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If ever there was an issue that could be resolved by some bipartisanship and common sense, it’s the global warming issue.
Both sides are really dug in and all but refuse to listen to any possible credible opinion from the other side.
This is somewhat of an exaggeration, but not much. The anti-global warming side says the planet is going through a cyclical stage and there is nothing that can be done to change it.
Despite hard scientific evidence to the contrary, anti-warmers say the Earth is not warming at an alarming pace. They see changes in the glaciers and snow packs as small and uneventful.
Again, this is an exaggeration, but the pro-warmers exclaim that man is the sole cause of catastrophic climate change.
Of course, there are those on both sides who can agree at least a little with their opponents. However, their voices are drowned out by the radicals (as is the case in most issues) on both sides.
To quote Rodney King: “Can’t we all just get along?” I happen to believe that both sides are right. I think that the Earth goes through cycles of change, of which humans have little control. I also believe that such change moves in geologic time. Sudden in geology is at least 100,000 years, if not more.
Are humans contributing to the problem? You bet. And it’s going to get worse. The world’s population is exploding. Cars in China, once a luxury, are becoming more common. Same with India, which soon will pass China in population.
That is more cars, more refineries, more food to be transported and on and on.
Why can’t the two sides of this issue in the United States put down their hyperbole and rhetoric for a while and agree that both sides have good points.
Maybe if these two polar opposites (pun intended) can sit down and start working on a solution, maybe it could spread.
The Earth is changing. Humans have something to do with it. Anything we can do to slow it up for our kids, grandkids and great-grandkids we should do.
We’re smart enough to figure out how to take things from the Earth, we should be smart enough to figure out how to give something back.
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