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Originally Posted by Dan02
I don't think many people think we have nothing to do with it. How much we have to do with it is in debate.
Just wondering what percentage of global warming do you attribute to human activities???
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I don't know the precentage, nor do I think that humans are the ONLY cause. I just took issue with the people saying that we are not causing any problems at all by pumping pollution into the atmosphere.
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Originally Posted by transplant99
I guess you have assumed that every one in this thread is living in Alberta huh?
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Obviously I know not everyone here is from Alberta. I was really more of a joke on my part that was obviously taken the wrong way... considering I lost my reputation point because of it!
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Originally Posted by photon
Yup, every single person on this forum goes out and personally kills a tree every day so that they can exploit the land some more.  Nice generalization. |
Is that what I said??? I don't think so. But it's hard to deny the economy of this province is pretty much run by the oil companies. Not exactly a enviormentally friendly group.
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Originally Posted by photon
And somehow Alberta burns all those resources in its own borders and get rich. Amazing.
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No, they don't burn them all within their own borders. Are you saying that extracting the oil doesn't cause environmental problems???
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Originally Posted by photon
Most of those resources are exported to other provinces and other countries, and they are burned there. The problem isn't production, it's consumption. Production simply meets the demands that are there.
If Alberta stopped producing oil and gas tomorrow, somehow magically the world's consumption will decrease?
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Other countries mostly. I know in Nova Scotia we don't get out oil from Alberta, we have to import it. But that's a whole different topic altogether.
The problem is consumtion, yes, but to say production is causing no harm is pretty naive.
Look guys, I'm sorry my comments were mistaken as an attack on Albertans. It was 4am and I was just very surprised at what I read in this thread. Like I said, back home, it's kinda taken for granted that humans are playing a large part in what is currently happening to our weather patterns. I made what I thought was a joke and it was obviously taken the wrong way. Such is the danger of message boards. It's hard for others to tell what you mean without the non-verbal clues.
So I guess, in conclusion, all Nova Scotian's are naive, liberal hippies!!