Re: The Dam Ozone hole

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:48:31 -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:23:01 -0700, doc@xxxxxx wrote:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:58:56 -0400, Stuart Krivis
<jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:29:23 -0700, doc@xxxxxx wrote:

The Dam "hole" has been there for centuries. It is only recent that
we can detect it! We need to watch our waste but to think we are
making sword wide climate change is a bit egotistical.

We can't make wide climate changes? Like all the desert in the Middle
East that used to be forested, fertile land?

Or how about the Dustbowl of the 1930's?

Even the oil wells that Saddam set on fire affected the entire world.

It's egotistical to assume that God gave us the Earth and all
creatures to do with what we will.

It is not egotistical to observe that our actions are having an effect
on the whole planet.


All of which were temporary or very small parts of the whole, I might
point out.

Moving the goalposts? Temporary effects don't count?

How big does something have to be before _it_ counts?

We observed that the hole in the ozone layer is growing larger. We
stopped releasing as much CFCs, and now the hole is shrinking again.
Sounds like cause and effect to me.

It seems that it is no longer possible to get tuna that doesn't have
mercury in it. There are traces of DDT in large portions of the world.
PCBs are a common pollutant. We've polluted entire river systems. We
drained an entire deep aquifer under a large part of the North
American continent in a few years. We've reduced the water table so
much in many coastal areas that we're seeing subsidence and brine
infiltration. There's even some speculation that we're causing
earthquakes (deep injection wells).


These are all things that we can now do not too much about.
Thankfully, we have learned a lot of lessons, so the impact on the planet
will be far less than it would have been had we continued the way we were.

And i think deep injection wells have about the same impact as a gnat
nibbling your bum! ;)




I don't see that it's egotistical to admit that we could be causing
major problems globally and that we should do what we can to stop
fouling our nest.

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