Ten Thousand Motels wrote on May 18
th, 2009 at 1:50pm:
I've seen these theories before, and have trouble wrapping my mind around the possibility.
There are a lot of accusations that line up with tangible evidence however. Scary.
The ever increasing extinction rate is real, and very bad news for life on Earth.
So many people write off global warming as rising waters, so what's a few more degrees right.
Well, it's not about us directly. It's about Earth's micro ecosystems and our indirect reliance on them.
We chop down rain forests to graze cattle that will become Big Macs. But those trees are what
pull CO2 out of the atmosphere to keep a balance. And the 30g of fat ain't helping us either.
My evangelical friends ALL believe Earth will end when God ends it. They cannot be swayed.
The waters rising is a red herring.
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old.
If you equate that into an hour, the first 50 minutes are mostly single cell organisms.
Animal life appeared in the last 10 minutes of that hour.
Humans arrived on the scene in the last 1/100th of a second.
There have been 5 major extinctions in the 4.6 billion years of Earth.
Most scientists believe the 6th will be humans doing. Pretty fast work huh . . .