GinyuWarrior zei:
Ik krijg echt soms hartaanvallen als ik sommigen hier nog zie durven beweren dat de mens niet in staat is de aarde op te warmen, in de middeleeuwen zouden ze zulke mensen op de brandstapel gooien.
Als het ooit zo ver komt, en de lijken van mensen stapelen zich torenhoog op, denk dan maar gewoon: justice...
Nu ff serieus, klimaatopwarming en overbevolking is een feit.
Ik heb mij daar is een tijdlang geleden mee beziggehouden (puur op wetenschappelijke bronnen), en een paar dingen vond ik zeer interessant, o.a. dit:
-Environmental scientists say they have concrete evidence that the planet is undergoing the "largest mass extinction in 65 million years". Leading environmental scientist Professor Norman Myers says the Earth is experiencing its "Sixth Extinction."
Scientists forecast that up to five million species will be lost this century. "We are well into the opening phase of a mass extinction of species. There are about 10 million species on earth. If we carry on as we are, we could lose half of all those 10 million species," Myers said.
If we do not do more, Myers says, the planet will continue to lose around 50 species per day compared to the natural extinction rate of one species every five years. He projected this rate in the late 1980s to much criticism, but the figure is now widely accepted by scientists. "The whole thing is taking place in what you might call a flickering of an evolutionary eye," said Myers. "It's hard to keep up with unless we damp down on some of the causes of the evolution.
Largest mass extinction in 65 million years underway, scientists say - Wikinews, the free news source
We mogen er trots op zijn, het menselijke ras is goed op weg om de 2de komeet te worden die de dinosauriers heeft opgeruimt (5de extinction).
Na heel wat boeken te hebben gelezen over dit onderwerp (vooral overbevolking is een onderwerp dat mij enorm fascineerd) ben ik tot de conclusie gekomen dat binnen de 100 jaar, enorm veel mensen zullen sterven aan een duizelingwekkende snelheid.
In principe kunnen we er wel nog iets aan doen, maar dan zouden we nu moeten handelen, en dat gaat nooit gebeuren.
Een paar redenen:
-The natural reaction of someone reading this information is to go into overwhelm. This is just too much bad news to digest at once. People have their own various techniques for dealing with it. The most common is denial. Gloom and doom must automatically be false. Folks will happily ignore the hard facts of global warming, soil erosion and aquifer depletion, and glom onto any unscientific crackpot like Bjørn Lomborg or George Bush so long as he paints a rosy picture. Some will comfort themselves with wishful thinking. “God won’t let things get that bad.” totally forgetting God has been quite happy to permit even worse suffering in past. Some will simply put these issues out of mind.
The problem is this denial makes the problems worse. Not only to people fail to take action, they actively interfere with others taking action. So to be optimally effective, you must be upset and worry to some degree.
-Jehovism (de grote godsdiensten: islam, christendom, joden): The Jehovists are weak in preserving life on planet earth. This anti-life, anti-earth attitude has several roots:
In Genesis is the source of the belief that man is a special animal with dominion over all other species to do with as he pleases.
The emphasis on the unimportance of the physical world as unreal, just a test for the afterlife, a temporary world until Christ returns, a source of temptation from the spiritual life and the domain of Satan.
Jehovists distinguish themselves from other religions that honour the earth, trees, rivers etc. Jehovists are proud of the fact they do not honour the environment. They consider that sacrilegious.
-Corporate Capitalism: Man is naturally greedy and
short-sighted, but the invention of corporate capitalism (as compared with free-market capitalism) has magnified that tendency. We have created powerful institutions who bribe government officials to do things that help the short term profit of companies, but which hurt the health, safety of citizens and long term profit of corporations.
Corporations are pseudo people with psychotic personalities, required by law to be devoid of conscience. They are not permitted to be concerned with the interest of the stakeholders: the employees, the customers, the people living where the corporation does business. By law they must consider only profit for the shareholders.
They will do things like bribe the government to allow them to dump pollutants such as pig manure into the water, then fob the cost of cleaning them up on the public, rather than building them into the cost of the product, the way you would in a true free-market economy. Lack of care of the soil is good for short term profit, but soil loss is disastrous for the crops of future generations.
Natuurlijk ga ik worden weggelachen omwille van bovenstaande redenen (of mss is er iemand iets inventiever) maar dat kan mij niet schelen, hetzelfde dat de dood van bijna alle mensen mij evenmin kan schelen.
Ik vind het wel spijtig dat we zoveel dieren en andere delen van de natuur met ons gaan meepakken, daar zou ik wel eens een traantje voor kunnen laten...