Our World Today: Better or Worse? Page 2

Started by Sheruda Kachinuki August 6th, 2008 8:38 PM
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Crystal Clair

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Of course maybe people have said what I wanted to say but I feel like contributing.

Really, it varies. Technology, health, society, and communication has definitely improved. People can have surgeries if they need them, we have chemicals in our tap water to help our teeth from decaying, we can now befriend someone in Australia if we're in America, black people are no longer in slavery, and sexism isn't nearly as bad as it's been. Women can now get good jobs and no longer have to be confined to the kitchen like how that internet meme goes. And back in the old days, you were either rich or poor. There was barely a middle class. And back in the old days, disease and famine were a serious issue. Oh yeah, and if you wanted to say you were homosexual, you'd not only be an outcast but sometimes you would be killed or tortured.
And the life expectancy was a lot lower. Go back to the medieval days and you'd be lucky to see forty.

However, there's also the reverse, even if it's by only a decade. Because the country is now more economically conservative, no longer do you find fancy buildings with admirable detail being built, instead it's just for function only. People used to dress so fancy and nice back then but now they dont have time to make their own clothes so they just wear boring old mass produced clothes. Decency has declined too. If anyone has seen that infamous picture of two photos of old and new beach outfits, you'd know what I'm talking about. Back then, you'd probably be arrested for wearing a thong on the beach but now people do it all the time. Little kids are also growing up faster and starting to dress like prostitutes when they're only eight. And in the 1920s, men wore suits casually. Nowadays they'll wear any crap they can find. And a common belief is that tv and music are declining as we approach the future years.

So I say live in an old house with your laptop, and admire the old artists who worked so hard on details while using a program like photoshop to express yourself. Combine the good of the old and the new.

Guillermo

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I also think that it isn't a waste, but still we spend to much on going to outer space.

We are searching for a new place to live on when the sun blows up and sucks everything up, like a black hole does, this is said to happen in about 500 million years
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http://www.richardb.us/nasa.html

We appear to spending lots more on old people who are going to die soon anyway. Of course, what's worth investing in is subjective, but you can see that NASA really doesn't get that much money, compared to other industries and programs that don't involve rockets.

Also, we're not trying to expand to more planets because of a black hole or that our sun will eventually go supernova: Earth only has so many resources and so much area for people (as well as animals and plants) to live in. Unless we want to start looking like Brazil and build shoddy buildings on top of each other.

Guillermo

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Yes, what you said is partially true Megera, but isn't finding more resources for people and animals and so forth, just much like going to another planet because sooner or later something will happen? It isn't JUST because are resources will run out, that is what i am trying to say here xD
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It means "retribution" for short-punishment for all the greedy things we have done to the world Our Creator gave us.
We are making our own doomsday.One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it...


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People, it doesn't just mean you Megera. Millions die a day because of pollution in the air, especially in China.

I think this is just becoming a total war over what is right and what isn't xD
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I thought so, also i would say MANY people plan their own death with EVERY bit of rubbish they throw on the ground xD
Well said *Dark*Master, Well said-nice choice of words...


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Thank you, i hate having to go to dramatic words to get my point through, but this is an important matter, some people just don't think or care about the planet now days xD
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This last page has just given me a headache. The only points I have seen made is that we spend too much on space exploration (Which we don't, listen to megera on this one) and that we are destroying our world with polution, which is only partly true. As mentioned about china, this is because the country creates significantly more pollution than one its size should. However a large quantity of the UN have belong to a program to reduce their emmissions (Notable countries that didnt sign the contract include china and america). The rest of the world is reducing it's emmissions, but as usual children are seeing what is being portrayed in the media and assuming it's a worldwide problem. As an example, this website give detailed information on the pollution levels over key areas of great britain- One of the nations that signed the afformentioned contract. It notes the key greenhouse gasses and how high their levels are. And it reads "Low" for every single one of them in every single area. Yes china and similar countries are in poor shape, but that by no means makes this an international crisis- That time has been and passed for the majority of the world. So no self-made doomsday for us yet.

And speaking of doomsday, religious references hold no relevence in a thread about what humanity has done :|
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Thank you, i hate having to go to dramatic words to get my point through, but this is an important matter, some people just don't think or care about the planet now days xD
Your Welcome!
Anyway your right,people make it hard for themselves...
At least we did our part though!


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Yes, Australia is trying it's hardest to keeps it population down, as it is taking ANY illegal entry into Australia ( immigrants ) and putting them into a Detention Center until they fill out some stuff to become an Australian citizen xD
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I also think that it isn't a waste, but still we spend to much on going to outer space.

We are searching for a new place to live on when the sun blows up and sucks everything up, like a black hole does, this is said to happen in about 500 million years
To be frank we are spending way too LITTLE on the space program than we should...
If you guys didnt notice were spending billions a year on this "little" thing called the "War on Terror" which is absolutely going nowhere, and now we even squandered the goodwill that we received from the International Community after 9/11 which we could have used more wisely (like maybe strengthen International ties or somethin') I mean you can't go to another country without them blaming you for the worlds problems...(I mean they trusted the American People to do the right thing as the relatively only remaining Superpower in the world)....

And did you not know the bountiful miracles that the Space Program has borne fruit??? From instantaneous communication around the world to simple things like the braces that people are getting...

But it isnt a worldwide problem, that was my point :|

The majority of the world has gotten its pollution levels right down, the focus is now on keeping it down. However this focus is what is making people thing it is still a much larger problem than it actually is.
Yes that is true... But when the two biggest polluters in the world (Us here in the US and the growing economies in China ...and India) Don't want to scale back on basic things such as greenhouse gases (we can't even sign the freckin' Kyoto Treaty!) it's still going to affect people worldwide...we are living on the same boat you know...no matter what other people say...

Also I've read Crosstime Traffic and we're going to start shotting ourselves up by 2050 if we can't use our resources wisely or find some other source...due to the lack of it....

Oh well...it's me ranting again....sorry...

Guillermo

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For what exactly? we didn't do anything we are just stating what we find to be true, what's wrong with that?

Also just because we look around and it is nice ( most of the time ) that doesn't mean we aren't facing pollution problems.
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