I always get a laugh when some ppl talk about the damage humans do to the planet, as if we are some extra terrestrial race.
Man is a part of the earth, we are related to all living organisms on it. We are its current 'most capable' residents
Every thing we make or transform from raw material is also a part of the earth-we have 'introduced' nothing to the earth that is not from it--other than maybe some space rocks from the Moon
PRECISELY. All of the chemicals and "poisons" we have "created" came from materials already making up this planet. It will go back to the planet and feed it's continued renewal. Humans are not special. As you said, we are currently the "most capable" (of manipulating the environment), but other creatures had that position in the hierarchy, most recently the dinosaurs. They could de-forest an area, drive out competitors and provide a catalyst for the evolution of behaviors of other species of animal and plants because of their presence. Man can do this now. But
The Planet is the boss. We are like dandruff on it's surface, and nothing we do now or ever will "destroy" it. We may *temporarily* destroy the conditions WE need to survive here on earth, in a worst case scenario...but even that would only eliminate US and not life on earth.
This 'global warming' has been going on now for about 10,000yrs-it is one of the major instigators of our civilization. warmer temps back then helped spur on agriculture and to stop ppl from drifting about the planet as hunter-gatherers
many towns and other human settlements were lost to rising sea levels about 7.000 yrs ago--the black sea coast, the coast of the red sea and persian gulf all have submerged 'ruins' and other items on their bottom.
So even if we are accelerating this warming trend it is still natural since we are "natural"
PRECISELY again.
. Global warming, if it were actually happening and it is not (at the moment), is a natural process and seeing it as being a bad thing is what the problem is. Perhaps we should have been building our cities with these cycles in mind. The annual flooding of the Mississippi basin and cities like New Orleans is getting more and more devatating each decade because the mouth of the Mississippi wants to shift west again...as it has for THOUSANDS of years. It fills with silt, then changes course to get around the dams it has built underwater from the silt. What do we do? We dredge it out and build levees to force the river to stay the same course it has had since our precious cities were built along it's coasts.
The Great Lakes are shrinking. That makes sense, because they are remnants of glaciers which melted there and stayed in the deep glacier valleys they had dug during the Ice Age. They are losing water faster than they are gaining it and they will be gone in a few hundred years or less. All a natural process, not a "disaster".
to accept the current vox populi opinion of global warming can be argued to be linked with a belief in creation stories--that is, man is not of the earth and that we were introduced by someone/thing and therefore everything we do is god's will and unnatural.
If fundamentalist christians would actually think it through, than they should be believers of global warming
Agree! But I find that most of the global warning believers are on the far Left politically, and the fundamentalist Christians have a hard time understanding what weather is. They think it has to do with what God's mood is on a given day.
. An objective analysis of the data presented for a case of
manmade global warming reveals it to be flimsy and contradictory.