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- Hi, I'm Cheryl, a geochemist with an interest for sustainable development.
- I hope to spend about 3 months in Africa from May to September 2007. stay on track here, or at geocheryl.com
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anno 2004; will be updated soon
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2 comments:
While killing yourself to save the planet may seem like a jolly good idea, the truth is that it's a lot harder to destroy a planet than you might think. Certainly us dumb humans wont be able to blow up the planet just yet or wipe out all life as we know it.
Forcing a big asteroid to collide with the Earth or maybe a planet such as Mars?
Creating a stable black hole or bring a black hole to earth?
Dig up Earth and shoot the debris into space?
Earth eaten by Von Neumann machines?
Slingshot the Earth into the sun?
Destroyed by anti-matter?
Or just wait another 5 Billion years for the sun to exhaust its H2 fuel.
Robert,
I think, I really have to disagree with you here! Alright, killing yourself is not the way to go. Human kind is part of this world and is at least as valuable as other living things on this planet! I actually wonder what the picture of this post really is about (is it really meant to kill yourself and save the planet, Cheryl?)
The story about climate change and stuff, I think is not really interesting as well. I mean, adaption is a major quality the world exhibits and will prove to be so again. The world however is devasted in the way we know it! And WE are the cause, with our development and presence. Its cover (the sphere we really see, enjoy and live!) has severely been changed for the benefit of human kind. I think the question here is, if we (as human beings) wanted to change the earth as we knew it! Do we want to be the cause of disappearance (and appearance) of species? Is this change a bad thing?
Personally, I think the change is not good.
I would like to see human kind making a step backward. Problem is that there are not a lot of people thinking the same way...
So, to be realistic. The world is changing and it will continue! Destruction of the earth will not be in our power, as you said. But I don't want to see human kind destroying part of this beautifull world, although it is only temporal and limited to its cover! This cover is the most interesting part of my own and my children childrens temporal life!
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