Global Warming..Is it for Real ..Like Heaven & Hell?
There is plenty of evidence acumulated now by major scientists and even media investigators that supports global warming is of a real concern. Conservatives try to deny it every day in the media, to justify the corporate ruling over our precious planet with a total lack of concern over its ruination and changes effected by our consumerism way of life that they depend on to survive. Indeed, no one can actually prove that the world is warming due to the effect our lifestyles have on the environment. It is actually possible that the Earth is just going thru a natural global warming cycle that it has gone thru many times during its development over ions of time, before we had the technology to document these climatic changes or ways of properly recording them. After all, any one who reads a Farmers Almanac knows we have experienced 100 year cycles in weather changes that brought on droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and other regional climatic changes. That said, it can be argued that the Earth remained virtually unchanged during the time humanity has inhabited it up until the beginning of the industrial age. Men used horses and other animals for millenias to work for them and as modes of transportation. The main sources for un-natural pollution came during the Bronze Age, when metalurgy came into play. This source of contaminents, occuring primarily in the process of fabricating weaponry and armor, pales in comparison to the beginning of the industrial age. The world was still some what "All -Natural' until the industrial age of the 1800's brought us, totally foreign to the Earth, new chemical consuming modes of transportation, chemicals for heating homes, chemicals to supply power to all kinds of appliances to chemicals for killing natural things in the world to even unnatural chemicals for our bodies, unnatural chemicals being put into the air and even into the far reaches of space! How can anyone be so naive to think that after 200+ years of spewing unnatural foriegn chemical compounds into our ground, air, aquifers & waterways and space, it isnt going to change it for the worse..is somehow beyond me! Suppose 'global warming' was happening as a natural climatic cycle with no connection to our daily polluting of the Earth and its atmosphere We cant ignore the fact that we are spewing BILLIONS OF TONS of unnatural waste into our land, waterways, and air EVERY DAY...what do we have to lose by cleaning it up? Why are conservatives so obsessed with this global warming vs pollution arguement? Because it will COST THEM BIG MONEY and eat into profits if they are forced to clean it up and if they dont and it is proven the big corporations are helping us all in causing global warming, it will effect their bottom line almighty dollar..THAT'S WHY! Its a risky gamble to ignore global warming, as well as global thinning, and pretend they don't exist! Let me make a simple analogy. Consider devout Christians who will theorize that if you are a 'believer' and you die and find out there really is a Heaven..you'll be glad you believed in God and Christ. You havent lost anything in the process of believing and gained a positive religious life and access to Heaven. If there turns out to be no Heaven or afterlife , you still havent lost much in the process of having religion in your life and you may actually have gained from it. On the other hand, if you are an atheist and die and find out there is a Heaven and Hell..what will you say to God at the 'Pearly Gates" ..where do you think you will end up simply for not believing? It could be a costly mistake. Its the same scenerio In the case of global warming..what do we have to lose by believing the condition is for real and doing something about it? We'd simply make the world a cleaner, better place for ourselves, our children and our children's children, leave them with the Earth we inherited, and maybe even save some species from extinction in the process! When the signals start to show up as severe as the ice cap snows of Mt Kilamnjaro now two thirds melted away..its time to take some drastic measures! The sad fact is, all thses issues were talked about 30 years ago when I was a young man in college. Sure, some of the pollution has been cleaned up and regulations for manufactureres in this country have improved, but on a scale of 1-10, not all that much has been done to change things. The population boom as well as other countries like China, Korea, India and others all getting more into their own industrial age, has increased the demand on chemicals, creating more pollution, and has tipped the balance on any improvements the USA has made. Many of these countries have little to no standards or restrictions on pollutants. I wonder how the religious right wing Republicans who support corporations who in turn are responsible for our lifestyles thru consumer waste and pollution, would react to this analogy ? If you agree..pass this blog along..email it to a friend who may be 'sitting on the fence' on the subject of global warming. Signed: EARTH MOVER
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