dohboi wrote:Soooo, it turns out that lots and lots of folks can answer not only 'this simple question,' but many many other questions about GW very well and with much support from current science.
So can we now stop bumping this stupid thread with its stupid, misleading title??
Thanks...
Why would folks stop participating? You can't even get a decent conversation going about the real threats to humanity if you have a true believer of any ONE of the possible dooms we face in the house, because they want to shut down conversations that aren't about their favorite.
Here is the question for enthusiasts of only global warming theories....and it exposes how faith based they are when it comes to viewing the future of our species.
Let us examine two completely reasonable futures, from a "global warming uber alles" perspective.
Would this GWUA person choose, A) to have the entire world dedicated to saving us from a known and calculable known risk, a risk with precedent, a risk that would destroy the species in an eyeblink, but to save the species we would need to enslave nearly all of it, killing off a majority along the way due to the nature of the work and lack of resources for get us all to the end, while mining and extracting every resource the planet holds, and in the end, when the threat has been stopped, the species would be alive (even if more than half the members aren't), on a planet rendered nearly unrecognizable (but livable) in its successful attempt to save itself and its apex predator species, or B) the entire planet happily converts to Amish nirvana tomorrow afternoon, emitting no more CO2 than their breath, happily living together for some period of time...before A) happens and destroys the entire species.
There are dangers in this universe, and it is nothing but human hubris to think that anyone's particular favorite is THE highest priority problem. Holy cow people, you would think we would be smart enough to learn something from what happened to the dinosaurs.
Plant Thu 27 Jul 2023 "Personally I think the IEA is exactly right when they predict peak oil in the 2020s, especially because it matches my own predictions."
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"