and actually it has to start from the government and big companies bc global warming is still gonna happen whether we turn off our taps when we brush our teeth or not !!
We don't want to go to other planets to escape what we did to Earth - we want to go because the chances of all life on Earth being destroyed is steadily rising and there is nothing humans can do about it. If we start a colony on another planet then even if Earth is destroyed humans will survive.
So true. Whats scares me is the fact that we have done so much damage in such a short period of time. The earth is about 4 billion years old, humans have been on the planet for about 200,000 years (give or take) and we have been using fossil fuels for around 200 years which is 0.1% of our time on the planet, 0.000005% of the age of the planet. We have done so much damage that we must stop using fossil fuels immediately which means no more cars, aeroplanes, electricity etc....in short back to the stone age and even then I fear we are probably too late!
The damage we've done is totally reverse-able. We have yet to hit the point where the greenhouse effect will run into a loop. However, going to places we've never been is a part of human nature and doing things that noone thinks is worth it is our instinct. A hundred years ago nobody liked electricity calling it a magic trick that had no real future. A few people disagreed and now I can talk to thousands of people. Just because you can't see a reason for it now doesn't mean that it won't be an amazing discovery.
Plus if a large enough asteroid hits Earth we are totally fucked if we haven't gotten to other planets.
I do hope you are correct as this scares the willies out of me. Is the carbon problem reversible because that's another thing that's killing us isn't it?
I do hope you are correct as this scares the willies out of me. Is the carbon problem reversible because that's another thing that's killing us isn't it?
I do hope you are correct as this scares the willies out of me. Is the carbon problem reversible because that's another thing that's killing us isn't it?
Oh ok. I just think this is a very important subject these days. Many years ago, we all thought the world was going to end because of atomics but that pales into insignificance when compared with global warming. It's the proportionality of damage done in the short space of time that really worries me and I think that too many people are either ignoring this element of the argument in favour of a quick fix political solution (more taxes on fuel, wind farms etc) or are hiding their heads in the sand.
Plus if a large enough asteroid hits Earth we are totally fucked if we haven't gotten to other planets.