More like, man, himself, will cause the extinction of our species
Good morning everybody,
MAN!
What can we expect from a species that poisons it's own bodies and families with tobacco smoke and thinks it's alright.
I am not sure if this video was already posted into this thread or not.
I don't have time, nor the desire, to sift through all 116 posts.
I am not sure how many HU members have seen this video as it's received over 11 million views, so far. So, it's nothing new.
It really relates to this thread topic.
It's sad but, seemingly, true.
Babe,
xoxo
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Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
Apt video. Haven't seen it before. Your post reminded me that once the planet's atmosphere had very little oxygen. The first photosynthesizing bacteria arrived about three billion years ago. They produced oxygen as a waste product, having no use for it themselves. To most lifeforms back then oxygen was toxic. But instead of building up in the atmosphere this new form of "pollution" was largely used up in oxidation reduction reactions (the weathering of ferrous rock formations etc.) About 50 million years ago, with the arrival more successful photosynthesizing organisms, oxygen started to build up in the atmosphere. As photosynthesizing plants evolved they inadvertently started poisoning themselves and the planet. The new atmospheric gas even kicked off an "ice age" known as the Huronian Glaciation.
Luckily there was a workaround: lifeforms that produced energy with the help of oxygen and produced carbon dioxide as a waste product. One particular species of oxygen user (humans) learned to produced energy by burning fossil fuels outside its body. The process produces even more carbon dioxide waste than their internal metabolic processes do. They use the energy to run their complex hive societies and they're flooding the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. The species is so successful it covers the face of the planet, and doing so it's denuding vast areas that were devoted to photosynthesizing plants that drink up carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. The mean temperature of the planet is consequently rising. The hotter atmosphere holds more water vapor for longer times before releasing it as rain or snow, creating long periods of drought in some regions and torrential downpours in others. The energy imbalance increases the amplitude of jet stream meanders resulting in frigid winters where the meanders dip far to the south and hot crispy summers plagued with forest fires where the meanders climb north.
The moral of the story is that a biological species can (and have many times in the past) effect global climate patterns, cause mass extinctions and resurface the face of the planet. The planet is not an inertial sink which can nonchalantly absorb our abuse like a mother lion might tolerate the rough play of her frolicking cubs. We can and are doing damage to our ecosystem and ourselves: not because we're evil, or greedier than other species...but simply because we're too ignorant to curb our success before it consequences secure our demise.
Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
Hi trish,
I will have to disagree on that last bit when you say humans are not greedier than other species.
Humans are the only species on the planet that is greedy.
We are no longer so ignorant as we were eons ago.
However back then, there were no factories to pollute the earth.
Today, "Big Business humans" are greedier than ever - and they know the risks involved and the damage they are doing but they just don't care until someone sees them and complains about the dumping of toxins into the oceans and landfills EVEN if the landfills drain into into bodies of water that become human drinking water.
They still continue to dump without a care when no one is looking.
Maybe the New World Order should happen and the rules on the Georgia Guide Stones should be the new laws. Maintaining a limited population might be the solution, but not for people like you and me - we are not the elite who will benefit from such a New World Order. We'll be executed like wounded horses,instead.
Call it what you will, but it all boils down to what man has created - industry.
When the automobile was invented, they should have stopped production when they realized the stench of exhaust fumes, but they didn't. Money!!
Perhaps, yes, Ford, was ignorant to the damage his stinking invention would cause years later but they are GUILTY to continue to make and sell cars with the combustion engine.
Electric cars were made years ago and were destroyed because they would KILL the car industry which would hurt the economy - like, WTF?
They would rather kill the planet instead of a money-making pollution machine that we never really needed.
Something else would have been invented which might have been much cleaner than a stinky car engine.
Same with smoking cigarettes.
Greedy tobacco companies would rather kill people for profit just because closing down all the cigarette companies would hurt the economy. The governments are well aware, now, of all of this and they still ALLOW it to continue for profit.
Remember, Valiant Thor once offered the USA government a cure for all human diseases that would stop people from dying from disease.
The USA government refused the offer saying, "It would hurt the economy of the planet earth."
GREED!
Humans have far too many useless "toys" and we think they are necessary for our comfort and even our survival. Good ole advertising for ya. They convince us to buy and eat crap just because they make us THINK we would like it.
Wanna save the environment?...we should all stop watching television and listen, instead, to internet radio stations such as www.wbai.org or www.prn.fm
Far too many soda pops on the market, candy companies, too much junk food.
Far too few companies in charge of the food supply. They control it all. I've read in some USA states it's forbidden by law to even grow your own food in your back yard. I think the reason was because they claimed the ground is not safe enough to grow food in.
I thought homemade, whole wheat, bread was healthy if i used organic flour, until i learned that all the wheat, itself, has been genetically modified. Sure it's organic, organic crap! Not the same strain of wheat is being grown today as was back in the day when all food was all organic.
Wheat today is addictive. Literally addictive. And it's making people fat and unhealthy.
Check out William Davis' book called Wheat Belly. There are videos on youtube, also.
Greed. Humans are all about greed and personal profit- unless forced to do otherwise.
Look at that bogus carbon tax law thingy (whatever it's called) where companies are granted the right to dump.
People are only looking at the state of the earth and not looking at the real issues, the real problem - and that is industry for profit. So long as money is being made, the government will allow it.
Who ever structured our civilization should be have been shot.
People are still living in the Amazon jungle untouched by modern man. They survive without candy, tv, and all the rest of the crap we would die for.
Babe,
xoxo
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Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
The (paradoxical) trouble with humans is we think we're the exception to every rule.
Rabbits overbreed in Australia.
Kudzu displaces most other plantlife in the South.
Parasitoid flukes kill their hosts.
Lions overhunt their territories.
Life, by its very nature is greedy.
In a balanced ecosystem every species is kept in check by another.
When a check is eliminated (or a new species is introduced that has no check), then a few species will overwhelm and often collapse the whole system. Human's have destroyed almost all the checks. We live in a state of Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance.
The one thing that could save us is that humans are self-aware: we know that we're greedy and what that greed is doing to the world. But the compulsion to be greedy (that evolution has instilled in us) may be too strong to obviate.
Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
[QUOTE=Dahlia Babe Ailhad;1554726]Hi trish,
I will have to disagree on that last bit when you say humans are not greedier than other species.
Humans are the only species on the planet that is greedy.
--There is no doubt that humans are acquisitive, it probably began with the need to store food to make sure there was something to eat in the winter -squirrels do it too. Other birds and animals collect things to make and protect nests. It may be that the accumulation of things generated systems of barter and exchange that created the capitalism which you call 'greed'.
It is also a fact that even before modern industry humans were capable of denuding forests, through slash and burn agricultural strategies; it is claimed that the 90 million odd Americans who lived in your country before the arrival of 'the others' in some places hunted the buffalo to extinction.
Remember, Valiant Thor once offered the USA government a cure for all human diseases that would stop people from dying from disease.
The USA government refused the offer saying, "It would hurt the economy of the planet earth."
--Valient Thor? The 464 year old visitor from Venus with six fingers who had an apartment in the Pentagon, met Eisenhower and Ford, and one day flew back to Venus in his flying saucer, lift off from Virginia....please, be realistic: of the two 'known' photos of 'Thor' one has been identified as an army officer who was at the meeting in the Pentagon where he was photographed, the other was a model. There is no life on Venus. The man who proposed this theory was widely recognised as a Christian Evangelist crank; Presidents meet cranks all the time. Eisenhower met one every day, his name was Dicky. Perhaps he was really from Uranus.
There really are more important issues facing planet Earth to deal with that all have practicable solutions. We don't need visitors from Venus to help us defeat smallpox, polio, TB or any other disease.
Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
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Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
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