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Originally posted by Dreamer128:
In this field, the result of any probe into the cause of global warming seems to be mainly determined by the party that payed for the research to begin with.
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All the more reason for us stop looking externally for answers and start looking internally. There's big bucks riding on the outcome of this debate. Enough that i'm not really willing to trust anything said by anyone who stands to be on a winning (or losing) side. Why do people need to flock to a banner for this?
Gore, for all i can see, is giving it %110 to stay in whatever race he thinks he's running. Global Warming appears to be the one big acorn in a smeggin' acorn shower and he's using it as the backbone of his argument. Why Global warming? It's the one effect of our fossil fuel munching habit that can concievably have short term, drastic consequences for a very large number of people. He wants to win this debate before he dies, after all, and to do that he needs lots of little chickens running around, shouting and pointing at the sky. Or maybe he's
not got backing from whichever companies own the rights to the next big renewable energy and is just using his acorn along with his "almost was" status as a pretty clever way of selling something to the whole world and looking like a good guy at the same time. Or maybe he's the genuine article and is truely concerned about the direction we're heading and hasn't given up after losing his one big chance at doing something about it. Heh, if that's true then it's a damn shame he missed his shot. Not that i think for a second that anyone openly waving the alternative energy flag could've made it that far in the US of all places. Much less retain it once there. Nope, sorry, if he's declared himself a figurehead and is waving his name as the banner for saving the world, then it's small wonder that people don't flock to it. It's just too easy to imagine the conflicts of interest.
And in the blue corner, we have the companies that own the big, bad, CO2 spewing, energy technologies. I'm not even going to bother. I must admit that i was surprised to see people on this thread actually jump to defend an institution that stands to gain as much as fossil fuel companies do. That is until i gave it a little more thought and i reasoned: It's not the companies people are defending, just their own lifestyle that is too bothersome to change. Or their own faith in humanity's infinite wisdom which is too blind and strong to deny. Perhaps it's also impossible to acknowledge an addiction to fossil fuel without also denying that pursuits in the name of freedom and liberty weren't actually made in search of it. Perhaps still, others may just be jumping onto whatever bandwagon happens to be travelling in an opposite direction than the one carrying an eternal opponent of past battles (without looking at how far the road ahead of it travels).
In fairness to you Larry, i'll watch the doco. I'll even put in an extra special effort to ensure that i'll weigh it on its own merit with as little bias as possible. But i'll tell you now, my mind is made up. For i do not need anyone weilding the weapon of scientific fact to argue, for or against, what i believe to be true. We're not so dumb that we can't destroy this earth. We're not so special that we should. We're not so smart that we can see all the ways in which we are killing it and we're sure as shite not wise enough to deny that we are.
For what it's worth, i'm not so sure about climate change myself. Part of a greater cycle of seasons or whatever. Every conclusion we draw about our Earth is based upon what we've seen, learned and failed to disprove in the few years that we've been here. I'd like to think that we haven't been here long enough that we shouldn't do what we can to guarantee we learn a little more. We
know we've got the technology and the smarts to make all sorts of changes for the better, but people and nations alike can't make it happen for their own politics and economies. Two very petty things when compared to our Earth.
[ 03-25-2007, 08:46 PM: Message edited by: Sever ]