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Originally Posted by legoman
Careful thrillobyte - this is governments and corporations asking for money/taxes to save the world because the sky is falling. The article makes it sound like this could be hundreds of years out. (Really they can predict that?)
Last decade Al Gore said the ice caps would have melted by 2014, and the poor polar bears would have no where to live (oops its now 2014 and the ice caps were actually expanding last year...). Meanwhile Al Gore flies around in his private jet between his multi-million dollar mansions which have 10x the energy costs of an average home. Like most other things in this world, the people in power with a mouthpiece are trying to scare the populace into submission so they can increase their power (wait - did that happen in the history Christianity?  ... you know the answer  )
Granted I do get the point of your post. I just think there are more legitimate threats than global warming - you'd think Fukishima spewing radiation into the Pacific ocean for 3 years straight would be a global concern, but does the media cover it? No because they haven't figured out how to make money off of that yet. Global warming on the other hand... |
More good old fashion rational thinking.
And to be found in the Christianity forum of all places.
You're a beacon in a void of darkness, Legoman.
You're right, there is the real possibility that much of this is being hyped by various organizations with a stake in making money out of a "crisis".
My opinion, after hearing a All Things Considered report this afternoon, is that a 10-foot rise in sea level is probably hyped. But whole islands in the Pacific disappearing under water is not.
What we should be looking for is not projections, but things that have already happened, like the every-500-year deluge that just occurred in the South earlier this week; the unnatural number of tornadoes in the last couple of weeks; the historic flooding in the midwest. We've never seen weather events like these and many scientists are saying that climate change is not a thing of the future;it's here right now and it cannot be reversed at this point, only mitigated.
But if you really want to talk about "corporations asking for money to save the world because the sky is falling" look no further than the prophecy peddlers on Daystar Inc, GodTV Inc, and TBN Inc who are shouting the rapture and tribulation and WW3 and the return of Jesus is right around the corner and they need your $$$$'s to spread the news.
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