Explains > The Great Global Warming Swindle
Man, I am surrounded by this crap. One of my friends downloaded the Al Gore movie awhile ago and references back to it like it’s his own ideas, (If I remember correctly, Gore first gave a speech about Global Warming on the coldest day of the year) well anyways he was trying to feed some bullshit about how our climate is increasing and it won’t be long until it’s too hot…. Then the other day somebody made some comment to me about how global warming was going to eventually doom us all. To which I (can’t help myself) responded: Yeah, I might have to go inside and turn on the AC.
Look, haven’t you learned by now… I’m not opinionated, I’m just always right:
2 Comments to Explains > The Great Global Warming Swindle
There is no way to definitively prove that global warming is caused by humans. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the cycle we are seeing has happened repeatedly over the centuries. I would say that humans may not be helping the situation, and destroying green plants is probably not a good idea, but I suspect Mother Nature would kill us off way before we did any real damage to her.
Everything in the universe is connected, and everything an individual does affects everything else. Mother Nature is a sentient entity, just not in the same way a human is. We as humans are so ridiculously shallow, (and incredibly pompous), and fail to see how everything is all tied together. There is very little we could do to permanently damage Mother Nature before she had the chance to send us all to the afterlife. It is like an ant biting your foot. The ant bites you and it stings a little. You tolerate it a little. When it stings you too much, you smash the ants. The difference is that ants could attack a human en masse and overcome, whereas there aren’t even close to the number humans needed to overcome Mother Nature before she would smash us.
We may fuck up the environment enough to make our own lives kind of sucky, and perhaps some other species will suffer too, but naturally occuring events do this all the time. Tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, landslides waste humans and other life all the time. You can compare this to Mother Nature shaking ants off of her feet. The more ants, the more Nature will smash them if they keep biting her. We are ultimately powerless over Mother Nature. This is why I do not believe global warming is caused directly by humans, if it is actually happening at all which I doubt.
The flapping of a single butterfly’s wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month’s time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn’t happen. Or maybe one that wasn’t going to happen, does. (Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos, pg. 141)
We all cause change, and create problems, but global warming is not going to be something that dooms us all.
04/09