$Trillions$ Debt? No worries. Planet will be Dead in 40 years anyway
08 June 2009 4:24 pm by pmichael
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/06/08/danson.oceans/index.html
If Oceana and Danson’s facts are correct, we need to quit worrying about the ‘debts’ we are passing to our children, and worry far more about their very lives in 40 years. In other words, Be afraid. Be Very Afraid.
“The U.N. reports that 75 percent of seafood species are maxed out or overexploited and catches of nearly a third of these species are less than 10 percent of what they once were. Ninety percent of the big fish — sharks, tuna, swordfish — are already gone, according to a 2003 study in Nature.
The chemistry of the oceans is changing as they absorb 11 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide a year, and scientists say the acidifying waters will make it impossible for coral reefs, the nurseries of the sea, to grow. At the current rate of acidification, corals, sea snails and other calcium-carbonate-requiring life forms could begin to dissolve by the middle of the century, with potentially catastrophic results. Shellfish and fish will be in deep trouble as well.
This is all happening on our watch.
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Oh Ms. Marsh you being such an ALARMIST!!! Everbody KNOWS JEEBUS gon come back an rEEEstore everthang!!! Whatchu, some kinda ATHIESTIC LIBERAL or sompin?!
“Ms Marsh” ? ?
Did you take your meds, Sec ? *LOL*
Taylor had nothing to do with this.
Yeah secular, this diary is by pmichael.
The planet will prevail.
This is the dawning of the real age of Aquarius.
The planet will prevail.
Yes, as George Carlin pointed out, we don’t need to worry about the “planet”. Short of a giant meteor or our sun’s explosion, the “planet” will be just fine. It may look like Mars soon, but it will still be here.
It’s the humans that will disappear – not that this wasn’t a foregone conclusion, anyway.
As I have a minute, Taylor, and I’m sure those who believe human life is somehow ’sacred’ will find my above statement aggravating – I’ll take a moment to explain. Yes, these are deductions which could be described accurately as ‘my opinion’ – but, to date, no one has given me a gram of reason to believe differently.
Intelligent Life is Self-canceling.
While I may be a HUGE fan of Carl Sagan, and adore his only fiction story, ‘Contact’, one fact is abundantly clear. Technology advancement in an intelligent society does not stop. Given ‘cosmic’ time factors (which Sagan demonstrated in the factual ‘Cosmos’, perfectly) to say life elsewhere would have centuries more to advance would be a sad understatement. Yet – with all our current capabilities (Hubble, etc.) – not ONE sign or ‘beacon’ of intelligent life elsewhere has been found. Sci-Fi writers speculate of such things as the Dyson Sphere – a physical construction which completely surrounds their sun. Yet, if such a society exists, it is apparently incapable of shining a ‘flashlight’ or other signal in our direction to simply say “hello”.
UFOs from other planets are complete nonsense.
But besides this extremely apparent and simple proof that intelligent life elsewhere doesn’t exist (unless it’s younger) – there are also logical reasons why this is so. In order for ‘intelligent life’ to continue much farther than we are currently, at least one of the following two things must be stopped:
1) Technological advances.
– Unless you somehow put a stop to those, we will continue to find bigger bombs, new viruses, new chemicals, and who knows what else. Unless this progress is halted, the ability to destroy all life will simply become easier with each passing decade (see ‘12 Monkeys‘)
2) The simple mathematical existence of ‘crazy’ people.
– Billions of people – all different (or desperately trying to be). Can we stop that? I sincerely doubt it – and all it takes is ONE with the keys to one of those technological advancements mentioned above.
And when that person pulls the plug, I have a sickening feeling they will be expecting God’s ‘approval’ (or at least a bunch of virgins) as their reward. If you picture life on this planet as a very complex ‘house of cards’, then it’s easy to see how pulling out only one card brings down the entire construction. I do not believe it is possible to prevent that from happening – eventually.
As Rachel would say, ’somebody talk me down’.
I have made that request for decades now.
No one has.
We all gotta grow long hair an run around nekad?!
No, secular. Geez you’re getting nutso lately.
How about just appreciating the individual sunrises (gifts) we’re given Today ?
and I don’t think *anyone* wants to see either of us old farts running around “nekad”. *L* I can pretty much guarantee that.
When you focus on the natural areas of our planet instead of the parts of it brought to you be the media (in all forms), there is a vastness that has no people living in/on it.
I’m with Taylor, the planet will prevail.
The earth being destroyed in a giant fireball caused by a religious nut with a huge bomb is another sci-fi fantasy.
When you expand this concept to the universe, it is impossible for us to claim there is no other life/intelligent life in the universe just because we haven’t noticed any.
IMO, The vastness of the universe is beyond human comprehension. The fact that we humans evolved from a few amino acids here on earth is proof enought that it can happen other places as well.
“I’m with Taylor, the planet will prevail.”
Of COURSE the “planet will prevail”. At least until the Sun dies anyway.
There is no reason to assume there will be HUMANS alive on the planet though.
We CAN NOT kill the planet.
We CAN render the atmosphere and environment unsuitable for sustaining human life though.
As for the “nutso” moments…chalk it up to the trauma of being called a moran by a moran.
As for the running around nekad, my sweetypie would beg to differ. At least as far as I am conserned anyway!
I’m trying not to picture ‘Walter’ nekad, Sec. *L*
IMO, The vastness of the universe is beyond human comprehension. The fact that we humans evolved from a few amino acids here on earth is proof enought that it can happen other places as well. Alice
Well said, Alice. However – that wasn’t the premise. I also believe intelligent life can develop elsewhere (though when you look at the long list of what may be needed such as tides created by a moon, it’s probably *very* rare!). The question is, how long can that intelligent life exist without rising to the point of its own destruction? And the SciFi ‘giant fireball’ is low on the list, BTW. Far more likely is something extremely small – like an unstoppable virus or aggressive disease.
More bad news …
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/10/climate.change.refugees/index.html