The more correct way to put IMHO it is that it's easy for man in his
arrogance to assume he can cause and/or prevent long-term
climatological change. In reality, life has been wiped out more than
once on this planet and it will likely be wiped out again. If nature
is moving more quickly now toward a new climatological regime, whether
we contributed to it or not, we're pretty much powerless to stop it.
But the evidence that it may be happening more quickly followed by the
conjecture that it can be explained by man-made phenomena are less and
less convincing the larger your geological time horizon. All manner of
sudden and seemingly inexplicable changes have occurred on this planet
long before man hobbled together his most recent attempt at
civilization. To think economic sepukku is the "cure" to this
perceived problem is naïve in the extreme.
We are as much a part of nature and its laws as any animal. Do we do
destructive things? Yes. Will destroying our economy fix the balance
of nature? Of this I am skeptical, even allowing the speculation that
economic progress is the "culprit". I see little gain and only a lot
of pain in taking the kinds of measures advocated by those who feel
the end is near and we must, so to speak, repent of our modern ways by
dramatically curtailing our economic activity.
Clearly sensible steps should be taken to be as conscious of our role
in the ecology of things, but to think governments or multi-nationals
are capable of sensible things is a matter that requires rigorous
proof before we trust or require either to take those steps. :)
First we have to define "sensible" and I think this has as much chance
of success as getting Pamela Anderson and Pat Buchanan to agree on the
term "decent"...
- Bob
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! Only an idiot would believe that global warming is caused by
! man. Why just 30 years ago, the same
! morons were calling for an ice age.
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! http://www.junkscience.com/mar06/Time_AnotherIceAge_June241974.pdf
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