tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post592860563168391575..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: How Green is Their HypocrisyGeorge Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-85359562739286398172007-11-27T07:55:00.000-05:002007-11-27T07:55:00.000-05:00North Africa has been changing to desert for more ...North Africa has been changing to desert for more then 30,000 years.<BR/>This climate change cycle was happening before all the human over-population that we have today.<BR/> <BR/>Millions of years ago there was a condition on earth where plant life<BR/>flurished all over the planet, it was very thick and lush and this cycle brought about the oil deposits that we have today. The temperature of the planet was hot and steamy, much more so then it is today. This was not caused by burning coal etc. Cause and effect science plays a role in a closed system such as our earth eco-system - heat doesn't transfer through a vacum unless it is radiated, sun light for example.<BR/> <BR/> Many people today are up in arms about this human made change to the eco-system but most of the main high ground that may be effected by sea level increases is found on areas of the planet that are very cold. I am thinking - is global warming a bad thing? The areas that are very cold would start to be warmer and more of the land masses that are now frigid would be nicer places to live on. More food etc could be grown further north or south. Aside from the deserts of North Africa the planet is mostly ocean near the equater - some of the top of South America might get the blast of heat... So if this global warmining is indeed upon us is the change really that bad? <BR/> <BR/> It may just be nature's way of weeding off the over-population of <BR/>people. I am very wary of some of these ecological out cries because, for example, during the 1960's the Enviromental Protection Agency (EPA) halted the generation of electricity in North America by closing down nuclear power plants. The result of these closings was that we burned coal and oil for heating and power generation etc. for more then 30 years, this seems to be very contradictious to the ecologists' intentions. <BR/> <BR/> France, Norway, Europe etc. are something like 70% nuclear power driven today, a method of power production that does not throw off smog. It seems to me that if we in North America had been generating electricity with clean burning nuclear power plants all those 30 years the air would be less poluted. Ecologists seem to be a half-baked bunch... <BR/> <BR/>While we as humans are contained to this planet I do not think that we can sustain unlimited outward growth economies but that we could sustain an internal growth economy where less people have a greater standard of living eg. instead of say more housing we have better housing etc.<BR/> <BR/>When I speak of reducing the over population, I think it will be done<BR/>with the spread of education. The advanced places of the world that have more education have negative population growth and a better standard of living. It is not right that the less educated populations live in misery and over breed and then expect to be fed by populatons that have figured out how to prevent the encrease of this suffering and that those suffering will not apply the working method that is used successfully in areas that have far less suffering. Equal distribution of wealth is not a fair distribution of wealth. I think equality is for human rights and individual wealth is determined by the amount of effort one puts into the gaining of wealth.<BR/> <BR/>I think we must be careful about and think fully through these ecologically driven laws that may be applied; there seems to be a hidden agenda to redistribute other peoples wealth hidden in the mix here.<BR/> <BR/>After-burner Thoughts<BR/> <BR/>Some people are opposed to materialism, this is ok, no one is forcing them to have any material... but when they try to force their nonmaterial lifestyles on others this is where I draw the line.<BR/> <BR/>The Thanksgiving story found else where on this blog really does sum up the situation. I am willing to bet that Karl Marx and others bent thusly never have been aware of this aspect of the human condition. I am happy for others who have been successful in their endeavors and as long as they do not hold others back from succeeding, well more power to them. It is wrong to covet thy neighbours ass, it causes all kinds of trouble. (Cheap miserly skinflints are self condemned to their own hell.)<BR/> <BR/>... and another thing I have heard about a fair tax program that is begining to stir up interest and as much as I have learned about it it seems like a winning platform to run on. Well, I've used up enough space here for the time being, I'll save it for another day.Augurwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12496433469062894349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-59949406652722503232007-11-26T00:08:00.000-05:002007-11-26T00:08:00.000-05:00Swampwoman: I love the idea of having the confere...Swampwoman: I love the idea of having the conference in Duluth. Better yet, do it entirely by videoconference so no planes are used in the making of the conference. And even better yet, don't hold the conference at all. Take the money that would be used on the conference and send it to Wangaari Mathai to plant millions of trees in Kenya. FFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06981706601001285694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-80523973447941217432007-11-25T23:45:00.000-05:002007-11-25T23:45:00.000-05:00Like Glenn Reynolds has said before..."I will beli...Like Glenn Reynolds has said before..."I will believe it is a crisis when the people who are telling me it is a crisis begin to behave like it is a crisis"Mick Krauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18258821621434463192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-45258125215732662682007-11-24T05:40:00.000-05:002007-11-24T05:40:00.000-05:00I just finished 3 months working in a winery for t...I just finished 3 months working in a winery for the Harvest in S. Ontario.<BR/><BR/>Our winery is the second largest in Canada. It has a carbon footprint the size of Toronto. Fresh water goes down the drain by the thousands of gallons every week. Electricity use is on the order of a fair-sized town.<BR/><BR/>Sip on that, algore! Your wine is killing the planet :POtterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09803844140223954870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-63860256516788846652007-11-23T23:33:00.000-05:002007-11-23T23:33:00.000-05:00Why Bali? Why not Duluth?Why Bali? Why not Duluth?SwampWomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08395051552137680646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-18588293652816990622007-11-23T13:40:00.000-05:002007-11-23T13:40:00.000-05:00Spook86:Please, enough of the sarcasm. They will ...Spook86:<BR/><BR/>Please, enough of the sarcasm. They will by all the offsets needed to cover the GW effect.davodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09272330967156237637noreply@blogger.com