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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Thanks for thinking about my kids man, I'm glad someone is thinking of the children here.
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it's not so much that i'm thinking of the kids as that i believe in returning things in the same, if not better, condition as i recieved them.
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I'm sure the symbolic and totally useless gesture of lowering some human created CO2 emmisions and wrecking the global economy to do so will help them greatly.
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i doubt if i could find the numbers again, since i don't remember where i saw them (but i'll give it the old college try and edit if i can find it), but basically humans are responsible for something like 500x what the earth normally puts out through volcano's, etc. we don't contribute a negligable amount of co2.
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I suppose this is what frusterates me so much about the alarmest mindset on this. Results don't matter but motives are what is important. Doing SOMETHING, even if it makes a problem worse, is ok as long as you do it for the right reasons. Education, welfare, the enviroment, its all about feeling good, not good results.
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i suppose what frustrates me most is that the people who seem to claim nothing is wrong or that we don't have anything to do with it are usually backed up by science funded by the people who have the most to lose from policy changes geared at protecting the environment.
motives are very important. doing nothing because of motives is just as bad as doing something because of motives. it's just a matter of whose motives are better. i don't see reducing co2 making things worse. and that could and should be done for the right reasons. if you really want to bring welfare, education, etc, into this, start a new thread. otherwise, keep the threadjacks out of it. (not that you're necissarily putting it there to threadjack, but one mention of something unrelated can snowball).