Chris Hedges on Global Warming

“Solving” Nature
~ by judgian12365 on March 1, 2011.
Posted in Current
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There is nothing we can do to stop it or to prevent it.
The best that we can do is to be prepared, be ready, and to adapt.

“People can do nothing to somehow stop it, prevent it, or reverse it. We can no more do so than we can walk on water. (Although, you know, there was this one guy, this one time, a long time ago…) And efforts to do so are, and I do not know how else to put this, a waste of time.”
Why I Don’t Hug Trees
~ by judgian12365 on June 15, 2009.
Posted in College, School, The Imperfection in the Storm
Tags: America, Earth, Environment, Europe, Human, Ice Age, Nature, North America, Religion, Science
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Doing nothing with regards to our Planet’s constantly changing global Climate will result in the extinction of our species just as surely as standing in the middle of an open field, or on the peak of a high mountaintop during an electromagnetic storm will get you struck by a bolt of lightning.
However, any and all vain attempts to “prevent”, “end”, “stop”, or “reverse” global climate change are misguided and will inevitably ultimately prove to be fruitless and futile. We can no more put an end to or stop climate change than one can outrun a cyclonic tornado twister on foot.
The only way to survive either an electrical storm or a tornado would be to find shelter, either in a stably constructed building or deep underground.
Our efforts in regards to Global Climate change should therefore most certainly not be towards the direction of trying in vain to prevent or reverse it, but rather what we should, by all rational reason, be focused on instead are the many varied ways that our civilization can ready and prepare itself for the effects of a constantly changing global climate, as well as how it is that we can best adapt to the more dramatic and drastic shifts in the climate when and where they do occur.
By far an away the best way to both prepare and to adapt to abrupt shifts in climate patterns would be able to accurately predict, to the best of our ability when and where such events may occur.
Another highly effective method of preparation involves autonomy and independence.
If we are unexpectedly cut off from the rest of our global society, we can I’ll afford to still be utterly and wholly dependent on far remote parts of the globe to supply everything from the food we eat and the clothes we wear to the fuel we use to heat our homes. This, in its turn, also incorporates making the places where we live and where we work more hospitable to life and to habitation, which precipitates eliminating contamination and pollution from our air, ground, and water. It also would involve preserving sufficiently substantial biodiversity, both of land animals and terrestrial plants as well ad in the Earth’s Oceans; so as to guarantee that abrupt and drastic shifts in the Planet’s climate do not render our home world a uninhabitable, inhospitable, barren, desolate, and lifeless ball of rock hurtling through the emptiness of the void of space.

“Human actions and interventions that interfere significantly with the patterns of the natural ecosystems, such as causing the extinctions of hundreds or thousands, even millions of species by destroying the rainforests, may, however, amplify and distort changes that will occur in the natural matrix of life on the planet.”
Why I Don’t Hug Trees
~ by judgian12365 on June 15, 2009.
Posted in College, School, The Imperfection in the Storm
Tags: America, Earth, Environment, Europe, Human, Ice Age, Nature, North America, Religion, Science
http://judgian12365.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/introduction/

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