Wanna go see The Barrier Reef or the Alps before they are totally gone due to global warming?

Check this site out...
It's so disgusting it just might keep you up at night.

Click Here

I hope to be at the barrier reef in the next few weeks if all goes well Daniella - I'll tell them to look after it till you get there!!

Ben

Enjoy it while it lasts Mister Bernard...
Seriously.
Take lots and lots of photos on your honeymoon.

For who knows how much longer it will remain.

[QUOTE=DaniellaMontoya;265513]Wanna go see The Barrier Reef or the Alps before they are totally gone due to global warming?

Check this site out...
It's so disgusting it just might keep you up at night.

Indeed, Dani. Very troubling.

I wish there was something we could do, to really make a difference, you know.

I think is getting late do to global warming:(

The barrier reef is one of the most beutiful and, inspiring places one earth.

Sadly, It may take the loss of it for the world to fully realise we need to stop it.

Daniella,

I do find it saddening...I went to Mount Everest a number of years ago....and found out from the locals there is less snow every year

The world will adapt, and new wilderness will form where it was impossible earlier. There's nothing to worry about except how WE can adapt to the changing environment. The world has lasted 4.6 billion years. It's going to outlast us like we outlast a mosquito bite.

But sure, it would be a shame if we can't be in the Barrier Reef and see perdy fishies anymore.

Um Dros...?
You think this is about perdy fishes we can't go stare at?

Really?

Hundreds of dophins are washing dead upon shores with tumors on their heads -the size of grapefruit.

I guess that's just them adapting...

All the animal's and mother nature need's to survive is for human's to become extinct because while were here nothing will change

No, not really. I was being cold and cynical. Like one can be when speaking of mass extinctions and global effects. I'm not saying I run over bunnies on purpose or anything, but I can't get too emotional about this issue in particular.


Nature kills off almost every species that evolves. We don't give a monkey's. But when we harm animals that star in movies or for other reasons are appealing to us, we shed tears. I get the viewpoint that we should mess with nature as little as possible. But in the end, our motives are to save the planet so it looks pretty for our kids to see. I don't blame that at all. I want a blue planet to live on as well. But the thread seemed like it was an expression of alarm for the well-being of this planet's wildlife. And that's something we don't have to worry about, because the world will heal and replenish its losses, or let other species retake it. It's after all thanks to mass extinctions that you and I could arise.

The link I gave...
Yeah.

I guess I should have pointed out that it isn't about.."Oh, go see the pretty things." I can see how you came in from that angle.

I didn't mean to come across -that I thought you were being heartless.
I apologize.

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If a species can die off...
So can we.

It isn't Our Planet, Our oceans, Our animals.
We've removed ourselves from the very laws of nature.

We think we should live better than necessary -at the expense of another species life. And it's starting to show its course.

If it's killing mammals from the sea...
It won't be too long where it will have serious consequences…
A major impact that will start with abolishing the 3,000 mile salad bar.

No worries, Daniella
I could have worded myself differently too.


Ah, but you see there are no laws of nature that relate to mercy or considering others. Symbiosis can be confused with nature in harmony, and some sort of law. Nature is a full scale war faught constantly between the lifeforms that inhabit it. It's a balance of power, more than a harmonic existance.

We, as social animals, have an inherent motive to behave well with one another. If we don't cooperate, we die. Or at least we would have in the earlier stages of our evolution. As a lucky consequence of being social and clever, we can put ourselves in others' place. Considering other rivaling lifeforms without wiping them out is something unknown to nature unless there are benefits thereof. The same applies for us, only some think that there are truly selfless acts. There aren't. We operate on a psychological level as well as immediate pay-off. We have a conscience, and we would like to be able to look at ourselves and go "I'm an alright person".
If we feel better, we live better. So all acts of "saving the environment" are selfish on some level, and have little or nothing to do with the greater good for all life. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it, of course. I'm simply saying that we're not that bad really. We're just acting out on our survival instinct. I'll explain why we seem to be ruining things shortly.


Yes, we are sort of pissing in the pool, aren't we. It's because our natural instincts haven't had a chance to catch up with our incredible progress technologically. It's not because we're evil that we're cutting down forests, killing sharks etc. It's our natural greed and agression to protect our way of life that has yet to evolve to suit our newly found power to change the local environment. (I'm not defending greedy, rich bastards who own illegal logging companies btw. )
We're immature. We're like a child who's just stumbled over a gun. But as we evolve our understanding of our self enduced (and now increasing) responcibility for the natural world as we know it and would like to keep it.... we're improving our ways slowly but steadily. How many dolphins have yet to die? Hard to say. The planet isn't threatened by us, but our fellow inhabitants of the planet are. How much that matters is a question of what you believe in. For me it doesn't matter at all for anything else but ourselves. It matters for us that rhinos are almost gone. But wilderness itself will surely outlast (almost) any disaster.