Humans have always been a crafty species. We've invented many things since the wheel, and progressed at an exponential rate. But... that is a big but, quantum processors and rockets came at a high price. Our environment took a big hit for us to develop all this technology. Mostly, it was due to the oil industry and the consumption of fossil fuels as vehicle food both ground, air and sea (not space they use water derivatives, mainly, hydrogen fuel). Our progress was so great, that by now we need one and a half Earth's to sustain our consumption! On the other hand, chronologically, if we considered Earth's life as one day, dinosaurs have been living for hours while humans lived for mere seconds and we've made the Earth this bad in that short a time.
As for the condition of Earth, we are facing some serious global warming issues in the next few decades, if not in our life times, definitely in our children's. So the challenge is, can we invent our selves out of this predicament? We have been so ingenious in the previous generations to overcome our difficulties, inventing vaccines to cure polio, and chicken pox, which happened to be lethal to Natives in America but that's besides the point. It only goes to reinforce the fact that humans leave destruction and death wherever they go. Getting back to our climate problem, I think the whole "inventing ourselves out of this" is a wrong mindset to put ourselves in. In fact, our intelligence is already past figuring out how to live with nature. The aforementioned Natives knew how, and all the early civilizations knew also. We just have to reduce our carbon emissions and remove the blanket of CO2 coating Earth and let it vent the heat into space. One idea that's currently out there is carbon taxing.
Global warming has been continuously proven by science to be the greatest threat to mankind since Godzilla. Yet the corporations hire scientists to provide bogus counter evidence to calm the public and keep them buying the products. I think the most obvious reason that we are ignoring this problem is that we can't physically see the problem. But that's where they get you again, we fully can see the problems. There are heat surges in other countries, causing draughts and extreme heat in countries like Russia and Somalia.
It is a new age and we have to get into the new mindset of being a global community. With the invention of the Internet, a global communication device within the blink of an eye, our first step to the next stage of global civilization has started. Recently, there has been a lot of awareness given to Joseph Kony. While that's all well and good, we need that same kind of awareness for our environmental issues and more on further from there.
To conclude, there are completely harmonious solutions and as an environmentalist, of course I would prefer to live with nature than make a compromise like we do with everything else. Please leave a comment of your view on this impending situation.
I agree with you, there isn't much awareness and energy given towards environmental issues in this day of age. Technology has given us so much power in the likes of Social Networks and we must be responsible and try to use this for the good of earth. For example, how often do you see trending topics such as #EarthHour2012 or #PlantATree
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While I do think global warming exists, I don't discount the possibility that it's due to external factors, namely changes in the Sun. Having said that, humans should do something no matter what; if we can change it, then of course that's great, but if it's not something we can evade, then at the very least, we could improve air quality. Resource overconsumption, on the other hand, is definitely our fault. I personally think "inventing ourselves out of this" is exactly what we need. For the most part, people won't change to any extreme degree (until things are visibly getting worse) in my opinion, and what we need are more environmentally-friendly solutions and provisions for easy consumption. Of course awareness is important as well, and the Internet as a platform has already led to dramatic increases. I do hope it continues to do so, as well as bring people together to affect changes.
ReplyDeleteI can see your point, and can agree with what you say. I wouldn't discount any points that have been thoroughly researched - and the changes of the Sun have been - but I do think blaming global warming on the changes of the Sun is a pretty far fetched idea. We have more than enough evidence to pin this mess on ourselves; through inspecting global heat distribution and trends in the global climate - which can be observed into millions of years ago through deep sea sediment analysis - it is very clear that people and their ever-increasing consumption rate has caused this phenomenon.
DeleteI might have a bit of an overzealous view on this matter, and I think your view is more realistic in terms of solutions and plans. I just think its a little ridiculous that we have made a huge compromise as a species for so long, what do you think?