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Originally posted by mercury-hg
something about the logic "we don't have the technology at the moment, so our alternatives are (1) continue the way we have or (2) abandon civilization" seems flawed. what about another option -- (as people have attempted to express in this thread previously) industries could be gradually re-aligned to support clean(er) power/transportion sources. is definitive proof needed before we take action to repair/prevent damage to the environment? had we always waited until scientific theories were fully proven and fleshed out, we'd still be gnawing on raw wooly mamouth meat. what we have now is strong evidence that global warming exists and no reason to act in willfull ignorance of those findings.
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Now mercury based on what you said, we should have gone out of our way to cause global warming since we had global COOLING from 1945-1979, please see the above post by mojo on that subject.
As for my ban civilization post, that was based on 2wolves post about cities disrupting the local weather pattern. My responce to that is of course 'no shit'.