Human behavior triggers natural disasters?
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If a homeless man were standing on the corner of a street as you were passing by, screaming "The world is coming to an end!" would you believe him?
Movies set aside, most would try not to make eye contact and walk by swiftly muttering, "He's crazy."
But what if this "insane" man's predictions came true? What if a fire started in your own backyard because of a drought or if your entire neighborhood was wiped out by a terrible monsoon one night?
Global warming is no longer the problem of our future generations. It is our problem.
Rising sea levels due to melting glaciers; droughts, monsoons, wildfires and greenhouse gasses are all natural disasters that have come to be known as not-so-natural.
How is something we can't control not natural? Its simple- these actions have been on the rise because of the effect of our every day lives on Mother Nature.
Whether it's a citizen's daily commute, running their clothes through a dryer in the middle of the day, watering their lawn during winter or even the kind of light bulbs they use, they have a bigger impact on the environment then they are aware of.
In fact, the United States only makes up four percent of the world's population but is responsible for an alarming 22 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main culprit for our greenhouse gas emissions. Earth is designed to hold just enough CO2 to create a warm blanket, therefore allowing life to form.
With Americans pumping out millions of pounds of carbon every day with our gas-guzzling cars and ruthless energy use, Mother Nature was bound to lash back sometime.
There's always the skeptic who couldn't possibly make the connection between them driving their car to work everyday and the polar ice caps melting at alarming rates.
Anyone who's taken a science class in their lifetime knows that heat melts ice. The more carbon released into the atmosphere, causes more heat to be trapped which means glaciers act as ice in a glass on a summer day in the Valley of the Sun.But what most people don't realize is how much carbon and even money they can save by carpooling with someone who is taking the same route. In a year, it can save 1,590 pounds of CO2 and hundreds of dollars.
Drastic climate changes aren't the only predictions in Earth's crystal ball.
Insect-born diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and encephalitis can be spread by mosquitoes and rodents who migrate to warmer areas.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), climate change contributes to 150,000 extra deaths a year. With the climate gradually getting worse, this number can easily be doubled in the next 25 years.
Respiratory problems are also in the future due to high levels of CO2 favoring the growth of ragweed and other pollen producers. The amount of pollen produced rises with CO2 emissions and therefore causes more asthma and allergy attacks.
For anyone living in Arizona with allergies or asthma, they might not even be able to imagine it being any worse with all of the dust and plants residing here.
This is the grim outlook of the world if people continue on the careless path of believing it will never happen to them. Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse, the advancement of our own society is finally fighting back. -
"THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!"
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LOL!
anymore views that i wrote for this topic? -
err....so i can presume that the ice age was caused by too much methane emission by dinosaurs fart that methane clouds covered the whole earth and killed all dinos?
from my pov, its just a natural occurance dats all.
if we are meant to die one day, who bother so much? live life to the fullest and fufil our everyday needs.
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i believe in The Undertaker and he is the only one who can take my soul.
REST IN PEACE
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like are unpredicatable. just have to live life to the fullest i guess.
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Yeaap. Sooon. We are dying. The Earth is dying. Everything and everyone is dying.
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Originally posted by schmaltz:
If a homeless man were standing on the corner of a street as you were passing by, screaming "The world is coming to an end!" would you believe him?
Movies set aside, most would try not to make eye contact and walk by swiftly muttering, "He's crazy."
But what if this "insane" man's predictions came true? What if a fire started in your own backyard because of a drought or if your entire neighborhood was wiped out by a terrible monsoon one night?
Global warming is no longer the problem of our future generations. It is our problem.
Rising sea levels due to melting glaciers; droughts, monsoons, wildfires and greenhouse gasses are all natural disasters that have come to be known as not-so-natural.
How is something we can't control not natural? Its simple- these actions have been on the rise because of the effect of our every day lives on Mother Nature.
Whether it's a citizen's daily commute, running their clothes through a dryer in the middle of the day, watering their lawn during winter or even the kind of light bulbs they use, they have a bigger impact on the environment then they are aware of.
In fact, the United States only makes up four percent of the world's population but is responsible for an alarming 22 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main culprit for our greenhouse gas emissions. Earth is designed to hold just enough CO2 to create a warm blanket, therefore allowing life to form.
With Americans pumping out millions of pounds of carbon every day with our gas-guzzling cars and ruthless energy use, Mother Nature was bound to lash back sometime.
There's always the skeptic who couldn't possibly make the connection between them driving their car to work everyday and the polar ice caps melting at alarming rates.
Anyone who's taken a science class in their lifetime knows that heat melts ice. The more carbon released into the atmosphere, causes more heat to be trapped which means glaciers act as ice in a glass on a summer day in the Valley of the Sun.But what most people don't realize is how much carbon and even money they can save by carpooling with someone who is taking the same route. In a year, it can save 1,590 pounds of CO2 and hundreds of dollars.
Drastic climate changes aren't the only predictions in Earth's crystal ball.
Insect-born diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and encephalitis can be spread by mosquitoes and rodents who migrate to warmer areas.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), climate change contributes to 150,000 extra deaths a year. With the climate gradually getting worse, this number can easily be doubled in the next 25 years.
Respiratory problems are also in the future due to high levels of CO2 favoring the growth of ragweed and other pollen producers. The amount of pollen produced rises with CO2 emissions and therefore causes more asthma and allergy attacks.
For anyone living in Arizona with allergies or asthma, they might not even be able to imagine it being any worse with all of the dust and plants residing here.
This is the grim outlook of the world if people continue on the careless path of believing it will never happen to them. Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse, the advancement of our own society is finally fighting back.So do you have solutions for these problems?
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Originally posted by schmaltz:
LOL!
anymore views that i wrote for this topic?Read the book
"The Secret"
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well, actually its just a cycle of everything.
first it was the ice age and then the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. so..
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what started, must finish..
If human trigger Global warming, it is not a natural diseaster anymore, it is human digging their own grave diseaster.
If it is a natural act of science, as some top astrologers said that we are slowly moving toward the sun and in time to come, we will be suck into it. Then let the nature selection decides.
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Some posts here reflect the same irresponsible and selfish attitude that the big players in the industries adopt towards environmental problems. It's not clear whether it's a natural phenomenon but why do you want to take chances?
As for green measures, the piecemeal measures we are using now only create more problems. For instance, using energy-saving light bulbs and hybrid vehicles requires toxic and exotic materials that cannot be disposed easily.
We have to examine the impact of products at every stage, change whole business and consumer cultures, and be more tolerant of inconveniences and smaller returns. At the end of the day, we are all in this together.
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Easy peasy lemon squeasy. We leave earth and let some machines to clean up the earth while we are gone. 700 years later we send a robot to detect plant life which means that the earth is hospitable again. The we come back la.
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Originally posted by schmaltz:
If a homeless man were standing on the corner of a street as you were passing by, screaming "The world is coming to an end!" would you believe him?
Movies set aside, most would try not to make eye contact and walk by swiftly muttering, "He's crazy."
But what if this "insane" man's predictions came true? What if a fire started in your own backyard because of a drought or if your entire neighborhood was wiped out by a terrible monsoon one night?
Global warming is no longer the problem of our future generations. It is our problem.
Rising sea levels due to melting glaciers; droughts, monsoons, wildfires and greenhouse gasses are all natural disasters that have come to be known as not-so-natural.
How is something we can't control not natural? Its simple- these actions have been on the rise because of the effect of our every day lives on Mother Nature.
Whether it's a citizen's daily commute, running their clothes through a dryer in the middle of the day, watering their lawn during winter or even the kind of light bulbs they use, they have a bigger impact on the environment then they are aware of.
In fact, the United States only makes up four percent of the world's population but is responsible for an alarming 22 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main culprit for our greenhouse gas emissions. Earth is designed to hold just enough CO2 to create a warm blanket, therefore allowing life to form.
With Americans pumping out millions of pounds of carbon every day with our gas-guzzling cars and ruthless energy use, Mother Nature was bound to lash back sometime.
There's always the skeptic who couldn't possibly make the connection between them driving their car to work everyday and the polar ice caps melting at alarming rates.
Anyone who's taken a science class in their lifetime knows that heat melts ice. The more carbon released into the atmosphere, causes more heat to be trapped which means glaciers act as ice in a glass on a summer day in the Valley of the Sun.But what most people don't realize is how much carbon and even money they can save by carpooling with someone who is taking the same route. In a year, it can save 1,590 pounds of CO2 and hundreds of dollars.
Drastic climate changes aren't the only predictions in Earth's crystal ball.
Insect-born diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and encephalitis can be spread by mosquitoes and rodents who migrate to warmer areas.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), climate change contributes to 150,000 extra deaths a year. With the climate gradually getting worse, this number can easily be doubled in the next 25 years.
Respiratory problems are also in the future due to high levels of CO2 favoring the growth of ragweed and other pollen producers. The amount of pollen produced rises with CO2 emissions and therefore causes more asthma and allergy attacks.
For anyone living in Arizona with allergies or asthma, they might not even be able to imagine it being any worse with all of the dust and plants residing here.
This is the grim outlook of the world if people continue on the careless path of believing it will never happen to them. Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse, the advancement of our own society is finally fighting back.
Ok ok
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Originally posted by parn:
Ok ok
okok?
haha, okay.anymore views regarding this issue?
i need your views, coming out with a article in some magazine -
Originally posted by schmaltz:
okok?
haha, okay.anymore views regarding this issue?
i need your views, coming out with a article in some magazine
I know it's a scam so I don't bother to comment, cos do you think World Peace / Global Warming is more important to a guy compared to me?Of course I'm most important.
If you think World Peace / Global Warming is more important in your life and you're a guy, then you must be a LIAR.
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Originally posted by corebooster:
if we are meant to die one day, who bother so much? live life to the fullest and fufil our everyday needs.
Dun selfish leh, think for the next generation... It's like, I am going to die tomorrow, I might as well shit anywhere in the house, after i die i won't smell the stink anyway.