Fairytale ending for globing warming...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(burritos @ Jul 22 2006, 12:07 PM) [snapback]290574[/snapback]</div>

Sounds great...except that the Nations can barely agree on anything now. Even when faced with a catastrophe like this, I doubt they will ever work together long enough to actually solve any of these problems. More likely they will fight over the resources that are left and leave us with a "Mad Max/Road Warrior" or "Waterworld" scenario. I know, sounds pessimistic...but just looking at all of the fighting and hatred in the world today makes it hard to see how all of that would suddenly change.

 

No, never happen. Besides that what difference would it make with the world population doubling every few decades anyway? We are doomed.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tumbleweed @ Jul 22 2006, 01:58 PM) [snapback]290601[/snapback]</div>

Somehow I doubt that the population trend will continue unabated, especially with a substantial decrease in ariable (sp?) land.

 

What makes you think we'll be around to fix anything?

With limited food, water, land, etc. there is going to be someone trying to take it away from someone else. What's going on in the Middle East is spit in comparison.

Too many wackos have The Bomb. Too many of us in the way.

The time to do something is now. But voters can't band together far enough to effectively throw out the problem. And the possible replacements are all just as bad. Because you can't get into the system to get close enough to get elected unless you are part of the good ol' boy problem. Or by the time you've climbed your way that far up...you've been corrupted.

Maybe we *do* need a good, civil disobedient revolution. But that's not going to happen either. Not enough consensus.

 

Aw, c'mon - Mother Nature is an expert at introducing designer plagues, ones that take out a vast swath of the earth's population. Give it a while, it'll happen again, despite the advances in modern medicine. If Ebola or one of its brethren mutates to the point that it doesn't kill off its carriers before they can spread it farther, it'll be "interesting" for a while. Then the global warming or global cooling, or ozone hole or lack thereof, or cyclamates causing cancer or not, or whatever the next "panic du jour" happens to be, will become moot. The next panic-monger's fifteen minutes (or years) of fame will just be another Chicken-Little moment we can all laugh about a decade later. (Cynical old booger? Me?)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jul 25 2006, 11:41 PM) [snapback]292390[/snapback]</div>

I don't believe we're doomed, but neither do I believe in fairytales. I'm doing something about it in my own small way, knowing full well I'm being laughed at by some and quietly praised by others. Maybe the revolution we need isn't political, but economic. As 'consumers', our dollars are counted a little more closely than our votes, and collectively, we have more power than we know. Power isn't given, it's taken.