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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Interesting, neko!
I was waiting for your response to this thread, you totally surprised me, I thought you would have contributed to the 'ecology' part.  |
It didn't feel like I had anything new to contribute to the ecology part of the thread. HarryT and others pretty much had my position covered already. I suppose I could post links to any number of pages which explain the most common global warming myths, but those who are most vehemently on the other "side" of this debate probably wouldn't read or believe them anyway. The only thing I'll point out is that many of the US "captains of industry" would actually like the US government to implement the Kyoto protocols and take other steps on global warming, because there's actually a potential for "new technology" projects like this to kick-start the US economy. (Example:
http://www.utdallas.edu/news/archive...ming-opps.html)
Regarding the religion side of the discussion, I am reminded of a scene in David Brin's
Earth in which a Jesuit (I think) points out that God's first actual command to humanity was to "name the animals." The Jesuit interprets this to represent a call to humanity to engage in science: to study the world around us, naming things and learning their natures. I think we are called to do more than that. We have the ability and power to destroy the ecosystem of our planet, or to help it. We ignore this power at the peril of ourselves and our world. If we take our power lightly, we are likely to take thoughtless actions with terrible consequences.
At this point, there are far too many of us to return to an agrarian lifestyle. We need to use our brains to get us out of this mess, or a series of catastrophies and plagues is very likely to come along and reduce the population for us.