Poll: Earth SoS -..-..-..-

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Ahh, good plan, make a thread on a fucking gaming forum, that will help the environment.

Nice going.

 

[Hoxton]

Ahh, good plan, make a thread on a fucking gaming forum, that will help the environment.

Nice going.

Yeah because everything else on the 'off-topic forums has everything to do with gaming does it?

 

[Anton P. Nym]

The Earth and its inhabbitants always fix itself, its nature.

Say hi to the dinosaurs for me, would ya? I miss them terribly.

As for the rest, I'd suggest reading http://www.withouthotair.com/ for more information on what's plausible to try.

Me? I'm using CF bulbs and public transit already; green or not, it saves me a ton of money that I get to spend on games instead.

-- Steve

 

[yosophat]

Nuclear fusion plants might be the answer. If only the implementation was a bit more practical than it currently is.

Nuclear Power accounts for 19% of the UK's Energy Generation, and that is from about only 10 plants.

But yeah, Fusion would be perfect.

You guys either mean fission or there are Hydrogen Fusion plants that I don't know about.

I would like to see more recycling program sponsored by the government instead of this voluntary crap.

 

[walls of cetepedes]

Nuclear fusion plants might be the answer. If only the implementation was a bit more practical than it currently is.

Nuclear Power accounts for 19% of the UK's Energy Generation, and that is from about only 10 plants.

But yeah, Fusion would be perfect.

You guys either mean fission or there are Hydrogen Fusion plants that I don't know about.

I would like to see more recycling program sponsored by the government instead of this voluntary crap.

Well, Hydrogen Fusion isn't available yet, but it was what I was talking about. I don't know about the other guy, though.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

The solution is really quite obvious, here.​

 

[ae86gamer]

Honestly, I don't care. I'm gonna be dead within the next 50-60 years, so I don't really care. And before someone quotes me and saids "What about your descendants?" my answer to that is also "I don't care."

 

[General Vagueness]

Yes something drastic should be done.
No I'm not going to give my hard earned money when other, richer, people could but aren't

So generous and

Honestly, I don't care. I'm gonna be dead within the next 50-60 years, so I don't really care. And before someone quotes me and saids "What about your descendants?" my answer to that is also "I don't care."

forward-thinking. Yeah, no.

Not a problem.

But seriously, humanity does not deserve this planet so I really couldn't give a damn.

Oh noes our planet is dying. We have to do something. /sarcasm

Chances are humanity will not be on this Earth at the end of the century because we will have nuked the hell out of each other. I for one would rather live my life with no regard to the planet because I'm human and as a human I am a worthless waste of Carbon, water and other assorted elements.

As a human, no; as someone who is letting his home go down the tubes, maybe.

Well, global warming/cooling/whatever may be natural phenomenon,but we do have problems with an actual pollution - Nitrous Oxide, Sulfur Oxide, that kind of stuff - and deforestation. We have to drastically cut down on the whole "mindless consumerism" thing and conserve our resources.

^ this
It upsets me in a rather unique and strong way that people seem to think that since "the climate isn't changing", or because "it's changing so slowly", and they don't care about most of the species on Earth, it's OK to pump thousands of tons of noxious chemicals into our air.

Also Morse code for SOS is ...---...

 

[Aunel]

Oh. You're one of those people.

Climate change is a natural phenomenon and can't be stopped. End of story.

hear hear.

the whole human made global warming is just the media.
I feel like a conspiracy theory idiot now.

 

[zerzxes]

I do belive something must be done to stop this.

my personal motto on this subject: I am too lazy too do anything and will let others fix/fuck it as I don't bother to object.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

OT you left out the part in your little timeline where it says that the world's climate changes every couple million years or so. When was the last ice age? Something liek 20 mil? I think were in for it anyway.

And another point, 1 century is not enough time to fuck the entire planet. It is however, enough time to fuck us. The earth isn't in risk, but humanity is. So don't worry about the planet, it's doing fine.

And as my geography teacher put it, the earth is billions of years old. Humanity has only been around for a couple millions years, and only civilized for a couple thousand. On the grand scale of things, at the moment, humanity is the equvilant to one paragraph in earths history. So don't worry, we wont be missed.

I agree with renwable energy and better recycling, but for different reasons, mainly that we are running out of reasources, not because "The world is comming to an end because I didnt recycle my aluminum can!!"

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

I think switching to alternative power sources is vital...

Nope.
They are terribly expensive, and Wind Turbines disrupt wildlife, along with Tidal Power generator screwing up the tides.

Nuclear Power is the way, but only if we can get rid of the waste without dumping it in the sea.

Edit: Oh, and something has to be done about England's abysmal Recycling Process. You can't recycle a ton of things, that they did last year. They are too half-assed about it.

1) How the hell do do wind turbines disrupt wildlife?

2) Screwing up the Tides?
wakes of large/fast ships already do that

3) If you mean Fusion I'm all for it, but the waste material from Fission is to dangerous.

 

[walls of cetepedes]

1) How the hell do do wind turbines disrupt wildlife?

2) Screwing up the Tides?
wakes of large/fast ships already do that

3) If you mean Fusion I'm all for it, but the waste material from Fission is to dangerous.

I'm getting all this from what I was taught in school, so if you have a problem, take it up with the British Education system.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

I bet if all the money that has been spent on "Going green" was spent on space reaserch, we could have:
1)An orbital elivator,Improved cryogenics and faster ships
or
3)A colony on Mars, The Moon, or colony on a space station

Which of course, we could then put nuclear power plants in space, and eliminate the whole fossil fuels problem.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

1) How the hell do do wind turbines disrupt wildlife?

Noise pollution (not in our normal range of hearing, but in subsonic harmonics... it also seems to foul up some bat species' echolocation), the collision hazard, and it can create pockets of low-pressure air that damages the lungs of birds flying through them. The magnitude of the problems is exaggerated by folks working to discredit wind turbines, but they are there and do need to be addressed.

-- Steve

 

[Dax317]

I don't care.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

1) How the hell do do wind turbines disrupt wildlife?

Noise pollution (not in our normal range of hearing, but in subsonic harmonics... it also seems to foul up some bat species' echolocation), the collision hazard, and it can create pockets of low-pressure air that damages the lungs of birds flying through them. The magnitude of the problems is exaggerated by folks working to discredit wind turbines, but they are there and do need to be addressed.

-- Steve

Any bird stupid enough to fly into a windmill the size of a 747, which moves very slowly, and situated atop a extremely windy mountain range isn't getting sympathy from me.

As for the bat problem, New Zealand's only native bat acts more like a mouse.

 

[Charli]

Im always of the mindset that if we don't fix this mess, Mother Earth will fix us real good and be rid of us through some means. Weather, disease. God knows what else.
It's a cycle. I have other worries right now... yet another product of our stupid 'society' but it means the safety of those I love so I'd rather focus on that than save the planet right now, hard as that may be for some to grasp.

I recycle when I can, I don't go out of my way to cause pollution and if a mass uprising in the face of hard evidence that the earth is indeed dying, I won't hesitate to lend a hand. But our science is incomplete, everyone forgets that. And I can't focus the energy right now to that cause when as a human being I have more horrible, immediate things weighing on my mind. Call me selfish, whatever, love to see anyone else react any different in a situation I'm in and I'm sticking with how I'm handling my presence on Terra Firma for now.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

"I don't care."
My thoughts exactly. I understand that it is a fairly important topic but talking about it won't help. At all.

Not necessarily. There are some environmental problems that could be solved if more people were aware of them. For example, on of the main causes of plastic pollution in the ocean is people not disposing of their trash properly. If more people were aware of the impact this has and the dangers of plastic pollution, we could probably reduce it.

I don't want to sound like a humanity-hating asshole-envronmentalist, but no one is going to do it. All ecology essentially does is annoy us to the point where we don't give a crap about the environment at all.

 

[Valate_v1legacy]

Your years are off, there werent people 200 million years ago... Or we would have already solved this problem quite a while ago.