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Originally Posted by blahblah454
I think humans are pretty screwed unless we populate other planets. Not everyone will die but I think a good chunk will. I think surival of the fittest will REALLY start to kick in. People who are able to live outside for extended periods without "room service" will be the best off, fit people who are healthy will be better off. People who rely on technology for everything and who sit on the computer or in front of the TV and eat nothing but take out and fast food instant stuff will be pretty much screwed.
A little saying I always like to use, I dunno if someone wrote this or if I made it up but it rings true all the same. "The earth will survive, humans wont"
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How do you figure thta the most fit of us will survive global warming?
It seems like those of us who you, you know, inside, in the air conditioning not getting skin cancer and dying from heat exhaustion who would last. If you're outside in the even warmer climate, wouldn't you be the ones to get screwed?
It's not like we have a serious water shortage or food shortage. Some one recently created a desalination process that works incredibly easily and efficiently, so there's not any serious water shortage all over the world thanks to that. I don't get why everyone's freaked out about the world ending over global warming. People live in the dessert, people live in the arctic. We adjust. If there's global warming and it's 20 degrees warmer, well, cool, move from the dessert and we'll move where we produce food to what were colder climates.
If we lose our coastal cities because water raises so much, alright, that's fine, we can adjust to that. Build further inland, build venice-esque cities. It's not the end of the world.
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No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth.
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And that line really pisses me off. We have a reporter who probably doesn't know that much about global warming and they use that "Ooooh - The Earth's sick!!!!" when people don't know that. The earth is getting warmer. Okay, humans run fevers when we're sick, but do Earth's? Can the reporter really justify making that the tagline? From my point of view it's just stupid scaremongering.