Our planet is not fragile

[Anonymous]

By Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-cortez claims that "the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change." The people at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agree, saying that to avoid some of the most devastating impacts of climate change, the world must slash carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 and completely decarbonize by 2050.



Such dire warnings are not new. In 1970, Harvard University biology professor George Wald, a Nobel laureate, predicted, "Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind."



Also in 1970, Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist, predicted in an article for The Progressive, "The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next 10 years."



The year before, he had warned, "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." Despite such harebrained predictions, Ehrlich has won no fewer than 16 awards, including the 1990 Crafoord Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' highest award.



[size=150]Leftists constantly preach such nonsense as "The world that we live in is beautiful but fragile." "The third rock from the sun is a fragile oasis." "Remember that Earth needs to be saved every single day." These and many other statements, along with apocalyptic predictions, are stock in trade for environmentalists. Worse yet, this fragile-earth indoctrination is fed to the nation's youth from kindergarten through college. That's why many millennials support Rep. Ocasio-cortez.

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Let's examine just a few cataclysmic events that exceed any destructive power of mankind and then ask how our purportedly fragile planet could survive. The 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, in present-day Indonesia, had the force of 200 megatons of TNT. That's the equivalent of 13,300 15-kiloton atomic bombs, the kind that destroyed Hiroshima in the Second World War.



Before that was the 1815 Tambora eruption, the largest known volcanic eruption. It spewed so much debris into the atmosphere that 1816 became known as the "Year Without a Summer." It led to crop failures and livestock death in the Northern Hemisphere, producing the worst famine of the 19th century. The A.D. 535 Krakatoa eruption had such force that it blotted out much of the light and heat of the sun for 18 months and is said to have led to the Dark Ages[size=200]. Geophysicists estimate that just three volcanic eruptions — Indonesia (1883), Alaska (1912) and Iceland (1947) — spewed more carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than all of mankind's activities during our entire history.[/size]



Our so-called fragile earth survived other catastrophic events, such as the floods in China in 1887, which took an estimated one million to two million lives, followed by floods there in 1931, which took an estimated one million to four million lives. What about the impact of earthquakes on our fragile earth? Chile's 1960 Valdivia earthquake was 9.5 on the Richter scale. It created a force equivalent to 1,000 atomic bombs going off at the same time. The deadly 1556 earthquake in China's Shaanxi province devastated an area of 520 miles.



Our so-called fragile earth faces outer space terror. Two billion years ago, an asteroid hit earth, creating the Vredefort crater in South Africa, which has a diameter of 190 miles. In Ontario, there's the Sudbury Basin, resulting from a meteor strike 1.8 billion years ago. At 39 miles long, 19 miles wide and nine miles deep, it's the second-largest impact structure on earth. Virginia's Chesapeake Bay crater is a bit smaller, about 53 miles wide. Then there's the famous but puny Meteor Crater in Arizona, which is not even a mile wide.



My question is: Which of these powers of nature could be duplicated by mankind? For example, could mankind even come close to duplicating the polluting effects of the 1815 Tambora volcanic eruption?



It is the height of arrogance to think that mankind can make significant parametric changes in the earth or can match nature's destructive forces. Our planet is not fragile.



Occasionally, environmentalists spill the beans and reveal their true agenda. Barry Commoner said, "Capitalism is the earth's number one enemy." Amherst College professor Leo Marx said, "On ecological grounds, the case for world government is beyond argument."

[Bricktop]

To validate their existence, the Left needs a "cause"...a pre-requisite the Right is exempted from.



Without a cause (worker's rights, women's rights, racism, the environment), the validity of leftist political policy making collapses.



So, in their sphere of ideology, if you haven't got a cause make one up. Quickly.



Socialism is built on deception and lies, and despite the fact that the Right usually meets those lies head on, and dispenses them with fact, logic and reason, they still take hold, because the Left's capacity for subversion is exemplary.

[Odinson]

When you think about it, we like the thought of an impending doom..



There is always something that is gonna wipe us out... Just waiting around the corner.

[Anonymous]

To validate their existence, the Left needs a "cause"...a pre-requisite the Right is exempted from.



Without a cause (worker's rights, women's rights, racism, the environment), the validity of leftist political policy making collapses.



So, in their sphere of ideology, if you haven't got a cause make one up. Quickly.



Socialism is built on deception and lies, and despite the fact that the Right usually meets those lies head on, and dispenses them with fact, logic and reason, they still take hold, because the Left's capacity for subversion is exemplary.

That would mean they have no interest in fixing problems..



If you fix something, you lose a cause right?

[Anonymous]

When you think about it, we like the thought of an impending doom..



There is always something that is gonna wipe us out... Just waiting around the corner.

There is some truth to that Odi..



I remember the hysteria around Y2K.

[Wazzzup]

When you think about it, we like the thought of an impending doom..



There is always something that is gonna wipe us out... Just waiting around the corner.

I suppose I am one of those in a way.  I don't think that we are going to destroy the earth, but I do think the left are going to destroy western civilization and put a totalitarian soviet type system in its place.  I wish I didn't think that though.



I agree with Dennis Prager's quote "I am far more in fear of global leftism than global warming"

[Wazzzup]

To validate their existence, the Left needs a "cause"...a pre-requisite the Right is exempted from.



Without a cause (worker's rights, women's rights, racism, the environment), the validity of leftist political policy making collapses.



So, in their sphere of ideology, if you haven't got a cause make one up. Quickly.



Socialism is built on deception and lies, and despite the fact that the Right usually meets those lies head on, and dispenses them with fact, logic and reason, they still take hold, because the Left's capacity for subversion is exemplary.

That would mean they have no interest in fixing problems..



If you fix something, you lose a cause right?

That's what happened with the racial gender stuff.  That's why we are seeing things like fake hate crimes and "micro-aggressions"



What do you do with a cause when its mostly solved but you want to keep the cause going?



In this case get hypersensitive and invent things it seems.

[Anonymous]

Someone remind me what micro aggressions are.

 

[Wazzzup]

Geophysicists estimate that just three volcanic eruptions — Indonesia (1883), Alaska (1912) and Iceland (1947) — spewed more carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than all of mankind's activities during our entire history.

I will remember that one. Great info.



I just was reading the other day that there was strong evidence  that Greenland was warmer in around 1,000 AD than it is now.  The researchers were trying to explain it, they said it might be the earths axis wobbling, or it might be solar activity or something else.



And that's when I thought what would they say is causing our current supposed warming trend?  They would say its man made probably.  But how do we know  the current supposed warming is not the earths axis wobbling, or solar activity or something else?



To me that illustrates the point-- the earth has been both cooler and warmer than now many times and it had nothing to do with man.  So IF the climate is changing now, how do we know man is at fault?

[Wazzzup]

Someone remind me what micro aggressions are.

 

indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group.

[Odinson]

Someone remind me what micro aggressions are.

 

Well take a seat and listen, girl... Papi tells you what micro-aggressions are..





Just dont start PMS´ing if you dont like what you are hearing.







Lets get started...





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ENGLISH! COMPRENDO!?





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[Anonymous]

Someone remind me what micro aggressions are.

 

indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group.

In other words, thin skin.

 

[Wazzzup]

Someone remind me what micro aggressions are.

 

indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group.

In other words, thin skin.

 

Pretty much.

[Odinson]

I start speaking in finnish to every1...





You could see the foreign looking girls spirits go through the roof when she was treated as "one of us, one of us, one of us"..

[JOE]

I completely disagree with the OP.



Our planet and its ecosystems are extremely fragile.



We are rapidly depleting our natural resources at an unsustainable rate.



Our oceans are filled with plastic, the quality of the air, the water we drink and our most precious animal and plant species are endangered.



If global warming is caused by human activity then it is merely a symptom of overpopulation.



We can't go on by overpopulating the planet.



If we're going inta the shitter its not surprising as we've added more peole yo the esrth in 60 years than even existed in 1960.



When the forums oldest member was born before that, the world population wasn't even 3 billion



Now its well over 7 billion.



We can't keep going on like this.



One day we'll hit a brick wall