And what if living just a little bit less comfortable or signing Kyoto isn't enough? Toine
On 12/27/06, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, actually the question is fairly simple. If there is just 10% > chance that we are ruining our environment. Should we just take our > chances or are the consequences of those 10% so bad that we should be > a little careful just in case? > > It´s a little bit like the discussion we had about helmets. Most of > the time we don´t crash, but many still use them. Only in this case > we are not the only victims if we fail. > > Are we willing to be just a little bit less comfortable to reduce the > chances of ruining our world? > > DagT > > Den 27. des. 2006 kl. 18.27 skrev graywolf: > > > Some of the ice seems to be melting, some of it seems to be getting > > thicker. I have found nothing to confirm that the ice cap averages > > over > > a mile. I do know that it is over a mile think in some places, but > > that > > is hardly an average. Any realistic information I have found about the > > ice caps overall melting faster than normal can be translated to "Who > > knows?". Remember where the ice caps extended to 10-20 thousand years > > ago; whoops, who can remember that far back? > > > > And interesting, but related, aside: We think of forests as resources > > and recreational areas. To prehistoric (before metal tools) man they > > were a real threat slowly encroaching upon their tiny fields and their > > hunting areas driving them into the recently melted glacial tundras > > along with the game they depended upon. For many thousands of years > > mankind was caught between the retreating glaciers and the advancing > > forests. The evil forest of folktale was very real. And that long slow > > war may be the cause of the rise of modern man as the dominant > > species. > > > > > > > > John Francis wrote: > > > >> The problem comes with the Antarctic ice sheets (and, to a small > >> extent, > >> glaciers and snow/ice cover in other parts of the world). The > >> average > >> thickness of the Antarctic ice is well over a mile. Even the smaller > >> West Antarctic ice sheet contains enough ice to raise mean sea level > >> by 20 feet. The larger East Antarctic sheet contains an order of > >> magnitude more ice - enough to raise sea levels by over 150 feet! > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
