Before you get to wrapped up in warming nihilism get a copy of 'THE POPULATION BOMB' and read it. This was the global warming of the nineteen seventies and had everybody in academia and left wing politics in a tizzy about the world starving to death by the end of the century. It was written by a respected professor, was based on what looked like responsible statistical methods, facts, and math. If I had a dollar for every lecture citing the population explosion inevitably exhausting the worlds resources in thirty years I would be a rich man. Of course the population bomb turned out, to everyones shock, to be wrong. The look, feel, and attitude of the global warming argument is eerily similar. If you are looking to justify nihilism, I don't think that man-made global warming is going to serve you well.
I have no use for nihilism, and contrarily consider myself to be an optimist. I definitely exhibit symptoms of despair as result of the state of the world. I wrote this post based on the articles that I provided links for and specifically this article
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Keep reading....greendrollJuly 26 2006, 21:00:53 UTC
Just consider your sources.
Alternative energies were used before, the world burned coal for a few hundred years and before that burned a lot of wood. Modern combustion of fossil fuels is more efficient and releases less waste heat and residual oxidation products, although used on a vaster scale. I was pretty alarmed about deforestation until I flew in and out of Sao Paulo a few times. Sit in a window seat and all you see is forrest for hours (Unless you fly east, I have only come and gone N/S and to and from the west) and hours. Not to say deforestation is good, it is just that the world is a big place and people are concentrated in tiny little pockets of population. When you fly over New England in the US, one of the worlds biggest population centers, even it looks very green from 40,000 feet.
Re: Keep reading....greendrollJuly 31 2006, 20:06:36 UTC
So he's supposed to "consider his sources," but your completely nonscientifice, irrelevant anecdote about what you saw from a plane is meant to be convincing?
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The look, feel, and attitude of the global warming argument is eerily similar. If you are looking to justify nihilism, I don't think that man-made global warming is going to serve you well.
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Alternative energies were used before, the world burned coal for a few hundred years and before that burned a lot of wood. Modern combustion of fossil fuels is more efficient and releases less waste heat and residual oxidation products, although used on a vaster scale. I was pretty alarmed about deforestation until I flew in and out of Sao Paulo a few times. Sit in a window seat and all you see is forrest for hours (Unless you fly east, I have only come and gone N/S and to and from the west) and hours. Not to say deforestation is good, it is just that the world is a big place and people are concentrated in tiny little pockets of population. When you fly over New England in the US, one of the worlds biggest population centers, even it looks very green from 40,000 feet.
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