It turns out that the CO2 produced from modern industrial/manufacturing processes, combined with the use of coal used in producing electricity (and the burning of fuel by cars, trucks and airplanes), can be scientifically distinguished from the CO2 that is belched out of volcanoes. It's also measurably true that the former kind of CO2 is now a vastly larger (and rapidly growing) component of our atmosphere than is the latter.
Then too there is the gradually melting arctic permafrost vegetation, long dead, which, as the planet continues to warm, and the dead vegetation thaws out and rots, will emit millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere. This poses a huge danger since methane is an even deadlier (i.e. more reflective) greenhouse gas than CO2. Then too, as the arctic ice melts and its surface area shrinks, ever less sunlight will be reflected back into space from (highly reflective) ice, and ever more of it will be absorbed by the dark (and thus heat absorbing) ocean thus warming it at an accelerating rate.
Finally there is the concern that as the ocean absorbs ever more of the excessive CO2 in the atmosphere, it (the ocean) will become ever more acidic (by way of carbonic acid which thereby forms), a process that will gradually kill ever more marine life. Eventually, all that will be left in the oceans are jelly fish and a few other species useless to mankind as food. And so millions more people will likely starve.
Planetary suicide (ecocide) is underway my friends, and blind as most of us are, we are doing nowhere near enough to stop it. Worst of all are the damn fools who deny that mankind's hyper-production industrial procedures, hyper-consumption habits, and internal combustion engines are the cause of the overall process that is gradually unfolding.
As the glaciers disappear, the rivers (coming from those glaciers), which provide crop irrigation for the people of Asia, will also shrink and eventually all but disappear, and then millions of Asians will starve. And, as the oceans rise with the melting arctic and Greenland ice sheets, huge amounts of coastal land will be submerged and coastal cities will be, too.
And here come the rants from the world's greatest fools:
"But godamit, we gotta keep this (hyperproduction-hyperconsumption treadmill) going, (no matter what the ultimate cost to our planet)! We need our 'stuff'!! And we WILL not be denied! WE have a right to the (bourgeois/affluent) "good life," no matter what the cost to our children and grandchildren and their children. So fu*k'em. It's not our problem."
"Did you actually say we should share the fundamentally important work that remains, now that computers and automation are doing ever more of that work, and thereby give every worker more leisure time as well as a chance to participate in, and do their share of, that remaining work, and then somehow make sure that every worker-participant in this enterprise be guaranteed a chance to work part time and thereby receive a fair share of these basic goods and services?" Well then, here's my answer: Hell no!"
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