Wednesday, February 07, 2007

 

Global Warming: The Debate Is Over!!

Global warming is fact. It is time for action, not rational scientific debate. We must act now to save the Earth! Some seem to think that we should proceed with caution given that it "could cost us, according to a U.N. estimate, $553 trillion over this century."

What price can you put on a planet? $554 trillion? Earth is the only choice we have. Mars is too cold and dry. Those who doubt global warming must be silenced. It doesn't matter that there isn't a consensus on global warming.

I have a few suggestions (rules to be followed without question upon fear of...), first, we mush live in smaller houses. My house is about 1,600 square feet with 3 bedrooms, two full baths, eat-in kitchen, laundry room, family room and living room. It suits myself and 3 of children quite well. Therefore, 1000 square feet maximum will be allotted for common living areas in each residence and 100 square feet per person for sleeping quarters, etc. Childless couples would be limited to 1200 square feet residences.

House require a lot of material for construction. Producing this material, through energy use, creates CO2 gas through the burning of coal for electricity and transportation fuels. Heating and cooling houses also requires much energy, thus creating more greenhouse gases. Smaller houses use less energy.

Vehicles mush also become much smaller and less efficient for similar reasons. Recreational use of fuels will be forbidden, no power boating, no snow mobiles, no dirt bikes or four wheelers. We must save the world.

Indeed, we must quit eating beef and drinking milk because cow farts contribute to global warming. (I wonder if goats are OK.)

This is only scratching the surface of the changes we must undertake.

But, of course, we must take care of our ruling class. Some need 28,200 square feet of living space in order to perform their duties. Others, may need several mansions in order to fulfill their duties. Other rulers need "two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.)" The third home also helps provide much funds to help save the planet, it sits "on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River."

Some of our rulers need "jumbo jet that costs $22,000 an hour to operate" in order to be effective. Even though a smaller jet would still emit "something like 10,000 lbs of C02 per hour", our rulers need the best.

Yes, we may be moving back towards a modern version of the feudal system where the bulk of us, especially the middle class, work to support our wealthy rulers. In return, they protect us, except from illegal immigration and terrorists, i.e. mostly imagined threats, such as global warming. But don't complain, we must change the way we live in order to save the Earth.

Of course, we could take more reasonable approach. But, what fun would that be?

Comments:
there is a simpler way.. kill 1/6th of the population, that would stop the pollution, their land would be forested over..

it seems to me that they are wanting to be luddites, stop all technology that pollutes,, when in reality technology may very well save us..

i still stand by my idea that this old earth has had enough of us, and is getting rid of the disease called humanity
 
mercurior - I have to agree that humans have over-populated the Earth, thus causing a myriad of problems. Because of easy, fast travel and large populations, we are probably more susceptible to pandemics, such as bird flu, than ever, despite modern medicine.

Certainly, the laws of nature seem to act in such a manner that the Earth tends to rid itself of too much of a bad thing.
 
I agree with you about the sizing of houses... new houses these days are way too big!

I can't really talk, though, because my house is over 2500sq. But it was built in the early 1900s, so at least I recycled when I bought it. :)
 
jennifer - and by buying an existing house, you didn't contribute to all the energy use, etc. needed to produce the materials and operate machinery to build the house.
 
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