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Polar Bears Extinct By 2050

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Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
At the heart of the GW issue is the theme that man controls the earth and its environment...instead of say God or Mother Earth...

Sorry, but Mother Earth will do as She pleases in the end...and we are insignificant by comparison IMO.

The earth has undergone change, upswings and downswings, periods of cooling and warming (oh, and so does the sun and Mars, etc.)...the earth will survive us humans too.
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..but what to do if your a druid?? you need some kind of theism to satisify the human need for a belief system.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
At the heart of the GW issue is the theme that man controls the earth and its environment...instead of say God or Mother Earth...

Sorry, but Mother Earth will do as She pleases in the end...and we are insignificant by comparison IMO.

The earth has undergone change, upswings and downswings, periods of cooling and warming (oh, and so does the sun and Mars, etc.)...the earth will survive us humans too.
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so are you saying we have had no effect on the planet?
 
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
At the heart of the GW issue is the theme that man controls the earth and its environment...instead of say God or Mother Earth...

Sorry, but Mother Earth will do as She pleases in the end...and we are insignificant by comparison IMO.

The earth has undergone change, upswings and downswings, periods of cooling and warming (oh, and so does the sun and Mars, etc.)...the earth will survive us humans too.
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so are you saying we have had no effect on the planet?
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Of course we do, but I'm not gonna go getting all greenie over it. 😉

 
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Originally posted by: FleshLight
I really don't give a fvck about the polar bears but I don't get why people choose to not believe in global warming. It's like not believing in gravity...
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Gravity? Don't you mean Jesus Glue?
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:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
At the heart of the GW issue is the theme that man controls the earth and its environment...instead of say God or Mother Earth...

Sorry, but Mother Earth will do as She pleases in the end...and we are insignificant by comparison IMO.

The earth has undergone change, upswings and downswings, periods of cooling and warming (oh, and so does the sun and Mars, etc.)...the earth will survive us humans too.
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Again, it's not as though climate change is going to suddenly destroy all life on Earth. The concern is that it might make life for us a little bit more difficult, due to more extreme and unpredictable weather conditions.

Yes, Earth does have natural upswings and downswings. But it's never had to contend with primates digging up ancient carbon deposits and burning them.
Sure, in another thousand years, Earth probably won't show any scars from the burned fossil fuels. But then, I'm not going to be alive to see those days. I'm figuring on living and dying sometime before then, and I'd rather not see the planet's weather screwed up during that time by acttions we could have avoided.
 
Originally posted by: FleshLight
I really don't give a fvck about the polar bears but I don't get why people choose to not believe in global warming. It's like not believing in gravity...
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Maybe because gravity is proven and global warming has no hard evidence behind it yet.
 
Originally posted by: YoungGun21
Maybe because gravity is proven and global warming has no hard evidence behind it yet.
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Nope. Look around - it's called "the theory of gravity."

Yes, there's evidence that matter attracts other matter. But we don't know the finer points of it, or even exactly how it works.
 
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