I have always thought that the arrogance of man is breath-takingly incredible at times. A little like King Canute thinking he was controlling the waves; and didn’t we as school children when we were first told about the Anglo Saxon King all laugh our heads off at his stupidity?
So perhaps school children in the year 2100 will all laugh their heads off too when they are told about the global warming policies of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Throughout the development of the earth there have been showers of comets hitting the earth, the earth plates shifting, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tornados, hurricanes and torrential rain causing havoc not to mention the chaos caused by snow.
The earth managed, before man came on the scene, to separate the land into countries and change from a mist covering the earth to precipitation. The earth managed this, no intervention from man.
So why do men think that they are responsible for the changes taking place, blaming the gases from animals and man and the manufacturing processes, when nature has shown its powerful force with no input from man?
Man is very, very small. I know man doesn’t like to be told this, he likes to think he is huge and in control. But in all honesty, man is minute and couldn’t possibly have the effect on the earth that man thinks he has. And the bio-sphere that man lives in is also very thin and fragile. And the fact that man survives at all is a complete miracle.
But the bio-sphere has survived all the catastrophes that the earth and planets can throw at it for centuries. Why would, HOW could, only one hundred years of manufacture cause such a catastrophe as global warming?
Bring it on! Not global warming but the politics. Because I hate plastics and pesticides so if it means we all become more organic, grow our own vegetables and avoid unnatural synthetic chemicals so much the better. Perhaps the changes will bring in smaller communities more easily policed and a more peaceful lifestyle. It will certainly help the bees to survive and therefore our food and therefore ourselves. Man will kill himself because of the use of pesticides and synthetic chemicals not the planet .
So I am quite happy to support Global Warming Policies not because I think they will make one iota of difference to the planet as a whole, but because we earthlings, we man, will hopefully become more naturally minded and stop using so many plastics and synthetic chemicals.
Check this link out for more dialogue about the Fors and Againsts of Global Warming and some data on the many scientists who don’t think man is the cause of global warming.
Global Warming blog
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Dear Marianne, I was very sorry to read this. The earth’s atmosphere weighs a little over 5 million million tonnes. Man is increasing the proportion of CO2 by a considerable amount: ‘in 1987 an area of the Amazon rain forest the size of Britain was burned, adding 500 million tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere’. Consider the effects caused by minute nutritional imbalances in the human body: nature is not equipped to deal with deliberate changes like pizzas and burgers! Best wishes – Grant
Hi Grant, Thanks for the comment. I do not like our manufacturing industry and I do not like the destruction of the Amazon Rain Forest and the knock effect that has to the peoples, fauna and flora who live there. I hope that changes will happen to keep our planet more clean and natural and healthier for everyone.
We do not know for scientific certain that the CO2 in the atmosphere is from man-made processes or from Volcanos erupting and comets hitting the earth or the percentages of each.
Man may think that he can stop the process of the earth changing but he can’t. Just as the people couldn’t stop the change of a mist covering the earth and that changing to precipitation.
But our manufacturing processes from drilling for oil and clearing the rain forest and to making toxic spreads like low-fat spreads and margarines to putting extra gluten in flour is killing us. And that we can change.
There is no Globel warming