Someone recently brought arsenic into the debate, so I want to expand on that. Hopefully I will not be reported for a violation, again. I know I run the risk, since I am challenging the dogma.
Here is my premise. Isn't it true that if we drink water with tiny amounts of arsenic in it, the arsenic will gradually build up in our system and we will die? The arsenic is a poison to our system. Lets assume I purposefully drop small amounts into someone's morning coffee, every day. If they die in a month of arsenic poison, the police would charge me with murder.
How does this compare to global warming? Well, the AGW crowd tells us that human use of fossil fuels creates vast quantities of CO2 that is the primary cause of global warming. Further we are supposed to believe that global warming is bad now and accelerating at an alarming pace. Eventually, the earth will be uninhabitable. In effect, burning fossil fuels is killing future generations.
Is starting my car murder?
2007-11-22 02:41:52 · 8 answers · asked by Will 2 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
No but if you drive your car into a bunch of tree huggers it might be murder?
2007-11-22 04:03:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Global warming will not kill people. There is not enough coal and oil in the world to make enough CO2 to warm the planet enough to kill off life, even if we burned every bit of it. It will warm a few degrees at the most. The weather may change and the polar ice may melt and polar bears may loose habitat, but life will thrive otherwise. Warm weather is better for life in general than cold weather. So just forget this nonsense that global warming will kill us all. It will NOT.
The real problem is that we could very well burn all the coal and oil in the world and then it would be gone. Then nobody could start a car and our modern civilization would collapse into poverty, famine, and war. Unless we develop alternative energy sources that do not need coal or oil we are doomed. So the crime is not starting a car, the crime is not finding new energy sources.
2007-11-22 02:48:45 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Doritos puts MSG in their chips. MSG is known excito-toxin. It's addictive and stimulates our cells so much that they die. Our bodies has cells dieing all the time. MSG only speeds up this rate. The is known as a carcinogen (causes cancer). Huge amounts of MSG will cause cancer to the average human.
Co2 emissions can be absorbed through plants, cleaned and converted to less harmful and even beneficial gases. Huge amounts of Co2 will cause global warming.
My point is both create results slowly. We live in a world that demands direct answers that happen now, not tomorrow. Is Doritos murdering their customers; yes! Is driving our cars murdering life on planet earth; yes! It's just not doing it in a short time.
Which are you? Or rather is short term results any different than long term results?
2007-11-22 05:29:17 · answer #3 · answered by Aaron M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
arsenic is also used to treat cancer.
every thing has its good and bad.
where does the global warming people claim that it will make earth uninhabitable.
you better check your facts.
it may change the weather but the global warming people still can not show that it will be a bad thing for humans.
they still can not even prove global warming caused by humans exists.
2007-11-22 15:38:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, many heads of state used to take small amounts of arsenic in their meals every day in order to build up a tolerance (i.e. physically adapt). Humans will physically adapt as well. We may have to live underground, we may see a dramatic change in our life styles. We could lose 5 billion people and be technologically kicked back into another Dark Age. But we will survive, the planet will cool off and the whole process of rehabitation will start over again. So you are not a murderer by starting your car, you a motivator of change.
2007-11-22 03:47:12 · answer #5 · answered by Eric W 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
dana1981 was the user who brought up the topic of arsenic as a comparison to the fact the small amounts of things can be deadly. Many of the answers to his qyestion, including my own, said that his argument (and yours) would have been valid if CO2 was a potent greenhouse gas, just as arsenic is an extremely toxic poison. But CO2 happens to be a very weak greenhouse gas. Methane is thirty times stronger, but even that is not as powerful as water vapor. So no, you're not murdering anyone.
2007-11-22 02:53:44 · answer #6 · answered by punker_rocker 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Yes if you are drunk !
2007-11-22 04:46:48 · answer #7 · answered by PragmaticAlien 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-11-22 03:34:57 · answer #8 · answered by Jesse 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋