Post #243611 by tiki mick on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 10:12 AM

Well, as I said, that is mostly true. What we should want to do is postpone it as much as possible, not hasten it. If we know of a way to forstall something, we should investigate it.

Take your own body, for example. Let's say you have heart disease. Chances are, you were destined to have heart disease no matter what. But if your Dr. says to cut down on salt and fatty foods to stem the naturally occuring heart disease, then why would you ignore your Dr. and start consuming salt like crazy? You wouldn't.

Perhaps we can do nothing to stop glabal warming. The thing is, most if not all scientists are saying it's happening, and we are helping speed it up. Why the resistance to science? Why do we question Scientists so much, and so vehemently? Do we honestly think what they are working,producing and investigating is not in our best interests?

If a family member is murdered, with few clues, it is forensic scientist that will solve it using chemistry and biology. The actually detective can only do so much, but the foresnsic scientist can prove something without a doubt (Unless you are O.J., of course).

I believe in prayer. I do it all the time, but if my sister is murdered I will not rely just on it to find out who did it. I want to know exactly, and it will be a scientist who tells me.

Beyond just the issue of global warming is the practical and aethestic and immediate: I don't want to live in a cesspool. I don't want to breath smog. I don't wan't rivers polluted, trees cut down and factories built on the land they once occupied. I don't want to see dirty plastic bottles floating near the beach. I remember all too well the smog alerts when I was a child. There were days you just did not want to go out of your house. It was because of smog laws on vehicle emmisions that the air is a bit better. People like that 51% of today did everything in thier power to fight those laws.

I am an environmentalist. 51% of you treat your aquariums with more care then you want our government and business to treat our own fishbowl.

There are religious texts which tell us we have "dominion" over the earth. other translations of the same text use the word "stewardship" and there is a big difference.

Anyway, I think I am heading into the possibility that I may insult people with these words, so I am gonna stop now.