does the world deserve to be saved?
well the UN report published on last friday, telling very real predictions of our impending self destruction, was long over due.these facts have been well known for a long time, thank god they are finally, in all their totality, out in public. even more importantly, all nations under the UN now have a responsibilty to accept the UN report, believe in the changing climate, and respond. the debate is over.
or is it?
you know i'm just not sure if humanity deserves to be saved? chinas response to the report was clear (and fair): "why should you (the west) stop us modernising, when you have been doing it for years unregulated?" well yes thats right we've got ourselves into trouble, lets focus on the east (takes the pressure off us now) and make it their problem. well who buys all the equipment and goods made in china? we do. one brit emits the same amount of co2 as a chinaman, its just they have a bigger population. Is the problem really china?
india's response was even more interesting, and the crux of the problem i think. the indian high commissioner to the uk said: "the country's without the sun have the money to make new technologies, and the ones with the sun don't. you pay for it, you give us the technology and we'll use it! we are a developing nation, with thousands even without electricity, and we have have to stop developing?" why should they? we have electricity, we have a health care system....they don't. they have the right to develop, the right for basic infrastructures, don't they?
we take from the east, we created an economy that sustains these problems, we drip feed them technology as though its our western ego-centric capitalist right, when really it a human right.
for too long has business has controlled the way this world spins, the way humanity acts towards other humans. a time is coming when money wont matter, a time is coming when humanity will merely be history, remebered for its greed and lack of "human-ness".
this world needs to choose life, not business. make no mistake profit seeking is killing us.
posted by jodes da princess @ 8:46 AM
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Bring the revolution!
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Yeah- revolution- recycle your plastic bottles!
Now I'm no David Bellamy disciple (did you know he doesn't believe in enhanced global warming?), and I'm trying to make sure that my life affects the earth as little as possible, but are we aiming for restoring the natural balance, or preserving the human race?
What I mean by that is this: We are actually in a sort of Ice Age at the moment- on the whole temperatures are the lowest they have been for millions of years. There is also a fair bit of research to say that the sun is going in to a cool phase which will last for 200 years or so- similar to the 'little ice age' that lasted from 1500-1700.
I'm not disputing the fact that humans have affected the global climate, but I think that it is worth asking what we are aiming to do. Is our goal to return the earth's temperatures to their natural level, or is it for the protection of the species. Because they might not be the same thing. If the sun does cool down and we enter 2 centuries of cold weather, will we try to heat the earth up, or leave it to its natural course?
Good questions Timmy, give us what you got Jodie.
I'm curious to know where you got this information from?
Hey Jons.
Erm, I got the information from a couple of different places- most on the internet, which I know is a hotbed of psychos and nut jobs.
There was one from a tv programme, but I tried to find what it was but couldn't.
I have found out that the earth is the hottest its been for 12,000 years, but mammals have been about for 65 million years. It was 10-15 degrees C hotter than it is today.
There is a good article explaining what I have heard here
Some other ones are:
here and here
my unqualified response to these articles would be that are they credable?
the over whelming consensus is the world is getting hotter because of c02, etc. and it appears it alwasy has been the consensus.
and from what I've seen (al gore's inconveint truth for one) is the temps are breaking records at the moment. and in fact it is true the world has seen 'natural' rises and falls, but nothing compared to what we have now. and thats evidence presented from the ice cores retrieved in the antarctica.
and I've heard it been said that the bush administration has led anti-climate change campaigns. cos they love there gold bars so much. labelling climate change as the 'biggest hoax ever'.
so i wouldn't put too much weight to these types of writings. the evdience shows us the earth is in trouble.
although the wikipedia one is interesting. but doesn't seem to be contray to climate change?
and what I think we're aiming to do is not to destroy us. the world will win, if we continue to piss it off, it'll kill us.
we need to find a modern way of restoring the balance so we can live alongside each other. going back or 'demodernising' is not an option, there's too many of us. population experts say the world should balance at 9 billion, we need to find a way to feed, house, fuel 9 billion people without killing the world and ourselves.
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