An Inconvenient Truth

[theemptied]

I'm watching An Inconvenient Truth right now. The trend of warming, the increased storms...

All I can think is that we are an infection, causing a fever, and Earths immune system is gearing up to wipe us out.

Comments

[femmdraven]

Scary, isn't it?

[mykal58]

I agree that we are an infection that is currently breeding out of control. However, I think the science behind the whole global warming scare is pretty weak. We just don't have good numbers on historical climate changes. I am particularly skeptical of "science" presented by politicians. That is not to say I don't think the planet is warming. I just think we don't understand the cause and effect well enough.

I am more concerned about deforestation, overfishing, and all the crap we are dumping into the oceans.

[theemptied]

Seasonal flooding can actually be GOOD for crops, if you are growing the right ones anyway... I'm not rushing to start building rice paddies on South Mountain quite yet, but I can definitely imagine a fundamental shift in how we eat (which is a huge problem itself).

[screamingshiva]

I think our thought process is the infection... if we learn to think differently, act differently and tread lightly... ie become part of the world instead of working against it to get our way ... we wont be considered harmful bacteria anymore... but yeah... gonna take a lot to get there...

Learn to swim?

[azul_ros]

I agree with this thinking. I don't like to go along with the whole doom 'n gloom concept. I see it as a scare tactic & not necessarily the "End" just because someone made a movie about a (albeit quite real) possiblity. If anything, the movie was created to try & make people *wake up* & change things. So that we don't end things that way.

[theemptied]

Right, like cancer or e. coli- a normal benign part of the whole gone awry. I am going to reduce my footprint- indeed, I already have. I turned the thermostat to 80 today, and just today realized how much less *trash* I create as a vegetarian. Trash which is usually made from petroleum itself.

My Jeep is still a gas guzzler- can't change that (and won't), but when I move I had already planned to move somewhere close to the light rail route in Tempe. I was more conscious of unnecessary lights today than I ever have been.

One interesting thing that I wonder about... If we generate enough CO2, there will be more CO2 in the waters of the planet as well. CO2 dissolves into and out of water amazingly easily. When it reacts with water, it creates carbonic acid, and changes the pH of the water. You can see up to a 1pH difference in water fresh from the tap (which is loaded with CO2) and the same water left in a bowl for an hour or two. A global shift in average pH of the water could be devastating in and of itself.

[darkmatterhari]

There's always the alternate approach. The Earth and Plastic, courtesy of George Carlin.

Just for fun.