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I am a little more philosophical; sure, we, as a species, have left our
imprint on just about
every continent, just look out from an airplane and see the roads, cities,
and squared off
corn fields that used to be prairie or woods. But another study suggets that
if it hadn't been
for the coal burning in London and other western countries we might have
seen an ice age
300 years ago. The world is going thru environmental cycles if we like it or
not.
I live modestly, no A/C (trade winds take care of that); drive a 2 litre
Mazda,
and still rinse out my empty beer bottles as if they get recycled (they
mostly don't, here in PR).
We can all talk about it, but have no real control over what happens...
All we can do is limit our energy consumption.
Just my 0.02c
Walter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rit" <>
To: <>; "LIVE_ABOARD"
<>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 11:05 PM
Subject: lv-ab: the answer?
>I apologize, in advance for my grimness, but it's hard to hold my tongue on
> this one.............
>
> IMHO, I think we have passed the point of no return in achieving our
> global
> balance with nature.
>
> Each and every one of us feels we have a right to have the things that oil
> and chemicals produce. We, as a race, are not going to change. We love
> the
> benefits of oil and the chemical industries.
>
> The truth is that the biosphere can't continue to support us or our dirty
> habit of burning up everything in sight. The harsh fact is that there are
> way too many humans on the planet, producing way too much CO2 and other
> pollutants. Only war, famine or some other plague can slow the wild
> population growths and higher levels of pollution coming.
>
> I think it's a race to see if the human race can mutate fast enough to
> adapt
> to the extremely polluted environment we are creating. If we can't, then
> the natural order of things will wipe the human race off the planet and
> grow
> weeds over our "civilizations"
>
> We and our descendants face a real nightmare of rising seas, polluted air,
> barren seas, wildlife kill off and a host of other surprises from our last
> 150 years of the industrial revolution.
>
> Being sailors, we see, first hand the changes in the oceans, lakes, rivers
> and streams. I see fellow mariners polluting and caring nothing about the
> marvelous sea they are floating on.
>
> What is the answer? I only wish I knew.
>
> Do you have one?
>
>
> Rit
>
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