Happy Earth Day!
I have to spend today studying, partly on my computer, but I'm going to save as much energy as possible. I'm studying and celebrating!
So I want to talk today about biodiversity. Biodiversity is the variety and diversity of living things on the planet. The biodiversity of the Earth is UNIMAGINABLE. I wrote a bit already today on facebook.
Biodiversity is one of the most important things. We are currently in and for a large part causing one of the great global extinction events of the planet's history. But, if we want to survive, we have to recognize that all life is interdependent. We depend on ecosystems for oxygen, clean water, food, and medicine. The level of biodiversity is indicative of an ecosystem's health. The more species there are, the greater the health of the organisms, the greater the health and resilience of the ecosystem, and also the finer the balance of the ecosystem. Things we now depend on, like the Agri-Business Corporations of the food processing industry, the Pharmaceutical Companies, Bottled Water Companies or just modern water treatment, and especially Land Developers are all contributing to habitat destruction and the destruction of biodiversity while providing chemically altered forms of those things that we could be getting cleanly and for free from life on the planet.
This world blows my mind.
you really need to do more thorough research. Look at both sides not just the biased green movement zealots. While protecting the environment is important, most of the people telling us to do that have everything BUT the environment's interest in mind.
ReplyDeleteThis day is a perfect example, we're supposed to celebrate the Earth but really all this day is does is give people a false sense of empowerment and justice. Like they're actually creating change when really all gestures being made are insignificant. Earth Hour is even worse, they tell you to sit in the dark with some candles for an hour when those candles create more greenhouse gases than what a power plant would give off generating the electricity for your lights.
You say all these people are causing habitat destruction but you're completely ignoring the fact that in many of these cases nature ends up making up for it elsewhere.
"By one estimate, for every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics on land that was once farmed, logged or ravaged by natural disaster." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/science/earth/30forest.html?_r=2
If you become too zealous with either side of a conflict you will completely lose sight of the truth. The fact is we need to switch to cleaner alternatives because its the right thing to do, not because of some fake environmental apocalypse. Mankind does not have the power to ruin nature, the more we try the more it continues to show us how feeble we are.
While its important to live in a clean and green manner for your health, we aren't going to ruin the environment at this rate. Instead it is going to ruin us. Take global warming for example, all these retarded zealots go on and on about how we're at fault for the Earth increasing in temperature but none of them talk about the energy our sun is giving off. If they did everyone would understand that the warming is being caused almost entirely by an increase in solar activity.
The point is, both the environmentalists and the polluters like to use partial data to sway anyone gullible enough. If you want people to take you seriously it is your job to look for the full data so you can have an educated opinion instead of some biased ideals someone else implanted so they could reap the benefits.
who hates on earth day?
ReplyDeletereally.
your blog is awesome. keep the posts a-comin'
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