[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I find it interesting that allot of US citizens (who by the way make up 5% > of the worlds population but consume 26% of its energy) refuse to believe > what we are doing cannot harm the 20 mile deep ocean of air we have > surrounding us.
It doesn't surprise me. People once believed that we could never wipe out the passenger pigeon, that we could never exhaust our supply of old-growth timber, that we could never over-hunt whales, and that we could dump anything we wanted into lakes, oceans, and rivers with no consequences. People tend to assume that human activity can't influence things that are on a vast scale. It's true for one human, but there are now over 6 billion of us and that changes things a bit.