On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 09:06:33PM +0100, Jostein ?ksne wrote: > I share your worries, Tim, but not the reasoning. :-) > Mother earth will do well even with all the crap we can throw at her. > With possible exception of a massive nuclear war, she has taken worse > blows before and just brought new life forms into existence.
I think you underestimate mother nature. The entire earth stockpile of nuclear weapons looks insignificant when compared to the energy in the storms of a major hurricane season. And the secondary effects (dust in the atmosphere, etc.) pale besides the contributions of a massive volcanic eruption. Then, of course, there's a massive meteor strike like the one that is currently believed to have hastened the end of the dinosaurs; that's thousands of times more devastating than anything we can do. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
