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02-01-2013 12:37 AM |
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Originally Posted by Scalded Dog
(Post 6107047)
That's great! Hope you don't mind, but I am going to pilfer that phrase, and start using it regularly... there are plenty of opportunities every day for me to inject that little bit o' wisdom into a conversation!
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This is the mentality of some of these people. I've seen documentaries they've made where they talk about "overpopulation" and how to control it because of the "dwindling" uninhabited land of the USA. Are you (*@&$ kidding me? Take a cross country flight and look out the window! It's HUGELY unpopulated.
They make it so we can't buy a toilet that can flush 5 squares of toilet paper because it can't "waste" water, and we can only get shower heads that don't flow for the same reason. Never mind that 7/10ths of the surface of the planet is covered in water. We must preserve it! (it's not like it goes away when you flush it or drink it.... it just goes back into the earth after you use it, so it's not getting used up like oil, etc. You have to work at it to turn water into something not water)
The most annoying thing is that they think that the Earth is static and unchanging unless the parasites are involved. Change only happens due to people. They act like the temperature has always been as cool as it was 20 years ago and only now is it behaving unusually! They actually say that last year was "The hottest year EVER!!!" to scare people. It's the hottest year since people wrote down such records. Maybe 200 years or so? What's 200 divided by 4.54 billion? That's the fraction of years we have recorded out of all time. We have pretty good evidence that the planet was much hotter just a few million years ago.
We also have pretty good evidence that the northern half of the USA was covered in miles thick glaciers just 10-20K years ago, and nobody was around then to make SUVs or build coal power plants.
If there's any real truth to what these people claim, it's lost in all the noise and propaganda that they spew out. They lose all credibility when they ignore science and attack people who are skeptical.
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