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No, I dont either. But in the not too distant future - within the next 4 or 5 generations I would suggest - I can imagine a huge natural calamity that will reduce the poulation to a tolerable level....maybe a huge global epidemic, some catastrophic natural disaster, whatever.

Nature will sort things out. She always does. Mankind may not like it very much, though!

I have a serious question

*puts clever head on*

You know scientists say dinosaurs were around so many years ago and man came along however many years later?

*not being too technical am I?*lol

Well how do they know how many years ago it was?

I dont care what happens in a million years...I dont care what happens when I die...

no doubt the human (infestation) race would have conquered space travel by then and colonised other worlds ready to destroy them to

hope the aliens put up a good fight

I think animals will get along quite nicely once we have managed to wipe ourselves out.

Nature has her own way of sorting things out. Where will this planet be in a million years time? A million years is only a blip on the scale of things....there will, however, come a time when Earth ceases to exist at all....

Absolutely....... but we would take along lots of other creatures with us, and they don't deserve to be wiped out, do they?

Love

Daff, xx

*pops back in to ~~~~~~ wave to BC !!

And to say.... what about harnessing the waves..... and the thingies that go around..... windmill things?

I know people say they are dreadful.... bet they did when they built the first millhouses and had to divert the little local streams for the power to turn the wotsits.... and now we think it is all picturesque!

And we don't even notice pylons much now... and I have one in full view out my back garden.....

We'd get used to it!... I do wish they'd leave the oil and coal alone for a while.... and find a way to make it more acceptable to use other fuels.... they have been around for a while, haven't they?

Love

Daff xxxx

Yep - the planet has been here for ..what...4 billion years..?

Man has been active in an industrial manner for a few hundred...?

And we are arrogant enough to think that we can achieve what volcanoes, meteor impacts, plate techtonics, earthquakes, you name it - have failed to achieve...?

I think not. What the scare brigade mean is not that the planet is in any danger - it isn't. It is humans that are in danger. The planet will heal itself quite nicely, thank you very much.

Those funny biped carbon based life forms are the things in danger!

I can't find any evidence of trees growing downwards..........and i don't think windy cows are going to kill us.

But...............I do think we should try our best to protect our oceans and rain forests.

No, I don't , not in so far as it exploding or killing itself off.... but I think there are less environmentally unfriendly ways, using replenishable sources, of doing most things!!

I'd bet that tthere was a way of harnessing those cow f.... err I mean emissions and turning it into fuel... I lknow all the gumf about methane being unstable and all that, but I am sure there is a way of doing it without annihilating the planet in a massive explosion.... and I know it would be expensive to start off with, but it would be cost effective in the long term.

Just don't know how to do it!!

Don't ask me why.... cos all I'll tell you is that it is because of the rings around Saturn that I think like this!

illogically logical, !!

Love

Daff xxx

Thank you Sharron:)

Eldrick..................I have no idea, but I think we will wear ourselves out with worry long before the earth implodes or whatever the scientists come up with next.

Does anyone think the planet is in danger, then - as in Save the Earth sort of thing...?

Daffy, if the cows stopped emitting noxious fumes, you would not have to worry about your car:-) lol BC XX

I might not know the science but I can tell you the man to read for information about the historical effects of the little ice-age and earlier global warming is Brian Fagan.

sorry Kitty.... it's not precipitation, it's something like perspiration only not spelt with a p..........

*sulks* Last year it was allllll about Global Warming... now it's Global cooling and a new ice age dawneth... and a few years ago we were gonna be encased in ice before the 21st century... Blimey.. it didn't happen!!

And then there is Nostre Damus (sp)

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(ps, Thank you Kitty xxxx :¬)))

Oops!Do you know Kitty.I have just shot my mouth off and I don't actually know the details,I just have been told they do,in a Geography class at school probably.I expect I was just stopping to put my mascara away or something when she said it.
I'm sure you would do better to look on Wikipedia than have me do the same and then give you my mangled version of what they said.
Sorry about my hasty gob,I must learn to control it.

I did read someehre that we are still as a planet
emerging from the last iceage

of corse its gong to get warmer

Thanks Daff.....................it's cooling by the way sweetie:))

*googles precipitation*

Nods wisely at Kitty while handing over rope ladder.... it is called precipitation...... I think :¬s

Love

Daff xx

More seriously.... what really puzzles me, is how can people say that we are going through Global warming... and all this stuff about the thinning ozone layer? How was this measured say... 150 years ago? 2000 years ago?

There were no tools to measure it then.

What IS out there however, is evidence via literature, soil analysis etc.that the Globe has gone through many periods of weather changes... both warming and colding (I know, but I have brain cells on strike today) and that mankind has managed to survive!!

Cos the pendulum just swings back again!

What does concern me is the increased use of unrenewable fuel sources.... I feel that a lot of research in this area might have been shelved!

Love

Daff the paranoid!!

And no, I am not gonna give up my car yet, lol

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