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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Is this what we new world Americans want?

How many humans on the earth is enough, or too many? What are the energy expectations of fellow humans who come to know the benefits of public electricity, for example. Clean water comes to mind.

Depending on your own experience and thoughts, make up your own mind, which most will do naturally. One old line comes to mind: we can dictate how to act, but we can never dictate what to think.

Is global warming human caused, or mother nature caused these days? Again, make up your own mind. Just keep in mind the greenhouse effect is how our present earth works today, and has for a very long time. Even when the last ice age which ended about 10,000 years ago, New York City and much of northern USA and most of Canada was under the ice. As recently as where I live on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, about 200 years ago much of what is now poorly forested land (it has always been do to the acidic soil) was open land with Eastern Buffalo and Elk, and we humans had something to do with this present day, both ways. By the way, we were not under the ice where I live, but it was obviously cold, kind of like our image of northern Siberia today.

Now the latest human fad about being an environmentalist has started to affect many humans. Here is a link as to one story:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100908/D9I3MD9O0.html

Is that what we new world Americans want as a solution?

Here’s another quote from presidential candidate Obama in 2008:

"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."

Is that what we new world Americans want as a solution?

Another question I ask, and I still don’t have an answer, is did now President Obama in the USA raise these kind of questions to be a priority human political question, or was it going to happen anyway?

In other words, there are alternatives to how to make things happen in our present world. This thought suggests timing comes into play.

Let me start with three questions?
• What is the problem?
• Is it human caused?
• If you don’t like the present benefits of global warming (like food from expanded grain belts), what do you think we humans should do, and how quickly, i.e. suggest alternatives we can think about, and vote on later.

As a new world American I don’t like the present day Chinese solution, by the way. But that is just my opinion.

Anyway, we do have alternatives. One solution is what our present USA political leadership is trying to do. Of course, this assumes we humans can still vote, and have it count. In this case, then we do have alternatives.

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