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Old 02-07-2011, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
Lol!

Eddie, I mean we can't stop. Consider - we did this accidently, as a byproduct of living. The scale is enormous, and we just can't slow down, because if what we're doing now has already started the process we need less than what we're doing now.

Make sense? After rereading that I'm not sure lol.

And we can't even slow down the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, let alone lower it overall! Love it or hate it, Kyoto was a failure.

So there you go We need to get into space if we want to save the planet, only way.

Pete
And do what? Screw up another perfectly good planet?
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