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Dominos in a Row (Energy Essay #8)
Feb. 21st, 2006 06:36 pmDominos in a Row – Energy, Population and the Environment
The climate change that is currently occurring is seen as beneficial by some, but the changes have far reaching implications. On the surface, people may think that a little warming is a pretty good deal. Less snow and ice to mess up the roads in winter, a few more weeks in which it is warm enough to be at the beach in summer. This sort of thinking is short sighted. We must realize that everything is interconnected, and changing one part of the equation affects all of the other parts. Once you accept the truth of this statement, that earth functions as one giant organism, and start looking into how the warming causes a domino effect through out all of the parts of the system, you begin to see just what sort of a hand basket we are in.
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The climate change that is currently occurring is seen as beneficial by some, but the changes have far reaching implications. On the surface, people may think that a little warming is a pretty good deal. Less snow and ice to mess up the roads in winter, a few more weeks in which it is warm enough to be at the beach in summer. This sort of thinking is short sighted. We must realize that everything is interconnected, and changing one part of the equation affects all of the other parts. Once you accept the truth of this statement, that earth functions as one giant organism, and start looking into how the warming causes a domino effect through out all of the parts of the system, you begin to see just what sort of a hand basket we are in.
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