Luddly Neddite
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- Sep 14, 2011
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When one actually looks back at the history of the planet and all it has been through, both natural and unnatural disaster, and how it has bounded right back into the beautiful blue world it is every time, it is almost laughable that anyone could think the little bit of pollution we generate could seriously harm it.
For decades, man has actually been cutting back on pollution through better ways of scrubbing the air, etc., so out of 4.3 billion years, man's impact on the planet amounted to about 80 years, or about 1.86 X 10^-6% of its lifetime (0.00000186% the Earth's total life).
Put another way, the Earth has been free of man's pollution for 99.99999814% of its life, been through volcanoes, crustal ruptures, super-volcanoes, asteroid impacts, but it took man's meager factories and automobiles of the 20th century to send it over the brink.
Until today, I've never paid any attentionn to your posts but --
If you had used paragraph breaks (I inserted them for you), the first one is nonsense and really ignorant.
The second paragraph is true. If you look at how much damage we did and how we have turned much of it around, its pretty impressive. OTOH, there is still so much to do. If you ever drank from freely running rivers or creeks, you know that we can no longer do that.
The third paragraph nails it.
Not only have we done this damage, we are doing more every day. Worse is that one of our political parties is rules by the amount of profit they're 1-2% owners get.
The cheeto is their (pardon the pun) their fair haired boy. THAT'S why he will okay any drilling, any place, without ever considering the science.
All drilling that is done to day is excess. We will never use what we already have. Think about that and do some research.