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Originally Posted by SteamWake
Call it personal observation. I am in no way an 'expert'. But to me mankind thinking they can influence the enviroment on a grand scale is just a little bit arrogant.
But lets make an example. A deadly typhoon is bearing down on Venezuala, what can mankind do to stop it?
A blizzard paralyzes the north east of the united stats, what can mankind do to stop it?
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And yet we have managed to over-fish most of the oceans, extincted countless species, and are stripping most of the worlds forests for fuel.
There are almost 7 billion people on this planet, each one wanting food, fuel and a place to live. We are cutting down the co2 absorbers in massive numbers and dumping tremendous amounts of carbon into the environment (by burning fuel such as wood, coal, oil, etc). Frankly I think its equally arrogant to claim we are not having an effect.
Also just cause we can't control the weather, doesn't mean we don't effect it.
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A volcano in the tropics erupts and spews billions of metric tons of ash and steam into the atmosphere. In fact it spews forth more pollutants in one day than the entire industrialized globe has done in its entire lifetime.
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In 2007 the estimated amount of carbon released into the atmosphere by humans was around 10 billion tons globally. So unless you are talking a super eruption, like if Yellowstone park errupted, we are out producing your average volcano. Especially when you consider that most of the stuff spewed out by a volcano comes back to the earth pretty rapidly, where as carbon does not (it has to be absorbed by plants mostly)