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the the thing we pump more crap into the air, then remove the natural buffer mechanisms like trees etc which soak it all up
and volcanoes themselves buffer as they may pump a lot of gas but the solid they pump into the air, blocks out the sun too, so producing big cycles of hot then cold then hot then cold
Even when it's clear that what we do is nothing compared to the activity of volcanoes?
like the oceans and the rain forrests both of which we have stripped and damaged
Sorry, just read that above.
Which again, returns to the question, how much slack is there in the system?
haha i mean big scale eruptions, which we humans have never seen, like non typical volcanoes, as in they are lakes of magma and extremely high pressure gases, all stuck under a layer of crust, like yellowstone national park in america has literally blown up in past.
Yellowstone will take the state with it when it goes.
There was a supervolcanic explosion that reduced the human population on earth to the thousands about 600000 years ago.
we have no real way of knowing how much slack there is or isn't.
we need to clean up our act.
this world could be very very beautiful ...but we use it and treat it like a toilet.
not a good idea.
Oh well, it doesn't matter what we do to the planet then. My mistake.
It may not matter what we do to the planet, on the basis that in the scheme of things (the planet's life-span) it won't really make any difference. It all depends on how much we want to live.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/04/climate_change/html/climate.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3928017.stm
There is slack in the system, however our actions are tipping the balance which has existed in nature for millions of years.
Volcanoes do release CO2 and some scientists have argued that volcanic activity in the past has bought about mass extinctions. But volcanic activity does not explain the way that CO2 started to increase when societies started to industrialize and started using fossil fuels.
Revelation 11:18
The people of the world were angry, but your anger has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward your servants the prophets and your holy people, all who respect you, great and small. The time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth!
Well done rolly. I bow to you.
Now, what is the best way forward?
Especially considering
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Originally posted by J
Like some kind of two headed beast rising up!
without humans there would not realy be any point in the planet.
Elaborate?
no inteligent minds to wonder ...to look at the stars ...to measure and build ...to record ...no history.
the planet earth would be just like all the other dead planets but with cows.
Humans evolved brains in order to use and abuse the landscape around them.
Like (for example) if i went hunting and shot a goose , thats pure natural selection.