Sunday, February 8, 2009

Thoughts about the book etc.

After reading the book and getting a feel for the material i have come up with a few interesting thoughts that i would like to share. I have noticed in my dealings with people, the only way they do something is if it makes sense to them. To some people global warming and the degradation of the planet seems as if its not happening. So if we come up with some sort of widely accepted theory or hypothesis about past events in which sparked complete global meltdown maybe people will start to listen. I know this may seem a little outside of the box but, hear me out. There is one important things in common between the dinosaurs and us they were, and we are both multi cellular organisms that have inhabited this planet. we both create waste in the form of CO2 greenhouse causing gas. If livestock contributes to most of the greenhouse gasses today one can only imagine the amount created by dinosaurs. I believe that the process of the dinosaurs making greenhouse gasses warmed the environment up, melting the glaciers, putting more fresh water into the ocean, making a more tropical environment because it rained more creating more food for the dinosaurs making the environment worse. Then so much freshwater went into the ocean it shifted the current going up to Europe turning our planet into an ice ball making the ice age, which in turn caused mass extinction of a species. This is a prime example of a positive feedback chain and everything matches up to our current status. I'm not saying this is true by any means it is just a hypothesis. If something like this became a widely accepted theory maybe people would start to listen more and learn from history.

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