But what if you’re wrong!
“If I am wrong”, say the preachers of Hell fire, “I will never know, but if you are wrong”, they have more than once said, addressing me, “you most certainly will know.” Fair enough, but that’s my look out.The situation regarding man made global climate change is rather different. If the prevailing scientific consensus is wrong, those who have tried to do something about it will have made the effort for nothing, and the economic resources put into dealing with the matter could have been spared. That would be a shame, but money and effort have been wasted on far less worthy causes. If the sceptics and deniers are wrong, however, they may still never know about it, but future generations certainly will.
While it makes sense to always choose the option that poses the least risk to one’s self yet promises the biggest personal benefit, it can be a very selfish and irresponsible choice sometimes.
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Experiments on how to recycle going on now, even countries China etc refuse to take our rubbish enforcing us to find new ways of doing things.
If the skies above were totally clear do you know suns Ray's would fry us,
Yes things have to be done, but climate change will still go forward, unless we find away to change the way the plates go deep below us.
I hope your paying for my flight
Anthropogenic? Natural Cycles?
Who knows & who cares - at this point the question is moot...
We're waayyy past the point where any human efforts have any realistic expectations of 'SAVING THE PLANET!'
Slice & dice it how you will, we're not responsible for ALL of this...
WE didn't put an incalculable amount of hydrocarbons under subsea permafrost & a very(!) shallow water column...
It was going to come out at some time & there was going to be a terminal generation.
It's coming out NOW - and WE'RE that generation.
Did mankind hasten the process by burning carbon?
"What difference", to quote a former U.S. Secretary of State, "at this point does it make??"
"... we're phuqued." - Glaciologist Dr. Jason Box
Not rational
(Pascal's conclusion, not mine
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
But a bit of 'fire insurance'
My generation *$#@ed it's mother and then ordered dessert.
Luvvin' on Dr. Shakhova's charming Russky accent.
So what if she's describing a potential environmental cataclysm? I still love it!
Hell - she could be reading from the Moscow phone book for all I care!
Wouldn't mind getting her on a slow research vessel to the East Siberian Sea.
I'm not sure how much plastic goes into the road but i think it is a good amount, i guess over time they will see how the roads are going to hold up.... Plastic is a big problem world wide and the best ideas to use it or get rid of it, would make someone rich.