<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for When inheriting the earth isn’t such a good deal]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Liora Leah http://www.grist.org/article/gearon/ Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:45:11 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/gearon/1 A New Hope

Dear Jihran, you are not alone. I'd suggest you read "A Message to Humanity" by Bennie LeBeau, Shoshone elder, at: http://www.teton-rainbows.com/msg_humanity.html

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Dear Jihran, you are not alone. I'd suggest you read "A Message to Humanity" by Bennie LeBeau, Shoshone elder, at: http://www.teton-rainbows.com/msg_humanity.html

]]> Comment #2 by SnoDragon http://www.grist.org/article/gearon/ Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:49:25 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/gearon/2 A world without hope?

Though not as active, I'm definitely a young person who whole-heartedly supports environmentalism and tries (as always) to live as greenly as possible (even sacrificing my precious few dollars for as much organic and local produce as I can afford). I don't own a car, but the public transport here is horrendous (oh how I wish for a subway system!), but I always carpool wherever I go!

But I digress: I try to be politically active and make politicians aware of my concern, but it feels increasingly futile, especially given the outcome of the 2004 election and the mandate that Pres. Bush has taken that outcome as. I, too, feel frustrated and angry and scared. But what more can we possibly do but wait until we can take over? Even if by then it is too late?

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Though not as active, I'm definitely a young person who whole-heartedly supports environmentalism and tries (as always) to live as greenly as possible (even sacrificing my precious few dollars for as much organic and local produce as I can afford). I don't own a car, but the public transport here is horrendous (oh how I wish for a subway system!), but I always carpool wherever I go!

But I digress: I try to be politically active and make politicians aware of my concern, but it feels increasingly futile, especially given the outcome of the 2004 election and the mandate that Pres. Bush has taken that outcome as. I, too, feel frustrated and angry and scared. But what more can we possibly do but wait until we can take over? Even if by then it is too late?

]]> Comment #3 by Sishongjerry http://www.grist.org/article/gearon/ Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:07:55 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/gearon/3 Read a book

If you read one of the most popular books ever written, you will see that way before fossil fuels, cars and aerosol hairspray, the world was experiencing climate changes, draughts, floods, fires, plaugues, death, disease, and famine. Only in this book they were because mankind was sinful, not because mankind was polluting the environment. If you haven't figured it out, I mean the Bible.

I am not religious, this is not a preachy type comment.

What I mean to say is, yes, the earth is going through alot, but it always has and always will. maybe the earth is sick of us, and is ready to get rid of us. Are we so cocky that we think the earth, which has been around for billions of years, long before we were even thought of, needs us to save it? The earth gave us life, how could we even presume that we could actually cause any real destruction? Granted I'm all about trying to make the world a better cleaner place, but that's simple grooming.

And don't worry, the fossil fuels would come back if we stopped burying our dead in concrete boxes.

The earth was here long before us and will be here long after, who's to say that the changes we see now were not meant to happen, running along the normal course of our worlds lifespan. We have proof that there have been many climate upheavals throughtout all time, and these have caused mass extinctions, the dinosaurs and wolly mammoths, so far as I know, did not drive cars, or burn fossil fuels, or release ozone depleting gases to bring on these changes, the earth just did it. We don't know enough about a planet's lifespan to accurately say anything about what we may or may not be doing to hurt the environment.

The world may not be a great place for my great great great grandchildren, but who is to say it ever would have been without our polution, we just don't know enough. Maybe the earth is actually improving in aspects that we cannot see or measure, what if the end all be all for the earth was for us to create plastics and dump them in landfills. Now that the earth has plenty of that, it's done with us, it has plastic. (Sorry stole from George Carlin there).

I have so much more to say, but it's just ranting so I'll close with this, Things move on, things, change, it's the course of life, nothing is immune, humans, planets, galaxies, things live, change, and die, regardless of our efforts, besides, do you really want to live in a world where nothing ever died, and nothing ever changed, now that's scary, I'm for the excitement of change, and if the earth kills us off, so be it it's the earth, come on, what can you do?

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If you read one of the most popular books ever written, you will see that way before fossil fuels, cars and aerosol hairspray, the world was experiencing climate changes, draughts, floods, fires, plaugues, death, disease, and famine. Only in this book they were because mankind was sinful, not because mankind was polluting the environment. If you haven't figured it out, I mean the Bible.

I am not religious, this is not a preachy type comment.

What I mean to say is, yes, the earth is going through alot, but it always has and always will. maybe the earth is sick of us, and is ready to get rid of us. Are we so cocky that we think the earth, which has been around for billions of years, long before we were even thought of, needs us to save it? The earth gave us life, how could we even presume that we could actually cause any real destruction? Granted I'm all about trying to make the world a better cleaner place, but that's simple grooming.

And don't worry, the fossil fuels would come back if we stopped burying our dead in concrete boxes.

The earth was here long before us and will be here long after, who's to say that the changes we see now were not meant to happen, running along the normal course of our worlds lifespan. We have proof that there have been many climate upheavals throughtout all time, and these have caused mass extinctions, the dinosaurs and wolly mammoths, so far as I know, did not drive cars, or burn fossil fuels, or release ozone depleting gases to bring on these changes, the earth just did it. We don't know enough about a planet's lifespan to accurately say anything about what we may or may not be doing to hurt the environment.

The world may not be a great place for my great great great grandchildren, but who is to say it ever would have been without our polution, we just don't know enough. Maybe the earth is actually improving in aspects that we cannot see or measure, what if the end all be all for the earth was for us to create plastics and dump them in landfills. Now that the earth has plenty of that, it's done with us, it has plastic. (Sorry stole from George Carlin there).

I have so much more to say, but it's just ranting so I'll close with this, Things move on, things, change, it's the course of life, nothing is immune, humans, planets, galaxies, things live, change, and die, regardless of our efforts, besides, do you really want to live in a world where nothing ever died, and nothing ever changed, now that's scary, I'm for the excitement of change, and if the earth kills us off, so be it it's the earth, come on, what can you do?

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