The media and government frequently turn our attention to the increase in disasters, real and projected, with which the world is or may be plagued. However, there is one aspect of 'human activity' they seem to have ignored in their doomsday analysis. Is there a link between the biomass of the population and the events they say are coming?
For years, they have blamed humans. They say we are too many, we consume too much, waste too much, and burn too much. They forget that the Icelandic eruption and the two eruptions of Mt. St. Helens in the 1980s belched more carbon compounds into the air each than all of recorded time since the Industrial Revolution. However, humans might be responsible. It might be our habits, but it might also be our habitations.
As civilization developed, we started to concentrate and congregate. Large cities grew, often in places that would without industrial innovation never contain enough resources to sustain such estensive accumulations of people (like Los Angeles or Las Vegas, which lack enough easily obtainable water to be anything more than the backwaters they once were). As we congregate, we also accumulate. Now, the amount of matter on the earth is conserved, but our activity relocates it. We move dirt and mountains quite literally to dig up stuff with which we manufacture other stuff and sell to people in other places. Could this put extra pressure on the earth's crust, causing the tectonic plates not only to shift but also to lean or sink, accounting for rising sea levels?
They blame it on temperature. The truth is that with increased temperature, we should also see higher levels of atmospheric precipitation accumulation. My brother's Geosystems textbook discusses that the con trails created by planes help block heat transfer. While they trap escaping heat, they would also prevent heat from accumulating. Perhaps we're at a point where the temperature is not high enough to evaporate the water, but eventually, rising temperatures should put so much water into the atmosphere via evaporation that it would either rain and cool the earth or block solar radiation from warming us in the first place. The con trails from air traffic alone affect the earth's daytime temperature by lowering it 1.67C.
Perhaps this phenomenon has already occured. Maybe that's what actually happened in the time of Noah. The earth warmed enough that water deluged from the sky.
Is there really a problem? Can man weigh down a plate of crust or really change the temperature? Is temperature really the concern? Is man a culprit? What about water? It's specific heat makes it not only the coolant of choice in our bodies but also for the earth. Almost every apocalyptic claim you hear from the fearmongering left is based on half truths and whole lies. They theorize without facts and then interpret the facts to fit their theories. I think it's extremely vain for people to think they have power to destroy the earth. As soon as the earth feels threatened, it will wipe us out, I guarantee it.
There is God and there is government. God is greater than government, and government doesn't like that. --Inga Barks
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