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Originally Posted by automaton 3
Thanks for posting the graphs Nehkara. I took a class in World Climate in undergrad a few years back where we looked at similar historical numbers, and discussed the current warming trend - in the greater scheme of things it hardly even categorizes as a "blip" so far.
No question that the continued destruction of forests, burning of fossil fuels, pollution, ect. are all detrimental to the environment though.
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Detrimental, absolutely. The cause for widespread panic and predictions of coming doomsday? Not so much.
I absolutely agree that humans have done horrible things to the environment in some parts of the world but overall I don't think we are significantly altering the climate. I don't think we are in danger of an outright catastrophe of our own making.
Sure, terrible things might happen on a global scale but I would definitely say that they would have happened with or without us.
We need to take a reasoned approach to solving our problems. Work on clean fuels, new sources of energy, ways to preserve the rainforest while still allowing the people living there to make ends meet. The current approach of "Scare the out of them until they do what we want" really bothers me.
Inform people! Don't just terrify them until they acquiesce.