dtucker300 wrote:
Carter alluded to the same thing with his 'age of limits.' Both were wrong. However, mankind, if left to their natural instincts, will destroy each other because man is neither naturally good nor evil. Goodness is something that has to be learned. What we need is another good plague that science cannot cure so as to wipe out about half of the world population.
According to Forbes there is 645 million tons of CO2 emitted by volcanoes each year all up and humans emit 29 billion tons.
So it's overwhelming clear that since the year 1750 (the beginning of industrialization) that industrialization caused the atmospheric carbon dioxide to increase from 280 ppm. to 407 ppm.
The Earth's mantle is full of carbon so it does exacerbate the situation or so you would think, but that is completely wrong, because erupting volcanos do not produce more than 1 billion tons of CO2 each year and that small amount is not even an exacerbation of the dangerous CO2 levels of the atmosphere because the Earth's biological ability can and does sequester that small amount no problems.
The level of CO2 which has been consistent in Earth's evolutionary development over the past 800,000 years as never being any more than 300 ppm. up until the year 1750.
In the year 1750 the CO2 content of the atmosphere was 280 ppm, now it's already 407 ppm. in the year 2018.
The earth's biological evolutionary patterns and procedures don't have the ability to sequester the yearly total of 40 billion tons of CO2 produced by burning f****l f**ls, cement manufacturing, deforestation, and animal husbandry.
Just making the connection between what civilization is and the physical environmental factors that allowed it to happen such a short time ago.
I think this is a determination of success or failure, if the environment is destroyed then Civilization went bad, it must have gone real bad, and leaders must be accountable because in Theological terms all 13•8 billion years that the Universe is old was dev**ed to the past 15 thousand years in which Civilization had it's sole, one and only, opportunity to exist.
That is so far at least, due to the fact that the Earth has another 5 billion years to go before the sun runs out of hydrogen to burn so Civilization could end and restart sometime in the future.
However already history has been explicit, !!! Easter Island, !!! - Rapa Nui - the ultimate fable of glorified individuals being idolized by common folks thinking their fantacies are our fantasies, although not being lived by us but nevertheless we have a place in such grandiose BS, - palm trees cut down to move stupid statues of important people.
This was not instinctive on Easter Island the problum was a competitive hierarchical structure built on kinship and ranting explanations without any calibrated relevance to their real environmental situation.
Just stupid self aggrandizement by a few individual leaders competing with each other to have the biggest statue.
The difference between Easter Island Chiefs and our leaders should be what history shows it should be, otherwise Civilization will end as quickly as it started.