /big/. We couldn't possibly (or even > probably?!?!) affect much". Ye of little faith that believes the earth is controlled by humans. > I can tell you with 100% certainty (with a grain of salt) that we are > 100% capable of making our environment uninhabitable for us. Which is > really what we're talking about. That's not changing the globe that's called shitting where you eat. > The earth will continue to rotate around the sun (unless that's all > some kind of illusion, of course-- our senses being what they are, > fallible.), the stars will continue to shine, yadda yadda-- we're not > talking about possibly ending existence as a whole here. > > Just ending ours. If you think tree exhaust is going to ruin the planet chop them all down. > And yes, I think we are that powerful, tiny tho we be... > > Relatively. > I agree, Al Gore almost tricked everyone into doing something so st ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:309088 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
