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Originally Posted by Thor
Eating meat is no immediate danger, global warming IS an immediate danger we have much to be concerned about.
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This really belongs in all the other global warming threads but personally I put the hysteria behind that into the same catagory as the vector of this thread. Humans tend to have a very narrow and closed-minded view of things. Everything to them is the here and now and recent history. All signs always point to calamity or doom here and now from global warming to the dangers of eating meat to the rise of the illuminati bankers, natural disasters harking the end-times etc. etc. etc.
I don't think the science is complete, much of it is remarkably flawed (admitted by many of the scientists who were once vehementely in the Al Gore camp)...and like much of human nature, doesn't put the focus where it counts - the long term history of human civilization and the meteorological and geological history of planet earth (of which recorded history is like a grain of sand on the beach). I believe in climate change, but I don't believe in nor worry about the global warming claims as advocated by the current "fad" movement (even in our short lives, it seems every decade brings a new environmental fad) which like so much else...manifests itself like a religious movement in how stubborn and fiery some people get about it.
Maybe I'm just being blaise because it doesn't really affect me. I'm sure that in Iceland, that would be a major concern of yours but I'd really worry about your banks and not the rising sea-levels first!!!