Doing it wrong.

We humans have been a pretty cheeky bunch.
We’d find a nice looking place, destroy everything in it for food or profit, drain all the resources out of the place, and then move on. And it was good, right? Exept now, the problems this has created it not only affecting animals… it’s affecting us. No wai. That can’t happen. Surely there is a way we can mangle the earth that little bit more, to make it better for us. Preferably a way that allows us to keep our cars, our GM foods, and our widescreen televisions.*

Enter the power of science! (click me)
Or, just look at the nice picture below. It pretty much sums it up.

It’s strangely fascinating, seeing how the scientists are planning on dragging us back from the brink; then you notice that some of these methods won’t be availible for hundreds of years, and all have the possibility of horrific ramifications. Yeah, dumping a metric ass-load of limestone in the oceans sounds like a great idea, until it turns out that’s killed off all the fish.

And sure, aerosols being released into the atmosphere to block out the sun will definatly improve the state of the planet.
In fact, they did that in The Matrix. And look where it got them.**

Personally, I think if we humans want to live comfortably on this earth for another few hundred years, it’s going to take a bit more sacrifice on our part. It’s not enough to block out the sun and hope that doesn’t detroy us.
The only plan on the diagram above that I agree with is the tree-planting idea. Come on, people!
Let’s save the world!***

*This was sarcasm
**In The Matrix, the humans blocked the sun to cut off the machines’ main source of power. Result? Machines start growing humans as thier new energy source. The moral of this story is stop fucking with the atmosphere.
***I can’t do it on my own, after all. Awesome though I am.

~ by abisnail on 25 February, 2009.