Earth 2100
Earth 2100
I know what you are thinking: but you are wrong. Did anyone else watch this? Did it reek of propaganda to you? Paternal libertarianism? I am a little freaked out and I voted for Obama. I am reading way too many crazy quasi anti-two party government books.... argh
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DriskellHR
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Earth2100
Libertarianism? did you mean liberalism?
Propaganda? that is rather unfinished; propaganda for whom?
Wait don't telll me; you don't believe in anthropogenic global warming right? We are cutting down the trees at frightening rates. Trees convert CO2 into sugars, wood, and terpenoids. On the other side we are burning coal and oil which produces CO2. There is no brake in the system. Oh, and by the way we are living on a finite area; the earth is a sphere. There is also hard evidence that the polar ice is receding. Whether its mostly human or natural ice age end is academic. If the trend continues the earth will be able to support much fewer people than we have now.
These predictions have been made before, but Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto and Dow extended our lease, and in-so-doing made the eventual crash much more catastrophic.
Why do these scenarios piss you off
Libertarianism? did you mean liberalism?
Propaganda? that is rather unfinished; propaganda for whom?
Wait don't telll me; you don't believe in anthropogenic global warming right? We are cutting down the trees at frightening rates. Trees convert CO2 into sugars, wood, and terpenoids. On the other side we are burning coal and oil which produces CO2. There is no brake in the system. Oh, and by the way we are living on a finite area; the earth is a sphere. There is also hard evidence that the polar ice is receding. Whether its mostly human or natural ice age end is academic. If the trend continues the earth will be able to support much fewer people than we have now.
These predictions have been made before, but Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto and Dow extended our lease, and in-so-doing made the eventual crash much more catastrophic.
Why do these scenarios piss you off
Last edited by caribe on Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:27 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Caribe, you fool. Jesus won't let anything bad happen. But, if anything bad does happen, it will be after the rapture which means it will only happen to bad people like you who refuse to allow Jesus' love to wash through your heart and absolve you of all your intellectualism.
The theory of evolution is just as stupid as the theories of gravity and electromagnetism.
While watching this I felt my mood changing and I had to snap out of it. There wasn't anything there we haven't seen or heard before... but to put it in a story following the life of a woman made it more impactful to me for some reason.
btw: We started a garden a month or so ago. Good thing to know we are right on pace with the storyline.
btw: We started a garden a month or so ago. Good thing to know we are right on pace with the storyline.
Earth radius = 6371 km
90% of the earth's atmosphere by weight is found in the first 16 km from the surface.
Regulation pool ball radius = 2.86 cm.
The atmosphere scaled down to this size is a layer of 0.07 mm thick. This can be achieved pretty easily with a brush and a can of varnish.
Humanity covers the globe. Just look at images of the earth at night. Cities and settlements only have to change (in terms of green house gas content) a small volume directly above them over the course of a few decades. WE ARE DEFINITELY DOING THIS. The argument that claims that the earth is too big for little humans to change is just plain false
You don't have to be a genius to figure this out, I'm not.
90% of the earth's atmosphere by weight is found in the first 16 km from the surface.
Regulation pool ball radius = 2.86 cm.
The atmosphere scaled down to this size is a layer of 0.07 mm thick. This can be achieved pretty easily with a brush and a can of varnish.
Humanity covers the globe. Just look at images of the earth at night. Cities and settlements only have to change (in terms of green house gas content) a small volume directly above them over the course of a few decades. WE ARE DEFINITELY DOING THIS. The argument that claims that the earth is too big for little humans to change is just plain false
You don't have to be a genius to figure this out, I'm not.