'100 months (8.33 years) to save the planet'

'100 months (8.33 years) to save the planet'

An alarming prospect - or just an alarming headline ?

The subject has been quoted as being 'the new religion with heretics who question it being demonised'.

So at the risk of being cast as the devil himself - I open the debate with an alternative view, that it is currently fasionable for our politicians to join in a global (and vote winning) stratagy of a commitment to cutting carbon emmisions, at enormous cost to the british econnomy, impacting on each and everyones standard of living now and for generations to come (if indeed we do save the planet and there are generations to come)


I offer the following link - as further reading :

The REAL inconvenient truth: Zealotry over global warming could damage our Earth far more than climate change | Mail Online

This look slike it could get to be a good debate, i will watch the thread develop with interest :)

Scares the pants off me knowing the earth is dying, but what were doing to save the planet is it too little too late.. although they are saying that the ozone layer is starting to repair itself makes you wonder if its a round trip were on really :D

reading up about it 1st then i might comment

Very interesting article Lion.

I think global warming is not the only issue here, I was also trying to get across that the earth is over populated and the Earth just can not sustain what we are sapping out of it, obviously global warming and the ozone etc plays a small part of lots of serious things which are happening and have been happening for years and years. (take a look at my article in the THG Magazine)

Nigel Lawson said that there were scares in the 60's and 70's. Obviously the Earth is changing, if you look at the Earth thousands of years ago the UK was actually joined to Europe etc.

I think the point is we are more knowledgable as a species now and we are understanding our planet more and the concerns of the scientists and your every day joe blogs is noticing changes more so now and the prospect of the Earth enventually dying - this might not well be in our life time, but if certain things continue, ei. population growth, sapping the ground of oil, coal etc, cutting down forests - destroying other species habitats we are obviously speeding up the process of the Earth dying and we need to do something about it now before it is too late.

As far as the governments go and finances - screw them - I don't care about the economy - perhaps I should, but as long as I have a roof over my head and food on the table and I'm alive, does it really matter what materialistic things I have.

The climate is changing - thats a fact and like we have hear the rich get richer and the poor get poorer the rich countries are getting richer and killing off the poor countries and their people, as also the weather is dryer and people in the far east, africa and asia are dying from starvation and disease.

Another fact is as humans we look after our own and ignore everything else.

At the end of the day we all have our own opinions and will interpret what we see in the press, another prime example of this is the bible, humans interpret the bible in different ways and this is why there are so many religions.

You are right Chewy – there is more to this issue than global warming. The points you raise are important and valid and I only put forward the Nigel Lawson article as a starting point for discussion, and to offer an opposing point of view.

Personally, I am not at all worried that global warming could cause the extinction of the human species. I think that is exceedingly unlikely. The human race has survived huge climate fluctuations many times in the past, so although the current global warming debate may cause alarm and economic hardship to some, it doesn't in my opinion represent a danger of human extinction.

I do agree with you Chewy, that by far the greater worry is the effect that we humans are causing to the planet as a whole. Take technology as an example.

Advances in technology over the last 100 years have been staggering. Technology is great, think of the things we take for granted today, that our grandparents could not even have dreamt of. With even more technology will come the ability to do even more things - more easily. Most of these advances have been beneficial for human survival. Human life expectancy for the world as a whole has risen dramatically over the last century, resulting in the human population reaching record levels, and continuing to rise, but there is always a price to pay. Pollution and the destruction of the planets natural resources are just the start. More worrying still is that technology also allows us to be a much greater threat to each other and those we share this planet with.

Humans are the only species that has developed the technology to create weapons of mass destruction that, should they be deployed, are capable of totally destroying humanity. It is only the will of those same humans that prevent this doomsday scenario from happening. (Seems a bit fragile to me)

We also have the ability to cause the death of large numbers of other species. Many species now face much greater threats to their existence than they have in the past because, for our own benefit, we humans have developed the powerful ability to change their environment, controlling their numbers, and even destroying them.

Today we have the ability to change many things, some for good, and some for bad - We are better informed today than ever before. With mediums such as the internet we can read virtually everything that is written on any subject you can think of. Ultimately it’s the people who will decide what needs changing – It’s up to us all to do it.