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Originally Posted by awareness
Let's face it, we all leave an environmental footprint of some kind.
Back in the 1800s, when world population was only a billion, it wasn't much of a problem. Now, with over 7 billion even the smallest footprint is a concern.
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Many environmentalists teach this, but I disagree. I don't think the farmer in Kurdistan burning dung is a concern. I think that cities are the concern. If Shanghai decided to generate electricity by burning wood that would be a huge concern, but if you own a couple of acres of land and want to gather the firewood and burn it each winter, that to me is something the Earth can handle.
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Originally Posted by awareness
So far, seems, war, disease, famines, catastrophes, etc., haven't been able to slow population explosion.
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I think we should be good stewards. A massive die off of people would not be a solution, it would simply make it impossible for us to develop cleaner technologies.
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Originally Posted by awareness
It's gonna take God to do it ... in the great flame out. But if He delay's, we don't need Him, we can do it ourselves.
Sooner or later humans will become as extinct as the dinosaurs. But not to worry, we, a superior more intelligent and self-conscious, being came along after them. Maybe that will happen after we're gone.
In other words, our end allows God another chance. Maybe He's learned something, and will get it right the next time.
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We were assigned the responsibility of taking care of the Earth. It is our responsibility. If we fail it is essentially insignificant. The Earth has had 5 extinctions in the last 500 million years, this will be the 6th. That only refers to the last 500 million years, the Earth is 4.6 billion years. So in the grand scheme of things on Earth this would merely make the top 10. However, there are 8 planets in our solar system, very arrogant to think that they don't matter. Finally, from the grand prospective the Sun would have to be far more important than any planet. So as far as our solar system is concerned this climate change barely registers as an important event. Still there are a billion stars in our galaxy, so from the galaxies perspective it is completely insignificant.