Global Warming

[emperor]

There are a lot of things which are going to kill us long before global warming does.

Yep I've heard that the potential of nuclear weapons in the world is so big that if we were to launch every single rocket than every human on this planet would be killed 6 times (and that's only counting the official number of rockets, not including those which we don't know about, in countries like Iran and North Korea)

[Dino Scuderia]

Yep I've heard that the potential of nuclear weapons in the world is so big that if we were to launch every single rocket than every human on this planet would be killed 6 times (and that's only counting the official number of rockets, not including those which we don't know about, in countries like Iran and North Korea)

I'm not even talking about those unlikely extremes, I'm talking natural causes.

[emperor]

I'm not even talking about those unlikely extremes, I'm talking natural causes.

You mean a solid mixture of tabacco, McDonald/KFC/Pizza Hut, alcohol and a daily stress? Yeah I supose that is also possible

[cmcpokey]

mm, sounds like a good healthy breakfast

[emperor]

mm, sounds like a good healthy breakfast

Not quite, the only thing missing is a fat joint (you know, as for apetizer

[cmcpokey]

ehh, cant do that.. job says no to drugs for me

[emperor]

ehh, cant do that.. job says no to drugs for me

Well you know what they say: if smoking or drinking interferes with your work just quit the job
But seriously, what do you do for a living?

[cmcpokey]

I am a United States Naval Officer. Smack dab in the middle of a 4 year contract, so I couldn't quit if I wanted to.

[emperor]

I am a United States Naval Officer. Smack dab in the middle of a 4 year contract, so I couldn't quit if I wanted to.

And do you want to?
Nice job BTW Hope it pays good, cause it should IMO

[h00t_h00t]

mm, sounds like a good healthy breakfast

You eat stress for breakfast?

[cmcpokey]

i love most parts of my job, and the experiences i have had have been amazing, and they don't look inclined to stop. so no, i dont want to get out of it.

and i like to have a huge amount of stress on by 7am, otherwise my day feels pointless

[ZeTurbo]

I still don't get it when humans are separated from nature as you are implying, we are part of nature and designed to live here too...and anything we do is part of our evolution. I hate the argument that you elude to.

erm... the argument you hate explains why you are what you are, and why any living thing is the way it is today. do I sense a creationist root?

You misuderstood me here. I'm not saying we are separated. We are a part of nature, I'm just saying that we are a little too big part of this nature and that our impact on it is too heavy. If we were separated from the nature, we would have no effect on it and there would be no problem.

huh!?

OK! listen, humans, in prehistory were a part of nature. As humanity evolved we started to shape our evironement to fit US. Instead of evoving with it. Today, we need land to to farm, so we wipe out a forest. we need electricity we build a dam and drown HUGE areas. Dont you see? We are trying to control nature to fit OUR needs.

The point I am trying to make is that, we should not completly wipeout evryother living thing in the world if it fits our needs. we should try to live in acordance with it.

[ZeTurbo]

Alot of you seem to be missing a big paart of the evolution theory. The real title of Darwin's work is "The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection".

NATURAL SELECTION! as in NATURE! As in undisturbed by Humans.

[gtface]

There is a lot of gray area when you start talking about the environment, or anything related to politics or any world issue for that matter. Things are almost always a lot more complicated than they seem (and even that is probably an over-simplification). As far as humans and nature, most people seem to have a subconscious belief that humans are not part of nature, although technically it could easily be argued that we are part of it. It is difficult to say whether the intelligence and technology that set us apart from the other living things on the Earth make us no longer part of nature. Also, one thing to consider about evolution: There is no way that humans will evolve anymore in the way that other creatures have, since one of the most important ingredients to evolution is natural selection (or the "survival of the fittest"). Since almost all civilized cultures go to great lengths to take care of their not-so-fit. This does not mean that human evolution will end completely, as obviously some groups of people will die more than others due to natural disasters, wars, etc. Just something else to consider.

[h00t_h00t]

NATURAL SELECTION! as in NATURE! As in undisturbed by Humans.

This implys that human action is not natural and is controlled by a foreign being?

Everything humans have ever done has been natural behaviour, we haven't been conditioned to act like we do by anything other that the enviroment on this planet and ourselves.