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COMM 3030 - Communication and Social Responsibility
Optimistic Pessimism
Posted posted by Antok the Destroyer @ 5:38 AM
I'm going to take the next few minutes to talk a bit about Global Warming.See also: The Environment
See also: Armageddon
See also: My anxiety
Gas prices are rising, and our budgets are getting lower.
Greenhouse gasses are becoming worse, but people are becoming more aware.
Sea levels are rising, and the standards of living are dropping
Species are going extinct, but Wal-Mart is going green.
The polar ice caps are getting smaller... so are our options.
In our money/power, corperate/government existence of "it's easier to appologize later than to ask permission now" we have reached the edge. The point right before the point of no return, the day before 'the day after tomorrow'. Thankfully, there is an ever growing popularity of acting environmentally friendly, and we are headed in the right direction. However I think it's time we stop 'acting' friendly, and become active, aggresive, strict environmental conservationists. We are fu**ing up this planet in a big, big way, and if we dont start taking more drastic measures against our already devastating mess, we are going to be in a littoral 'world of hurt'.
To leave you with a thought, imagine we take the same averages of today and dont continue improving our habits/standards subsequently each day. Here's what will happen, and potentially in our lifetime. (Trust me on the following grocery list, there is no exact order but I have all the research to back it up, just not enough space on here. For more info on this specifically, feel free to email me. christhompsonut@hotmail.com)
First:
The climate gets warmer and warmer.
the increacing glacial ice deficit bottoms out.
fresh water runoff dilutes the saline content of the oceans.
The Great Ocean Conveyor, needed to circulate the oceans, fails as a result.
Warm and cold waters become stagnate around the equator and poles preventing normal continental weather patterns.
These warm waters evaporate rapidly and start producing 'super-storms', pushing well beyond category 5.
At the same time, agriculture and global economy fail, prices bottom out.
Sand and dust storms Rage with the lack of vegetation
When all the ice has melted, coastlines are changed dramatically
killing millions and displacing millions more.
Famine, disease, oceanic flooding, superstorms, etc. wipe out 95-100% of the human race
stagnate cold polar waters maintain frigid temperatures
At higher lattitudes all over, land and sea, everything begins to freeze.
Lastly, starting at the poles, Earth slips barbarously into its next ice age for thousands and thousands of years.
