The end is near!

[cloud nine]

Despite the efforts of many orginations worldwide, the global threat to the security of our combined ecosystems is nearly beyond the scope of human comprehension... its just that people don't like to think about it.

On a daily basis we destroy our world... and here are some examples:
(Remember, this happens every day)

Per person, (in the US, alone) 115 pounds of trash per day that goes into landfills or incenerators and eventually ends up in our air & water.

For each gallon of gas burned, 19.4 POUNDS of C02 are released.

Commonly used pesticides contaminate our water supply and poison marine life.

Mercury emmissions are exprected to rise, despite lobbists attempts to slow the release of this deadly substance by coal power plants, thanks to the bush administration.

The bush administration has approved of land seizures in national parks for logging & mining companies... weren't these supposed to be protected, DO NOT TOUCH areas of our "Beautiful" country" ? What... we need forests of oil dereks and tree stumps... is that what bush considers pretty?

The rain forests aren't expected to last more then 40 years, at our current rate. Which is scarry, considering the Amazon rain forest alone accounts for as much as 20% of the earths viable oxygen supply.

Where the hell will our clean air and water come from then? Will it be goverment-issued? Will it be delivered via an aluminum can, ala spaceballs? Was Robin Williams right, "Live on Broadway", when he said "in 20 years, water will be worth more then gold"... i don't doubt it.

i'm going to move to the amazon, become a medicine man, and say fuck the modern world!

[psychoDiablo]

hey, do you think the Earth is alive? Like, do you think Mother Nature is pissed at us? Think she'll get us back?

i'm just wondering if it'll happen when I'm alive..

[cloud nine]

i think this planet has some sort of conceiousness, and i know it will spring back from the taint humanity will undoubtly leave on earth's surface... but this planet will endure long after our remains are no longer radio-active.

[psychoDiablo]

imagine back in the dinorsaur days. You think we have tall mountains and huge rivers and some amazing tropical rainforests now. Imagine back then, there is no pollution. All the shit left over all over the place, just helps that grass grow. There was a cycle where everything used everything.
ha, think of the mountain valleys then! grand canyon shit, probably bigger than that. damn, the water is probably all clean too.

but now we have a bunch of crap we don't need. why the hell did we make all this crap? what's the point? paper or plastic mother fuckers.

[Liquid]

Dont forget some Disasters such as chernobyl (http://www.chernobyl.co.uk/) or when tankers spill oil because they couldnt put just one more layer to the hull. (http://www.geocities.com/theneutralplanet/transcripts/season3/3ACV05.html) Oh the fools! If only they'd built it with 6001 hulls! When will they learn? Mother nature does protect itself by helping in chlorinating the gene pool (http://www.darwinawards.com/)

[Dill Doe]

The end is undoubtably here. Think of it... since the start of humanity, something at one time or another has worked to get us to our own extinction. The human race as we know it will kill itself off. This world will not work no matter what happens... it was all meant to end 1 time or another. All the psycics and prophets out there point to this century in time as "The End". Something long and catastrophic will result and therefore causing the end to our humanity. IF humans achieve colonizing on another clean planet only then we have a way to survive forever. The term "eternal life" as quoted by jesus himself has a meaning. One of the readings i seen said after human kind has lost paradise, there will be 1000 years of peace that follows.
Ok, i mean all of these terrorist attacks, tsunamis, economic failures, earthquakes, natural disasters and global warming are only a FRACTION of what will happen to our world.
Someday... if given enough time, we will kill ourselves off, and the time of our end is now. We are never safe, just accept life as u have it.

[psychoDiablo]

that 1000 years of peace sounds damn good.

[Savage_Nature]

It's humourus really... there is nothing you can do to stop what has been set in motion. We as a race have basically taught ourselves to kill, destroy, maim, burn, expend... We constantly take and take from the planet, never give anything back (exceptions include poison gases, garbage, contaminated water and the occaisional foriegn animal to help 'control' pests)

We as a people are a virus, we are the planet's cancer. There is no cure. You have to cut it out and kill it. Otherwise you will die. The planet is basically clinically dead. It's one last hope is that we kill ourselves off. Start to devour ourselves instead of It. Well, we are well along the way aren't we?

There is absolutley nothing that can be done at this point in time, merely ride out your life and enjoy what you can make of it. I say there is nothing to be done for this one fact:

We take the easy way out.

Wether it be throwing a can in the garbage because the recycle bin is another five steps away, or be it that we continue to use resources-to the point of exhaustion. All so we can live easier.

Personally I am going to start a career, get a wife, have kids (as cruel as it is bringing them into this world) and die from a tradgic (insert extreme sport here) accident at age 75. Because any older and I would start to become feeble and not be able to do the things I enjoy in life.

Eventually the world ends, but I wont be around to see it, nor can I prevent it, so why worry?

[Demento]

We as a people are a virus, we are the planet's cancer. There is no cure. You have to cut it out and kill it. Otherwise you will die. The planet is basically clinically dead. It's one last hope is that we kill ourselves off. Start to devour ourselves instead of It. Well, we are well along the way aren't we?

Thank you Agent Smith...

[Yugoloth]

Look on the bright side...

Soon, we may be creating hydrogen using solar-powered artificial photosynthesis, and using that hydrogen to run our cars. Hydrogen-powered cars give off only steam as a byproduct.

Our electricity could be coming from cold fusion reactors that merge lighter elements into heavier ones, which could then in turn be used in industry.

Construction techniques using steel frames and concrete siding are coming into more widespread use now, so as the supply of harvestable wood dwindles, those will play a larger role in new buildings. Steel and concrete are both recyclable.

[cloud nine]

There are alot of positive technological advances our world has been experiencing, and although i appriciate your optimisim, Yugoloth, I don't think you understand the timeframe we're dealing with.

I read sometime in '98 about a "new" carborator this person had developed that can get (any vehicle its installed in) up to 40mpg. Did this product go to help slow emmissions and fuel consumption? No... a major oil company pressured him into selling them the patent.

I read in Popular Science about a year ago that this guy in Cali made a car that runs off grass clippings... and thats the last i've heard of it.

Sure... there are TONS of technological advances that could help save our planet little by little... but unfortunatly this is a world controlled by politicians and corporations... and the only thing that sways them is money, or a good ole fashoned violent overthrow of the government (hint hint) =p

...their excuse would probably be: it would cost a hell of alot more money to change all our standards, systems, and ways then it would be to just continue blantantly lyinging to the public and continue doing what their doing till they die, cause then it won't matter!

The only concievable way we could save this planet in time to save the human race is if the countrys in question (USA, England, GB, Japan, Mexico, China, Russia... and EVERY country that belongs to the rainforest) had either:
A, violent (or non) overthrow (or reconstruction) of the government by non-corporatly-corrupted citizens who want change and are tired of being lied to by these paid off political puppets.
Or B, We do it fight club style and just reset world debt... then the countrys of the world would have to start from 0, there would be alot of chaos, and civilization would rise from the ashes, born again... and hopefully this time, with the mindset "this is our ONLY planet... we'd better take care of it!"


yea, i'm a dreamer... or am i a free-world, nu-age, renegade "politician"?

[Dill Doe]

And another thing i wanna mention is that if we use all the resources on the earth, the earth will die. Just imagine how peaceful and perfect the world would be without humans. The dinosaurs died, brought peace, and its gonna happen to us too.
Every country will be pushed into war eventually because of the terrorist countries and China getting too overcrowded.

[Shadowinsane2]

You know enventually, the earth will stop spining...And also the sun will go into supernova and blow up...So Even if everything does get fixed the earth is still FUCKED.

[MystikA]

except that the sun doesn't have the potential to become a supernova.

[cloud nine]

i'm not worried about whats going to happen to the planet in the next thouand + years, because humanity will either be extinct or have evolved past such pointless ventures as "religion".

This planet won't die... however the atmosphere will probably change to compensate for all the toxic shit we've been pumping into it... my assumption is that unless we start some DRASTIC change in the next, say hundred years, the earth will probably have the same atmospheric make-up of Jupiter or Mercury... way too damn toxic n' hot to sustain any form of life (that we are currently aware of)

but our goverments and the majority of society in the world as we know it doesn't give two shits about the enviornment... they don't care about tomorrow... they only care about how much gold they can line their pockets with today, and how comfortably or conviently they can acomplish it.

[Demento]

Ill be dead by the time the Earth dies, so I dont care. :rolleyes:

[MystikA]

by the time the earth dies, we will have already colonized another planet or moon--preferably mars, europa, or titan (ordered by likelihood).

the terraformation of mars is likely to happen sooner than you think.

[Shadowinsane2]

Um...Wow...Terraformation...That's a biggy, I'm going to get on google now so I can find out what the hell you are talking about.

[psychoDiablo]

Um...Wow...Terraformation...That's a biggy, I'm going to get on google now so I can find out what the hell you are talking about.

there was no need for that post.

or this one.

haha

[Demento]

Terraformation = the formation of terra's.

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