Is global climate change man made?
@happytails (299)
September 29, 2015 4:31pm CST
Of course it is, or at least I think so. Look at what we have done. Cut down the forests, destroyed top soil, embankments used to hold back floods, polluted the ocean....to name a few.....and of course it's going to change things.
I don't know, what do you think?
As the world has become more and more industrialized we have been using up more and more of the world's natural resources. The idea that this has no link on the rising CO2 levels and recent climate patterns is committing ourselves to a life of ignorance. 90% of climate scientists agree that human factors are contributing to climate change. Measurements show that the temperature is rising faster than it has than in the last 650,000 years. Even if we go through short "cycles" of temperature ups and downs, there are a lot of places that are already being affected by an obvious continuing warmth. There are hundreds (thousands?) of glaciers that are disappearing all over the world and it is estimated that the arctic will have little to no ice WITHIN MY LIFETIME. WHAT? The idea that SEVEN BILLION people living on this earth and driving cars, trucking and boating and flying around is having NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER is absolute bull.
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@munhozmib (3836)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
30 Sep 15
Greetings, Debra.
The big point in here is that the climate change is not caused by humans, but it is a natural process of our planet. It is something that could already be seen by scientists a while ago. The climate change is something natural and Earth will go through it. The BAD thing, though, is that we are speeding up the process insanely. It should take hundreds of thousands of years to happen, but we're making it happen in decades, in centuries. We're really finishing ourselves off.
Yes, with the climate change the Earth will suffer. Almost all life forms will be damaged and there will be a huge unbalance. But in the end, we'll end up not destroying the Earth, but our own race. Earth will still have a suitable environment for new species to live, we're the ones going down.
The saddest part is that we are intelligent. We could REVERT the process if we looked into it. Instead, we're using our intelligence to speed it up. Ironical cheers to us!
Respectfully.
@happytails (299)
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30 Sep 15
Yep exactly!!! You are right, that's what I mean...we are indirectly responsible for the process moving at an alarming speed!
And you are also right that we could change it, back it up, slow it down, but will we? Why no! We are too arrogant for that! We would have to admit we are wrong and that we have to share in the responsibility!
Thanks @munhozmib for responding!
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