Death threats, beatings, rape... these actions do not sound like those of people who could profess to be Christians.
The Crusades, the Inquisition, the witch burnings, Joan of Arc's execution, the Catholic/Protestant war in Northern Ireland, the lynchings of blacks, the murders and rapes and beatings of gay and transgendered people, the Ku Klux Klan, the genocide of the indigenous Americans... and the list could go on and on were all done by self-identified Christians. Read the Population thread, Dr. Who and I are discussing the Biblical genesis of many cruel and insanely violent acts that can be traced back to things that God is supposed to have ordered or given permission for--something I have serious doubts about. Are you married? Would you have paid 200 human foreskins for your wife? King David did in the Bible, he killed 200 Philistines and cut off their foreskins to give to Saul for his daughter's hand in marriage. Doesn't sound particularly godly to me, does it to you?
I suppose you think humans are also to blame for the inner planets warming?
Senseless sarcasm like this does nothing to foster your credibility. Are you aware of the warming of the other planets in our solar system?
We as in America, or we as in Human beings as a whole? Because I hate to break it to you but India, China, Russia and several other major CO2 "polluters" could care less about your claims of MMCC and laugh in your general direction.
Does that make them right?
As for America clear cutting forests and other CO2 eating foliage...I can take a leak in the ocean and technically I've added to the rising of the sea level but realistically, its not relevant. The same is true for MMCO2 emissions, compared to the natural fluctuation of CO2, our impact is insignificant.
The sewage pollution that closes so many beaches around the world and pollutes so many water ways is not caused by humans?
A more apt analogy would be picking lint off the blankets, since that's about all we have control over.
From your perspective, do humans have
any substantive impact on the Earth?
Blaming technology and population is patently absurd. As we progress technilogically, we massively reduce our impact on the environment. In the 70's we saw smog over every major city, and notice that we no longer have such things as smog, acid rain and the other pollution plagues of the 70's, that's thanks to technology.
I didn't blame techonolgy per se, it's the things that technology allows us to do. We had bad smog problems before we cleaned up auto exhaust, how do you think the world's air quality will be affected when India and China have the same auto density numbers that we have?
I'm not accusing every issue of being a hoax, only in this case MMCC.
Unlike you, I'm not willing to dismiss our impact until I have far more proof one way or the other, I have a pretty much open mind on this. I've been wrong too many times in my life to be willing to shout "Hoax!" without the proof in hand.
It isn't just American forests, in fact the rain forests are the ones being destroyed the fastest. Do you think that the disappearance of the benthic and pelagic fisheries is not due to over-fishing by people? Salmon stocks? The Passenger Pigeons? The whales? The Great Auks? Are all of these things just "lint on the blanket"? Or do humans have a profound impact that we are just now beginning to understand?
