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Biden admin moving forward with light bulb bans in coming weeks
Gyro:
Yes, I'm not sure if it was a David Attenborough* quote... 'No need to worry about the Earth, it will be just fine - It's the Human race that needs to worry'.
Edit: * Actually, I think it was Prof Iain Stewart.
Simon:
--- Quote from: Gyro on April 07, 2023, 10:24:38 am ---Yes, I'm not sure if it was a David Attenborough quote... 'No need to worry about the Earth, it will be just fine - It's the Human race that needs to worry'.
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Quite, I mean sets not forget that the first organisms on earth did not breath oxygen, then for some random reason they started producing it themselves and it was poisonous to them.
coppice:
--- Quote from: Gyro on April 07, 2023, 10:24:38 am ---Yes, I'm not sure if it was a David Attenborough* quote... 'No need to worry about the Earth, it will be just fine - It's the Human race that needs to worry'.
Edit: * Actually, I think it was Prof Iain Stewart.
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I think it was originally George Carlin, but the wording was a little more aggressive.
Simon:
--- Quote from: coppice on April 07, 2023, 03:00:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gyro on April 07, 2023, 10:24:38 am ---Yes, I'm not sure if it was a David Attenborough* quote... 'No need to worry about the Earth, it will be just fine - It's the Human race that needs to worry'.
Edit: * Actually, I think it was Prof Iain Stewart.
--- End quote ---
I think it was originally George Carlin, but the wording was a little more aggressive.
--- End quote ---
I've independently said it many times to try and explain to people that we are not chasing some abstract goal that they must pay for against their will. This is about our survival. We rely on a particular range of habitats, if they change, as adaptable as we may be we won't cope, or least most of us won't which is the scarier option.
coppice:
--- Quote from: Simon on April 07, 2023, 05:34:02 pm ---I've independently said it many times to try and explain to people that we are not chasing some abstract goal that they must pay for against their will. This is about our survival. We rely on a particular range of habitats, if they change, as adaptable as we may be we won't cope, or least most of us won't which is the scarier option.
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There are people who have this religious notion that anything we do to change the planet is bad. I guess because this world that incessantly wants to kill you until you protect yourself from its excesses is seen as some kind of natural perfection we can only harm. If you look at things from a human centric point of view, far more people die from excessive cold than excessive heat. So, is a modicum of global warming a good or a bad thing? Species are currently dying off at a fairly rapid pace, but increased CO2 in the atmosphere appears to be increasing the world's plant bio-mass. So, there more living stuff around, but of a narrower range of species. Is that a good or a bad thing?
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