I seperated the posts so two ideas would not conflict in the minds of the rest of you reading my perhaps insane views. (Sorry, I care about the Earth)
Anyway: Here is the short and sweet story.
We broke the atmosphere. That isn't good, because skin cancer NEVER compliments your tan. We wanted to fix it proving that deep down, humanity isn't *entirly* heartless and evil.
[Fail]
We made it worse, the fix-it chemical that we dumped made it worse.
"In the atmosphere, these replacement chemicals act like "super" greenhouse gases, with a heat-trapping power that can be 4,470 times that of carbon dioxide. " - curtosy of the Washington Post. (Interestingly [in this case frustratingly] enough this article is not a major story.)
The article can be found here, because it was taken down already. I am biased, I know, but I would show this everyday, for at least a week, IN ALL CAPS.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901817.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
Did anyone notice this: We tried to fix a problem caused by humans dumping chemicals, BY DUMPING MORE CHEMICALS.
I am not a scientist, I am little but a very angry civillian... AND EVEN I KNOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE A BAD IDEA.
Yes, I know... In the situation the faced I might have made the same mistake. Still why didn't we see this coming?
AND WHY ISN'T THIS STORY IN CAPS ON EVERY FRONT PAGE OF EVERY NEWSPAPER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD?
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I totally understand your strong views on this issue Will.
ReplyDeleteI read parts of the article and it really opened my eyes. It's quite astonishing how something we thought would help the atmosphere is actually beginning to do harm.
I'm guessing the reason why this article isn't being stressed as much as you'd like is because it just isn't at its extreme...yet. Once this blows up and more problems start to rise I'm sure it will have as much popularity as did Sotomayor.
Pretty much when it's too late.
ReplyDeleteI apologize everyone for my humiliating outburst here.