how to protect our planet

[Jean]

To protect our planet, the first thing to do is to forbide useless
pollutions, like motor racings. We must use their circuits for bicycle
competitions only.

[VFW]

In article
<6d89c2e5-087f-413f...@b32g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
Jean <Polari...@orange.fr> wrote:

well, you know that after the humans are extinct. and it does happen to
like 99% of all the species that ever existed are gone.
the earth will be fine , it can heal and go on.
Is it Karma?
--
money; what a concept!

[strik...@mail.com]

I suggest a nuke strike by the combined forces of USA, China, and
Russia on all third-world population centers. Rio, Bombay, Mexico
City, Detroit, etc.,etc. The planet cannot be protected if population
keeps growing. Also, the neutering of most Africans on that continent,
a cash bonus as an inducement.

striker

[VFW]

In article <e5kaj5p95jrpc5e5i...@4ax.com>,
strik...@mail.com wrote:

> striker

and food for thought;

yes, folks, it's happened to just about every species throughout history.
and the humans certainly have altered the environment to where there are
doubts about the "house of cards" coming down.
I call it Karma.
Hey, what critters ride around in metal boxes spewing gases that turn
the seas acidic?
you do the math. but don't worry about the Earth, it will spin on and
even heal most of the damages. Eventually.
Hint/ don't have children.
--
Hint; Enjoy the moment !

[VFW]

In article <georgeswk-C1269...@news.toast.net>,
VFW <geor...@toast.net> wrote:

and;

In article <uh3dj5hmjp3vjre3h...@4ax.com>,
Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Heal-The-Wo
> rld-Its-All-We-Have-/articleshow/5380592.cms
>
> 26 December 2009
>
> By Subodh Varma
>
> ..............................................................................
> ...........................................
>
> The past decade saw the most clinching evidence ever - provided by the
> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - that human activity
> had pushed greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere to almost
> the tipping point.
>
> Another few decades of business as usual, and our planet will hit an
> irreversible slide into catastrophic climate changes, destroying
> civilisation as we know it today.
>
> The decade is ending with a failure to agree on an acceptable way out,
> but Copenhagen also marks the first glimmer of an awareness that time
> is running out for humanity.
>
> The coming decade will thus be dominated by global efforts to cut
> emissions and change over to a life less rooted in the carbon economy.
> If an agreement is not reached in the next two to three years, and
> carbon emissions are not reduced from 2015 onwards , the target of
> limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius by 2050 will not be
> achieved.
>
> Indeed, a confidential UN document that was leaked at Copenhagen shows
> that the world is headed towards a three degrees Celsius rise by 2050
> unless the developed world takes much larger emission cuts than they
> have been promising so far.
>
> Scientists are agreed that at the present level of warming, extreme
> weather events, rising sea levels and shrinking glaciers will
> increasingly become evident in the coming decade, with severe
> consequences for agriculture, health and the global economy.
>
> The big hope lies in increasing use of emission-reducing technology.
>
> Reaching the 2°C target will require a broad portfolio of possible
> technological pathways , says Brigitte Knopf of the Potsdam Institute
> of Climate Impact Research, who is associated with the IPCC.
>
> "There is no silver bullet of one technology that does the job.
> However, for ambitious mitigation targets, some technologies become
> very important: bio-energy use, carbon capture and sequestration
> (CCS), and renewable energy," she told TOI-Crest .
>
> The bill for these efforts will come to a few percentage points of
> global GDP.
>
> If technologies do not become available, either costs or temperature
> will go up, says Knopf.
>
> Several breakthroughs have been made in green technologies for
> automobiles, and these will get commercialised soon.
>
> A big push towards use of solar, wind and geothermal energies can also
> be expected.
>
> Happily, progress has been made in containing or reversing some
> aspects of environmental damage in the past decade.
>
> Deforestation, which was as high as 8.9 million hectares per year in
> 1990-2000 , dropped to about 7.3 million hectares per year in the past
> decade.
>
> This has happened because of serious forestry initiatives by several
> countries including China, India, US and several South American
> countries.
>
> However, in some of the top deforestation regions like Indonesia and
> Brazil, the rate is still high.
>
> Deforestation contributes about a quarter of annual carbon emissions ,
> so efforts to check it are being accorded top priority.
>
> But there's bad news when it comes to endangered species.
>
> Advancing urbanisation, deforestation and poaching are destroying
> other forms of life at an alarming rate.
>
> In 2000, the Red List prepared by the International Union for
> Conservation of Nature (IUCN) had 10,533 species listed as threatened.
> In 2009, this number had risen to 17,291.
>
> ___________________________________________________
>
> Harry

are humans threatened? and would a lot of these problems be cured by
human extinction?

yes, folks, it's happened to just about every species throughout history.
and the humans certainly have altered the environment to where there are
doubts about the "house of cards" coming down.
I call it Karma.
Hey, what critters ride around in metal boxes spewing gases that turn
the seas acidic?
you do the math. but don't worry about the Earth, it will spin on and
even heal most of the damages. Eventually.

Hint/ don't have children.yes, folks, it's happened to just about every