Oh, oh... now, what do we do?

[therealrex]

If you include the tar sands in Alberta and the oil shale in Colorado the peak oil argument goes right out the window reserves in North America are 3-5 Trillion barrels. As for global warming I just hope that in 20 years when the trend moves towards cooling that all these "experts" will be put up against a wall and shot.

 

[gravitas]

frequently discussed on the late night radio show Coast to Coast AM (Art Bell or George Noory hosting)

don't know if I'd use C2C or its hosts as a reputable source for factual information......when I'm up too late I listen to it and am never disappointed how absolutely fucked up some people are

 

[Maury Beniowski]

Thanks Maury, I wasn't able to follow your directions but I got this graph up through a web link. (Where is perb's image link?). It's not as good as the graph I wanted to display but it makes the point.

The yellow icon on the reply screen next to the quote icon.

I see you used the correct quote anyway. Same difference. I enter the quote text manually myself - i.e.: [ QUOTE ][ /QUOTE ]

 

[aznboi9]

The bigger concept I struggle with is everything we use came from the enviroment. Oil was there we just moved it. Pop cans are just natural resources re-arranged. It all came from the earth and will be returned to the earth in one fashion or another yet we think the earth will be irreversably damaged? I think we don't give mother nature as much credit as it deserves. When I went to school they were teaching us that we posioned the great lakes and that Erie was dead and would never recover yet last I read it is getting healthier faster than anyone predicted.

Yes, in the grand scheme of things, everything came from the earth and is returned to the earth. However, the states that they are rearranged into are not natural and often, such as in the case of many plastics, the rates of degradation into their basic components are so slow that they can be considered irreversible. They've even dug up old newspapers in landfills that were still in surprisingly good condition; there was little, if any, decomposition after 50+ years. And this is for a paper product. You may be right and the earth is more stable than people give her credit for; but that still doesn't mean that we shouldn't at least make the effort to live our lives in a conservative manner and try to minimize the footprints on the environment that we leave behind.