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Originally posted by biggrin
Where I'm coming from relates too assumptions, especially about cause and affect. Remember,
Have to agree with you there, just too much of it goes on.
But the fact the Earth is heating up faster than it's done for milenia is bocoming very evident, and the industrial age, greenhouse gasses are the most likely cause.
Given the potential for chaos this could cause, surely we should be worried.
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one of the major environmental assumptions/concerns of the 70s, was the possibility of another ice age on the books. How could they get that so wrong?
If it wasn't for global warming perhaps we would be heading for an ice age. Guess mistakes are part of the human condition, anybody can get it wrong. All we can do is make the best of what we've got.
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This makes me question how can global modeling can accurately predict the temperature in 25 years time?
I don't think it's possible either, weather is a chaotic system.
What I've seen of chaos theory is very interesting, and even more frightning. Systems can flip suddenly from one stable state to another, the worry with global warming is that it wont be a smooth even warming, but could suddenly flip into a whole new patern.
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My concern really relates to manipulation of emotions, for ulterior motives, especially where governments think they have a solution to a problem. When did government ever plan and implement something effectively, on a global scale, other than war.
My worry is that our government isn't interested in fixing the problem at all, (there's too many vested interests involved). They're just comming up with stuff they can put a good spin on.
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On a personal note, I ride my bike to work most days, are involved in food cooperatives to reduce food packaging, invest in environmentally appropriate companies and I'm trying to bring my kids up to be considerate of others, blah, blah blah. The think globally act locally slogan has a good pitch.
If we all had that attitude, on a global basis, there wouldn't be a problem. (As long as we aren't victims of "spin")
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What really gets my goat, and the reason from the diatribe is taxation for ineffective reasons,
Well we certainly get plenty of that, and that's unfortunately the nature of government.
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and unfortunately, the powers that be are slowly moving us toward a global carbon tax, to fix our environmental woes. Will they be taxing for the greater good or just for their own benefit? Any extension of govt control makes me fear for my kid’s future.
It's the lesser of 2 evils here I'm afraid, I'd be more worried about the nature of the world my kids are going to be living in, if we don't do something effective about global warming.
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