At 8/11/09 12:58 PM, citricsquid wrote:
At 8/11/09 12:53 PM, scubastan089 wrote:
The Earth is warming yes, but it is not caused by human beings. It is a cycle that occurs every century or so where the temperature increases extremely then drops quickly. We cannot stop it as it is nothing to be fixed. We should just let it be.
I think that to an extent, you're correct, but surely our use of things like petrol and other carbon dioxide emitting things are contributing to it?
Exactly. The man isn't really even making a point about whether or not global warming is something completely catastrophic that we need to work against or whether it's bullshit that we should ignore. He's just saying that, if those are the two arguments, then fighting against it when it doesn't exist is much better than ignoring it if it does and it's logically sound.
It's like saying that wearing a motorbike helmet whilst riding a motorbike is better than not wearing one because you might get hit in the head by a brick flung by a random kid on the side of the road.
But they've thrown in a such an unbelievably random thing that people suddenly pounce on the fact that a child throwing a brick that hits you in the head as you cruise by at 100mph is so outlandishly unlikey that helmets are a stupid idea and should be abandoned.
The far fetched idea (brick to the head) is put there to get widespread attention but the underlying fact that we aren't doing as much as we could (just wearing the goddamned helmet in case of other things such as crashing and hitting your head on the road) is what should really be focussed on.
Basically there's clean energy, that's easily tapped, that's more or less free after the initial setup and it can completely transform the world. Not only by helping third, second and first world countries, but also by ensuring that we don't contribute to polluting the earth as much as we do regardless of whether or not we are contributing to the current climate.
Rich stay rich and poor stay poor is the only real argument against it.