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Our World Today: Better or Worse?

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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
 
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 :|
 
I agree with Gofre a bit here, China has a massive population, which in some cases creates massive problems, planet wise.
 
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, 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
 
Hmm...

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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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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...

Gofre said:
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.
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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...
 
Yes, a bit weird question.. our world? just look at your surroundings and try to analyze.
please don't be rude guys, i will report you.
 
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.
 
That was off-topic xD

And also i didn't do anything to be reported, the mods won't care, i haven't done anything xD

It was said in some kind of article that the sun will blow up and become a dark hole kind of thing xD i wonder if it is true?
 
Yes, when the sun has expended all of its energy it will collapse inwards on itself and become a white dwarf- But before that it will become a red giant. In about a billion years the sun's temperature will have increased to the point that the earth is no longer hospitable, so we don't need to worry about running out of heat :)
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Yes, and i am trying to get through the fact that we should be finding a way to either give the planet a shield against the heat, and/or for when the sun blows up they can make an Artificial sun xD
 
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Yes, and i am trying to get through the fact that we should be finding a way to either give the planet a shield against the heat, and/or for when the sun blows up they can make an Artificial sun xD
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I'm sorry, but both of those are terrible ideas. First off, it is physically impossible to defend against the heat, it just cannot be done. And even if it can be done, humanity will die out anyway. Perpetual darkness means no plants, which equals a huge dip in food and oxygen source. It also mean we have nothing providing the earth with heat, it would freeze over straight away.

Next off, I really hope you're joking when you said an artificial sun. I don't know if this gets taught nowadays, but look at the scale:
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There is no way in hell that humans could bring together enough energy to create anything close to a sun.

So basically, there is no way humanity is going to survive this. All we can do is survive in the meantime, and hope some scientific breakthrough comes about to transport any number of use to a less ill-fated galaxy. We have a few million years yet, so it's all good =]
 
By that time (1 billion years) I'm sure mankind will have the technology to colonise other galaxies and move away from Earth to settle elsewhere, possibly even creating a Human Empire that spans galaxies. Sounds sci-fi, but it could happen. This also draws me to Smith's analogy on humans in "The Matrix":

Agent Smith said:
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague.
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Humanity would have died out by then anyway, and if we havn't then moving to another galaxy would most likely be what they try and do.
 
DeanoDance said:
By that time (1 billion years) I'm sure mankind will have the technology to colonise other galaxies and move away from Earth to settle elsewhere, possibly even creating a Human Empire that spans galaxies. Sounds sci-fi, but it could happen. This also draws me to Smith's analogy on humans in "The Matrix":
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Except viruses aren't organisms.
 
The planet is doomed no matter what, and by 1 billion years you can't say ANYTHING yet Gofre because in 1 billion years we could have made technology to do stuff like this xD
 
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