.... and what is the 'cure' for this ego-sickness, Dr. X ???
" Lots of acid and X an' shrooms "
The ego is like a dirty little savage, always trying some subterfuge, playing some game, trying to enforce an artifice onto an unmeasurable construct, the construct of no-construct, 'reality', 'isness', 'the square root of now'
OR WHATEVER
....anyway, back to the topic at hand, namely; global warming.....
People instinctively shy away from the theory of global warming for very real reasons, none of them all that logical....in our ADD-ridlled culture, its asking a hell of a lot to get many people to focus on anything for over sixty seconds,
much less have a high scholl chemistry lesson instilled in them * before * they can grasp the explanation given..... and that's IF their minds are open at all,
because many people, without realizing it, have accepted dogma spouted by their _________, and accepted it SO completely, so thoroughly, that they begin to hold it as a verified, proven fact.
What's the difference between 'dogma' and a 'verified, proven fact'???????
Proof.
A 'verified, proven fact' is also known as SCIENCE.
Dogma is also known as 'horseshit'.....or 'allegations'
Here are some things that are proven, scientific facts;
Carbon dioxide gas ( CO2 ) is an INSULATOR. This is a scientific property that CO2 posesses. It traps heat, in experiments, like a blanket.
Scientists have measured polar ice using huge drills, sampling core ice going to great depths, which allows them to sample ice from bygone eras, thus getting a much better idea of conditions extant on earth at that point in time, and they have discovered, and rediscovered, and then it was verified by another group of scientists, separate and independent of the first group, that the earths atmospher had less gas in it than it does now.
That is a fact.
Here's another FACT; When CO2 levels rise, it affects the oceans in negative ways, too....CO2 is soluble in water, remember, and what happens when you dissolve CO2 in water, is that it becomes ACIDIC, because something called 'carbonic acid' is created by the dissolving of the gas in the water....a really detrimental effect of this rising acidity is that coral reefs are basically stunted
and some are dying in response to this. NOW THINK- Why would the coral reefs be so sensitive to the ph of the ocean?
A biologist with any CLUE would say that it must be because their evolution did not require them to be tolerant of fluctuations, hence the conclusion; the acidity was relatively stable, for a LONNNNNG fucking time, and some factor, some wild card, ( hint: US ) began all of a sudden pumping millions upon millions of tons of it into the biosphere ( not just the atmosphere ) and did something that a lot of people don't think is possible; caused fluctuations in the ecosystem based on INDUSTRY AS A WAY OF LIFE.
There is a nasty trait that many Republicans seem to have regarding the environment, and that is they tend to treat her as they would any other woman; give me what I want bitch or I'll take it'
They are exploitative and unapologetic.
Their stock-in-trade is getting people to doubt the validity of the science by playing on peoples natural ignmorance and tendency to distrust anything they don't understand. this tendency is very strong in humanity, and it is a readily
available source of fuel for their dogma.
Back to the facts; there is enough proof for me that we are affecting the planet in other negative ways than just global warming by our oil based economy, and the dirty little, polluting, bastard redhaired stepchild of the oil industry- BIG COAL, that these effects alone are enough to seriously contemplate abandonment altogether......
The fact of the matter is that we are behaving STUPIDLY, in our boneheaded reluctance to CHANGE, dammit, and to realize that we have been exploited, will be exploited, over and again, unless we DEMAND that the people DOING these things stop.
Who is 'doing these things'?
We all are, to whatever degree, by being passive....by using cars, by behaving as cattle.
The atmosphere has a physical limitation, it is FINITE, and measurable.
Just because a person cannot LOOK at the atmosphere and tell where it starts and where 'outer space' stops, doesn't mean the atmosphere goes up to the stars, its only like 20 miles thick....it is a thin layer of gases that compose the air we breathe on earth....it is made up of many gases, in small amounts, the most significant to us being nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.
So it should be understood that the atmosphere is basically a closed system,
like a balloon....when a gas is created in a process that involves the combustion of ANY carbon containing fuel ( and that means all fuels, basically ) carbon dioxide is created as the liquid fuel IS TRANSFORMED INTO A GAS.....
Carbon dioxide is invisible, but that doesn't mean it doesn't posess mass.
One mole of ANY gas takes up 22.4 liters of volume at 75 degrees and 1 atm pressure....a mole of carbon dioxide gas is 44 grams.....that means 44 g of CO2
takes up 11 2 Liter bottles of space.....your car makes that much gas every second its running....
Wheres all that stuff going?
Into the oceans, where I told you....into our atmosphere, insulating the earth and warming it.
You know, the concept of insulating an area is pretty well understood, hence the term 'greenhouse effect'.....think about it...where's the carbon dioxide going?
There is a LOT of proof of detrimental effects we are having with our industry-is-king-let's get-on-our-kneees and suckit attitude.
The real question is;
Will we be able to ask for forgiveness to the children growing up now?
We can't say 'noone told us'.....thats BS, everyone is screaming it to the rooftops.
Cattle.
