The Courage of the Human Race
The debate over global warming has been over for years because we know with complete certainty that the Earth is warming up. However, 10 years ago not even the most dedicated alarmist that was 3 cappuccinos away from being admitted into a psychiatric institution predicted how bad things are as we know them today. Yet people are still debating whether humans are the cause of global warming or not. It is utterly beside the point. The Earth warms up, we die, it don't matter the cause.
Our home is being destroyed 0.1°C at a time. And I must say we are facing the possible extinction of our species with spectacular poise. We carry on without a care in the world, going about our everyday business. Or like a man who has accepted his impending punishment and sits on death row but waiting for a lethal injection that is going to be very painful and extremely slow.
The resilience of the human race sure has grown in the last couple of years; I remember during the blackout people were just a few notches below a panicked state. I guess we learned from that experience (and others around the world like it) because now the collective courage of the human race has increased 1,000 fold it would seem.
An Inconvenient Truth
This is a trailer for a new documentary called ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. It deals with global warming and although I have only just seen this trailer, it sparks the imagination:
100 million people displaced from their homes. That’s 100 million refugees without money, jobs, clothes, food or shelter and your backyard with the only place to go. Lately the news has been dealing with the issue of thousands of Mexicans jumping the border and coming to America to steal some below minimum wage jobs. Imagine 100 million invalids. That is a full 1/3 of the entire population of the United States. Where would they go? Into poor countries who already have enough trouble taking care of their own population? No, they will be coming near you, wherever you may be reading this from.
I imagine the desperate souls stealing and looting just to survive after a short time. The anxieties making them do horrors like we saw just a hint of in New Orleans. But the citizens fight back against the refugees. Many deaths, mutilations and it cannot even be dignified by calling it a civil war.
And then the refugees get punished by the government that has accepted them, put into make shift prisons, or just shot on site. The makeshift prisons are deemed too inhumane so old abandoned sections of cities become used by them. And the return of the ghetto fences to keep them in. Anxieties rise again, but at least this time, they can only turn on one another. I think it would be far less cruel to just build those ghetto fences around the flood line.
Will the refugees be taken care of properly? Extremely unlikely: The human race is just one magnificent half measure after another. How was Saddam Hussein allowed to regain power after Iraq was invaded? How were those levies not replaced in New Orleans when it was clear that they were vulnerable? Vietnam was heroically saved from Communism so it could what; flourish in the poverty that still holds the nation to this day? And how was Germany allowed to start a Second World War?
Back to reality and back to the larger issue. If these things and many more like it happen, there’s no hope of taking care of 100 million refugees and absolutely no prayer of a snowball’s chance in hell that something like global warming being defeated.
Those ghetto fences I mentioned? Designed long ago. The 100 million refugees? Already on their way. Have been for years. And that was just one of the many issues. A thousand more Hurricane Katrina’s, years of drought on one side with the only relief being flooding from the other. Oxygen depletion.
At this point in time, half a billion people are already going to die no matter what. What we do today will determine how many more will die and how the survivors will live.
Earlier I used the words “possible extinction” It's not the phrase of an alarmist any longer; it's right on the money. A truth within 'An Inconvenient Truth' is that any fight against global warming is not a fight to save our way of life because the destruction of that is already imminent; it’s a fight to save our children and children’s children. It’s a fight to save our species.
Our home is being destroyed 0.1°C at a time. And I must say we are facing the possible extinction of our species with spectacular poise. We carry on without a care in the world, going about our everyday business. Or like a man who has accepted his impending punishment and sits on death row but waiting for a lethal injection that is going to be very painful and extremely slow.
The resilience of the human race sure has grown in the last couple of years; I remember during the blackout people were just a few notches below a panicked state. I guess we learned from that experience (and others around the world like it) because now the collective courage of the human race has increased 1,000 fold it would seem.
An Inconvenient Truth
This is a trailer for a new documentary called ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. It deals with global warming and although I have only just seen this trailer, it sparks the imagination:
100 million people displaced from their homes. That’s 100 million refugees without money, jobs, clothes, food or shelter and your backyard with the only place to go. Lately the news has been dealing with the issue of thousands of Mexicans jumping the border and coming to America to steal some below minimum wage jobs. Imagine 100 million invalids. That is a full 1/3 of the entire population of the United States. Where would they go? Into poor countries who already have enough trouble taking care of their own population? No, they will be coming near you, wherever you may be reading this from.
I imagine the desperate souls stealing and looting just to survive after a short time. The anxieties making them do horrors like we saw just a hint of in New Orleans. But the citizens fight back against the refugees. Many deaths, mutilations and it cannot even be dignified by calling it a civil war.
And then the refugees get punished by the government that has accepted them, put into make shift prisons, or just shot on site. The makeshift prisons are deemed too inhumane so old abandoned sections of cities become used by them. And the return of the ghetto fences to keep them in. Anxieties rise again, but at least this time, they can only turn on one another. I think it would be far less cruel to just build those ghetto fences around the flood line.
Will the refugees be taken care of properly? Extremely unlikely: The human race is just one magnificent half measure after another. How was Saddam Hussein allowed to regain power after Iraq was invaded? How were those levies not replaced in New Orleans when it was clear that they were vulnerable? Vietnam was heroically saved from Communism so it could what; flourish in the poverty that still holds the nation to this day? And how was Germany allowed to start a Second World War?
Back to reality and back to the larger issue. If these things and many more like it happen, there’s no hope of taking care of 100 million refugees and absolutely no prayer of a snowball’s chance in hell that something like global warming being defeated.
Those ghetto fences I mentioned? Designed long ago. The 100 million refugees? Already on their way. Have been for years. And that was just one of the many issues. A thousand more Hurricane Katrina’s, years of drought on one side with the only relief being flooding from the other. Oxygen depletion.
At this point in time, half a billion people are already going to die no matter what. What we do today will determine how many more will die and how the survivors will live.
Earlier I used the words “possible extinction” It's not the phrase of an alarmist any longer; it's right on the money. A truth within 'An Inconvenient Truth' is that any fight against global warming is not a fight to save our way of life because the destruction of that is already imminent; it’s a fight to save our children and children’s children. It’s a fight to save our species.
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