I know I posted this once before somewhere, but I feel I should again. I saw a to scale picture of the earth as seen from space. It also showed the thickness of the atmosphere. Even though the total measurable atmosphere was a little thicker, the part that humans can live comfortably in is at the surface of the planet and it literally looked like the thickness of a piece of paper when compared to the planet. Next it showed pictures of industrial areas, all around the globe. Huge smoke stacks pumping out crap into our skies, 24hrs a day, 7days a week, 365 days a year. Then there were pictures of large cities from a distance away. You can literally see a dome of smog over most modern cities. I still say that anyone who thinks we can’t harm our planet by burning fossil fuels is blind. If you run a car in your garage for several minutes with the doors closed it is a great way to kill yourself. Multiply how many cars are in the world and add in all the smokestacks and you should realize that our planet is only so big, and although it can handle a lot of pollution, there is a limit. To me it is just common sense to not want to pollute the air we breathe. As far as global warming, all the particulates we are putting in the atmosphere make it thicker, which does hold heat more than a thinner and clear atmosphere. That is a simple science project that can be measured. Now, with all that said, do I want to live without electricity and walk everywhere? Hell no. I do think we should be working a lot harder to develope new and cleaner energy sources though. Energy is amazingly abundant on this planet and all through the universe. The main reason we haven’t pursued these cleaner ways is simple, greed. There are whole industries and economies making an easy profit off oil. Why would they want to disrupt their profits? All I know for sure is it is past time for us to get serious about developing new and cleaner sources. It would suck for our grandchildren to not be able to go outside without a respirator.
