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Very Very Interesting... Reason Why Our World Will End...Very...Very...Soon
Trauma-san:
This thread is a collection of Dumbasses. One chicken Little, and one guy sticking up for "The Little Man", who just happens to be the exact opposite of his father, who he despises in his drunkeness.
THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!
The basic fallacy of the argument put forth in the first post is, 1. we cannot destroy the earth, we're much too insignificant and powerless to do that, and 2. Since we're basically enlightened animals, all we ultimately need to keep 'the world' alive is the earth and the sun. We could take all the oil we could find, pour it all over the ground, set it all on fire and burn it all up at one time. Still the earth would go on.
We could try to blow the earth up ourselves with Nuclear weapons, and still not destroy it, and there would still be survivors. We cannot 'end the world', so saying "Our world will end very very soon" is just idiotic.
I got an idea, lets all realize that our small minds cannot possibly understand something as great as the earth, and just live our little personal, insignificant lives the best we can, and while we're at it, be polite and courteous to the earth, instead of thinking we can save or destroy it. It saves or destroys us.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Trauma on April 08, 2005, 02:19:12 PM ---
The basic fallacy of the argument put forth in the first post is, 1. we cannot destroy the earth, we're much too insignificant and powerless to do that, and 2. Since we're basically enlightened animals, all we ultimately need to keep 'the world' alive is the earth and the sun. We could take all the oil we could find, pour it all over the ground, set it all on fire and burn it all up at one time. Still the earth would go on.
We could try to blow the earth up ourselves with Nuclear weapons, and still not destroy it, and there would still be survivors. We cannot 'end the world', so saying "Our world will end very very soon" is just idiotic.
I got an idea, lets all realize that our small minds cannot possibly understand something as great as the earth, and just live our little personal, insignificant lives the best we can, and while we're at it, be polite and courteous to the earth, instead of thinking we can save or destroy it. It saves or destroys us.
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Don't worry, it's nothing to feel threatened and insecure about. The author meant that our way of life and so-called standard of living was being threatened, he wasn't saying that the world would end.
Bomb-A®:
firstly nobody outside america....NOBODY....thought the US went to iraq looking for wmds or to oust saddam
coming to the oil situation.....it is running out and it will run out....but there are a lot of undiscovered oil fields in africa and west & nort asia which too will soon run out
that being said there are alternative energy sources...natural sources like...solar, wind, hydroelectric....right now people are too ignorant to make use of these sources but one day we will all have to....just installing solar cells on ur rooftop can take care of all ur household requirements....these will prolly become standard in approx 50 yrs with oil prices sky-rocketing
peace
Big BpG:
--- Quote from: Trauma on April 08, 2005, 02:19:12 PM ---This thread is a collection of Dumbasses. One chicken Little, and one guy sticking up for "The Little Man", who just happens to be the exact opposite of his father, who he despises in his drunkeness.
THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!
The basic fallacy of the argument put forth in the first post is, 1. we cannot destroy the earth, we're much too insignificant and powerless to do that, and 2. Since we're basically enlightened animals, all we ultimately need to keep 'the world' alive is the earth and the sun. We could take all the oil we could find, pour it all over the ground, set it all on fire and burn it all up at one time. Still the earth would go on.
We could try to blow the earth up ourselves with Nuclear weapons, and still not destroy it, and there would still be survivors. We cannot 'end the world', so saying "Our world will end very very soon" is just idiotic.
I got an idea, lets all realize that our small minds cannot possibly understand something as great as the earth, and just live our little personal, insignificant lives the best we can, and while we're at it, be polite and courteous to the earth, instead of thinking we can save or destroy it. It saves or destroys us.
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OUR WORLD will end...Do you know how dependent we are on this resource? OUR WHOLE WAY OF LIVING is depended on this resources and it's only been within the last 100 yrs in which we have used it. If there is no OIL... remember, we dont know how much there is... we only have an IDEA...anyway, with NO OIL, we would be screwed. We would have huge energy crisis everywhere... they seem to get them every summer in Cali and in NY ... we couldn't use machinary. We wouldn't be able to import or export goods. We would starting walking and biking everywhere because our cars would become decorations in our driveways. We would have no plastic, which is a petroleum bioproduct... Look in your room... how many plastic things are there... I have CD cases, a computer monitor, my keyboard, my printer, my stereo, all these things would have to be constructed some other way... WHICH IS SO MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE. If you burned all the oil in one shot, our way of living would be shot...
Woodrow:
Peak Oil is a myth.
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