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A sick planet equates a sick economy.
Hello everyone. Today I was out driving my
car and it was twilight. I began thinking to myself. "Is it possible to have a strong Economy on a sick planet"? Say for instance hypothetically speaking that what Gore and his team of scientists are saying about Global Climate Change is true. In that case all the rest of it is true too. The fact that even a 1 to 2 degree change in our usual temperature patters can devastate whole crop yields. In other words, if the planet is sick that would mean serious devastation to crops around the globe that become damaged. Sure the insurance would pay for it. But only up to a certain extent. For instance. After Hurricane Katrina home insurance companies had to pay up billions and billions of dollars worth of insurance claims. Most of it still hasn't been paid as the insurance companies ended up becoming bankrupt. This is one example of how insurance doesn't always work. And when it does work, the money they pay up might not be enough. One family only got back enough money for a new roof, but not enough for a whole new house that they needed. So if crops do become damaged and unsellable because of global climate change. Than this would be one clear example of how a sick planet would equate for us a sick economy. But how might it be you ask that a sick planet would only have a sick economy. Can't we improvise? I'm sure to a small extent we can get by through technological knowhow. You might have multi billionaires investing billions of their dollars to zone off large tracts of land as green belts. They would pay thousands upon thousands of workers to plant several thousand trees to bring back the rain forests. Whole regions of the world would come together to improvise. For example NYC, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Maryland might get together to fund a DOME project. To pay for a DOME that would be made of some type of synthetic material still unknown to man yet that will COVER that ENTIRE region of the Earth. Allowing Several billion of it's residents to breath freely and live life in modern comfort in a controlled environment. 77 Degrees year round. No snow, no pollution. Only electric and fuel cell cars allowed inside the dome. Airplanes would have to land outside the Dome and passengers brought in and out through a high speed subway system not in place yet. Say for example the first Domed cities in America are located in what is now today farm country. Say the farmers came together to dome thousands of square miles in order to grow their crops in a controlled environment since they simply will not grow anymore due to global climate change and all the air pollution. Say it was later discovered that the land inside the Dome would be more profitable for residential and commercial projects where some of the first people in the future can live their lives in luxury in a completely controlled environment. So the cities took over and kicked the farmers out. What other examples of signs of a crippled economy due to a sick planet besides loss in crop production. Well there's also the train reaction. The lost crops mean less money for the growers. The growers can than no longer spend money to pay for other stuff so other businesses loose money since nobody is buying their goods. Also of course the price of food goes up. If the price of food goes up everyone that needs to eat will have less money to spend on entertainment and a bunch of other stuff they would have spent with their money. those other businesses that have lost profit then have even less money to pay for extra luxuries and would have to cut back even more. It's an endless vicious cycle. And many will suffer both directly and indirectly. Restaurants would be devastated. With food being so expensive people will try to find all sorts of ways to spend less on it. Going out to eat would be thought of as a big waste of money. Think $99 for each person to eat not including drinks and desert. Prime rib would be $60 an ounce. So the whole Hospitality/Restaurant section of the economy takes a huge nose dive. Where else does a sick planet hurt the economy? Well maybe more people will begin to take notice of all the chaos and they would start tossing their money in a bank account instead of investing it or otherwise spending it on stuff they thought they might have enjoyed. So right there is the whole psychological affect of it. Oh and there's got to be more. On a sick planet, won't less people be willing to leave their house because it's too uncomfortably hot in the summer? Christ, in Texas it can get upwards of 107 degrees some days in San Antonio. What if due to global climate change San Antonio a city of 3 million experiences temperatures of 115+ degrees 14 days of the summer with high humidity? Who would want to leave the comforts of their air conditioned house if they don't have to really go out and sweat it? Less people out and about in a city means less money circulating around. Susan wouldn't have gone to Starbucks. Mike wouldn't have gone to Circuit city. James would have taken his family to the amusement park but because of the high temperatures the park closed it's doors until further notice. And on and on and on it goes. Now imagine that the problem was multiplied by 1,000 including the rest of the planet factored in? Think 104 degrees in Los Angeles! When it normally never gets hotter than 89 degrees. Not everyone has air conditioning in that city. Many will die of a heat stroke. And less people alive means less goods and produce consumed and less money exchanged. Directly affecting the economy. Not to mention all the plants and animals that became extinct because they could not adapt to the Earth's changing climate. Isn't anybody worried here? I sure am. If what Gore is saying is true. I'm sure the above would happen at least to some type of extent. All of this would take place within our lifetimes. Up to a certain extent of course. East- |
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> wrote > Say for instance hypothetically speaking that what Gore and his team of > scientists are saying about Global Climate Change is true. It's like a room full of typewriters and monkeys. Eventually ............ Well, AlGore finally said something relevant. He's right. He's hitching his wagon to this star, never really coming up with the idea on his own, yet, if he, as a public figure, can draw some attention to this, it is a good thing. Our BIGGEST PROBLEM over the next fifty years is global warming. I was pessimistic, but the info is in. Warmer temps. The last 15 years have set high temp records everywhere. AND THE CLINCHER, armadillos are moving northward. Something they could not do if the weather was not getting warmer. So, even with all the shrieking and hand wringing, and Hollywood neurotics wailing, we do have some real proof that this is happening. I won't be here long enough to see it, but I fear for my children and those left. Bad part is, that a lot of the causes are poverty and ignorance, and there is little chance of fixing that in the countries that welcome industry, and who are cutting down trees at a lethal rate. Steve |
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:37:32 -0800, "Steve B" >
wrote: >Our BIGGEST PROBLEM over the next fifty years is global warming. I was >pessimistic, but the info is in. Warmer temps. The last 15 years have set >high temp records everywhere. ****ing moron. 15 years ago Time and other magazines were running headlines about global cooling being the biggest problem over the next 50 years. Read my lips - the media is all about entertainment now, not news. If you hear it on cnn you can be sure it is false. |
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"DTJ" > wrote in message ... > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:37:32 -0800, "Steve B" > > wrote: > >>Our BIGGEST PROBLEM over the next fifty years is global warming. I was >>pessimistic, but the info is in. Warmer temps. The last 15 years have >>set >>high temp records everywhere. > > ****ing moron. > > 15 years ago Time and other magazines were running headlines about > global cooling being the biggest problem over the next 50 years. > > Read my lips - the media is all about entertainment now, not news. If > you hear it on cnn you can be sure it is false. READ MY LIPS ............... I didn't say that you needed to absolutely believe everything I wrote. I was just stating my opinion. History and time will prove who is right and who is wrong. I can now emphatically state that perhaps I will be proven wrong over the course of time and history. You, on the other hand, cannot make such a statement. If you are so smart, why are you referring to 15 year old articles about global cooling when the current topic is global WARMING? And CNN is in upper case letters. Read my lips ........ PPPPFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTT! Be gone. Steve |
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