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Re: [OT] Global Warming debates completely miss the point

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____/ Homer on Thursday 24 Sep 2009 23:30 : \____

> Here's something I don't understand about the Global Warming debate:
> Why is there a debate at all?
> 
> Let's assume, for one minute, that the Global Warming denialists are
> actually correct, and that dumping billions of tonnes of toxic crap into
> the environment every year does /not/ in fact have /any/ influence on
> Earth's changing environmental conditions (such as melting polar ice,
> for example), and that the /real/ cause is some sort of natural cycle of
> solar activity - or even that global warming is not occurring at /all/.
> 
> Let's pretend that's true.
> 
> So ... /what/ exactly is the justification for dumping billions of
> tonnes of toxic crap into the environment every year?
> 
> That's like saying, it's OK for my neighbour's dog to crap on my lawn,
> because ... it doesn't cause global warming.
> 
> Or, it's OK for me to pour cyanide into a fish tank, because ... it
> doesn't cause global warming.
> 
> Isn't there a rather unsubtle point the whole Global Warming debate is
> missing?

Another good example is deforestation and oxygen supply.

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