Fun Stuff > CHATTER
Weather Channel founder wants to sue Al Gore
Uber Ritter:
RE not getting what climate change means:
If people could be communists into the 70's, through the thuggish Russian Revolution, horrific civil war, red terror, terror famines, great terror, Nazi-Soviet Pact, iron curtain, Hungarian revolution and Prague Spring, because they continued to -believe- in the dream of a worker's paradise and thus think that everything that discredited it was simply a capitalist lie, then it makes perfect sense that those whose ideologies are inconvenienced by certain scientific consenses will deny them. Ideology is a powerful force in shaping how people see reality, these days probably more so than religion in much of the world.
Vendetagainst:
I read an issue of New Scientist that I thought made a really good point. Global Warming is a human problem, other species will continue to adapt and move on as they have since life was first formed, and ultimately only humans will be impacted.
Vendetagainst:
I think the article meant as a species they would adapt (into another species) which would mean that humans as humans would suffer more. Plus, humans aren't like other animals in that we are very dependent on stable, consistent environments and would mostly be wiped out almost completely with very little effort.
tania:
evolution works the same way for humans as it does for every other species, which is by killing absolutely everything expect the few that are able to survive and procreate.
over 99.9% of creatures that have lives on earth are now extinct. the few that aren't probably will be very very soon. it's essentially a random trial and error process with an extremely huge fail rate. adapting to a new environment isn't the same thing as evolving, which are random genetic mutations that take millions of years to become common. every other animal on earth is pretty much going to go through the same thing we are.
Vendetagainst:
well yes, adaptation is evolution, it is just a single rung along a very, very long ladder.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version