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Originally Posted by Robbie
And I told you that nature will solve it. Just like it always has. .
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Maybe you should say "
I *Hope* nature will solve it quickly, like it always has. "
The problem Robbie is this: Nature doesn't "solve problems". Nature, is the natural course of things, and it is science. Things don't "reset". They evolve. We humans are polluting the world because it is natural for us to do it.
It is also natural for us to realize that we are polluting too much, and natural to realize that we are making things much worse for us, and making the planet much harder to live on.
So then why isn't it natural for us to realize what we are doing, and take steps to fix it?
It's easy to say "Nature will fix everything", but if that could happen, it will take millions of years, just like it has always done. I don't know about you, but I don't know anyone who cares about like a million years from now. I care alot more about the next 25 to 50 years. And if you have kids, maybe you should care about their lives or their future kids too.
Just because you don't like Al Gore or think he's doing something rotten is no reason to dismiss the science. There is lots of evidence that global warming is real and granted that evidence is hard to see if you aren't a scientist or don't know what to look for, but I urge you to try.
Did you know that the Planet Venus is extremely hot, but not because it is closer to the sun? Venus is hot because of the endless buildup of greenhouse gasses. t?s believed that plate tectonics on Venus stopped billions of years ago. And without plate tectonics burying carbon deep inside the planet, it was able to build up in the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide built up to the point that any oceans on Venus boiled away. And then the Sun?s solar wind carried the hydrogen atoms away from Venus, making it impossible to ever make liquid water again. The concentration of carbon dioxide just kept increasing until it was all in the atmosphere.
Nature!
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Originally Posted by Dvae
This really says it all!
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Unfortunately, you're right. This is the only kind thing it takes to for some people to dismiss science.