Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Climate Change?

It seems to me that we could seriously just pull "global warming" and even "climate change" completely off the table.

If you look hard enough, you can find arguments both ways, for and against, either supposition. What you will be unable to find, however, is any intelligent argument for continuing to pour pollutants into our air, water, and soil. Yet all of the people arguing against the possibility of global warming or climate change are arguing for polluting.

The earth is, at least for now, the only planet we have. It somewhat behooves us to look after our ability to survive on it. Seriously, we are not going to do anything, short of all out nuclear war, that would seriously and adversely affect this planet, at least on a geological time scale. The planet will bounce back from any damage we do to it.

The problem is, it will take eons, and we, the human race, can be seriously and adversely affected by our own actions. In fact, we already are. Asthma cases are on the rise, especially in urban, high pollution areas. Skin cancer is rampant.

So let us set aside this notion, however relevant, of global warming. Let us, instead, worry about pollution. If we cut the pollutants, it will affect climate change anyway.

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