Its like fleas arguing over who owns the dogs back.
At the end of the day we are having no more effect on the earth than anything else. All the pollution in the world doesn't add up to anything like some of the catastrophic events the earth has suffered since it was born. Before you and I walked the earth it was struck by asteroids and undergone volcanic activity that nearly extinguished life a hundred times over. If you want to be an environmentalist do so for mans sake. the earth could care less. It can wipe us out in the blink of an eye, and ten thousand years later you'd hardly find a trace we were ever here. _____ From: bmorgan...@aol.com [mailto:bmorgan...@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 11:46 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] Climate change I am so very sick and tired of the climate change debate and of the perversion of science that is used by both sides to justify their underlying political agenda. No one has ever suggested that the earth's climate is static. There is no question but that much of current climate change is anthropogenic and driven by fossil fuel consumption. The problem is the RATE OF CHANGE over and above the background natural rate of change (which changes all the time!). The evolution of life on earth, especially that of so called "higher" life forms, cannot keep pace with the current rate of change which is greatly exacerbated by our rape of the planet. An increased rate of change inevitably favors fast evolving "lower" life forms and a diminution of biodiversity. That means that in the future we will manufacture our energy from bioengineered pond scum and eat the byproducts thereof. That is not a future that any responsible person would want for their children's children. I am a fundamentally conservative person. That means that I prefer the status quo, not the status quo of the twentieth century, but rather the status quo of the last few million years during which time change was slow and natural barriers prevented promiscuous intermingling. As a result of which the biosphere increased in richness until quite recently. Those who question anthropogenic climate change are conservative in an entirely different way. They are directed by their inner ape to consume the fruit right now with no regard whatsoever for either the past or the future. They look at their ephemeral institutions as fixed in stone by some imaginary higher power who justifies their dominance over every other life form on earth. As a true conservative I never thought I would see the day that I would abandon such quaint and antiquated concepts as individual freedom, human rights and the dignity of man, but that day has come. When I listen to the apelike gibberings of christians, moslems, republicans, and others who deny the reality of our impact on the earth I long for the day when our future Chinese overlords will have the wisdom to simply shut the mouths of the godfearing, eradicate redundant populations, dole out a gobbet of porridge for all, and cut off the balls of those who insist upon putting their hands into the cookie jar. Sleazeweazel
