From: spike66new (spike66@ATTBI.com)
Date: Sun Mar 24 2002 - 17:19:15 MST
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>spike66new wrote:
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>>The greens will not rest comfortably until humans are all dead.
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>Mike Lorrey wrote:
>Which is why they are more accurately described as Browns: they want 90%
>of the human race dead in the cesspool of history, and the other tenth
>left wallowing in the excretory life of cavemen.
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Is not this a terribly ironic position for the greens? Consider that humans
are the only species on this planet capable of rescuing those elements
which are essential to life but are constantly slipping out of the life
cycle.
In the last issue of the Exponent I argued that by burning oil, gas and
coal,
we are returning to circulation the carbon which had long ago fallen out
of the life cycle, and had become permanently unavailable to carbon-based
lifeforms. Since then I realized the argument was laughably understated,
for carbon is but one element that can fall out of the life cycle. Two
others
that are also essential to life and are subject to falling out of the
cycle would
be calcium and phosphorus.
When sea creatures perish, their carcasses drift to the depths. Their
bones contain calcium. Phosphorus puts the P in ATP, essential to running
every cell in both plants and animals. There are processes which break
down the sea-bottom carcasses of course, but these are evidently
insufficient in themselves, which explains the existence of phosphorus
mines
today. Natural processes cannot fully return all life's elements to the
life cycle.
Had not humanity come along, all Gaia's lifeforms would eventually perish
for want of calcium and phosphorus, long ere lack of carbon would
become a serious issue, long ere fatal global cooling as a result of
atmospheric shortage of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and
methane.
The Greens are ignoring the fact that humanity is saving this planet
and all the life on it. Evidently Gaia in her all-seeing wisdom, evolved
humanity to get all techno and rescue the calcium and phosphorus. spike
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