Comments on: Global warming: fun for the whole family http://www.moretorah.com/2006/09/26/global-warming-fun-for-the-whole-family/ Fri, 18 May 2012 21:24:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: roman http://www.moretorah.com/2006/09/26/global-warming-fun-for-the-whole-family/#comment-815 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:41:53 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2006/09/26/global-warming-fun-for-the-whole-family/#comment-815 suggestion: see and inconvient truth, it is the al gore movie about global warming, well either that or spend days researching, but if you want most of the facts with a lot of emotion and sad music then that is the movie for you. He has a lot of statistics that it took me weeks to find elsewhere, and it is also not fatalistic or selling anything, well perhaps lightbulbs. Goodluck and i hope to see you soon. suggestion:

see and inconvient truth, it is the al gore movie about global warming, well either that or spend days researching, but if you want most of the facts with a lot of emotion and sad music then that is the movie for you. He has a lot of statistics that it took me weeks to find elsewhere, and it is also not fatalistic or selling anything, well perhaps lightbulbs. Goodluck and i hope to see you soon.

]]> by: Nick Joe http://www.moretorah.com/2006/09/26/global-warming-fun-for-the-whole-family/#comment-814 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:54:08 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2006/09/26/global-warming-fun-for-the-whole-family/#comment-814 Wow. A real tour de force by the Senator. Though I fell asleep in the middle, as near as I can gather, his central claim is "people have been wrong before, therefore they're probably wrong now." I don't think I need to explicitly point out the fallacy in this type of thinking. There is no question that humans have had and are continuing to have a destructive impact on the environment. Arguing over whether "global warming" is real is a red herring. Forests, arable land, drinkable water and fisheries are all in decline. New technologies won't solve these problems(in fact technology has only increased the pace of destruction). Would that our leaders address these issues rather than stall and roadblock so that their real constituents(Oklahoma is a big oil-producing state) can continue to destroy non-replaceable resources. And while I certainly agree that cleaning up oneself is in order, being blind to the future suffering of billions can't be good for one's spiritual health. Beliveing that humans can cause irreperable damage to the Earth isn't a lack of faith, it's a wanton act of foolishness. Nobody would poor arsenic into their town's well and expect it to disappear; why is this less problematic to people when it's on a grander scale and can cause far more harm? Wow. A real tour de force by the Senator. Though I fell asleep in the middle, as near as I can gather, his central claim is “people have been wrong before, therefore they’re probably wrong now.” I don’t think I need to explicitly point out the fallacy in this type of thinking. There is no question that humans have had and are continuing to have a destructive impact on the environment. Arguing over whether “global warming” is real is a red herring. Forests, arable land, drinkable water and fisheries are all in decline. New technologies won’t solve these problems(in fact technology has only increased the pace of destruction). Would that our leaders address these issues rather than stall and roadblock so that their real constituents(Oklahoma is a big oil-producing state) can continue to destroy non-replaceable resources. And while I certainly agree that cleaning up oneself is in order, being blind to the future suffering of billions can’t be good for one’s spiritual health. Beliveing that humans can cause irreperable damage to the Earth isn’t a lack of faith, it’s a wanton act of foolishness. Nobody would poor arsenic into their town’s well and expect it to disappear; why is this less problematic to people when it’s on a grander scale and can cause far more harm?

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