are… you… kidding me?!
today is march 25th. as i came home from work for the day i opened up the web browser on my fiance’s computer. her homepage is set to CNN and the headline says “Massive Ice Shelf on Verge of Breakup” (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/03/25/antarctic.ice/index.html)
in the first paragraph of the article it mentions the breakup due to global warming.
“Some 220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about the size of Connecticut is “hanging by a thread,” the British Antarctic Survey said Tuesday, blaming global warming.”
global warming would cause this. hum, well, i suppose that could be true… if global warming was actually real.
so i dug around some more on CNN’s website and find another site they have called “Planet in Peril“. when i went to the site the first thing that i saw said by 2050 the world population would reach 9 billion people which would threaten survival and lack of fresh clean water.
what disturbs the most is the poll at the bottom of the site which asks what do you think is the greatest threat to the planet. global warming had 27% of the votes but overpopulation got 62% of the vote (based on 9783 votes). you mean to tell me that the fact that i’m alive is a threat to the environment?
when did we all start caring more about the environment more than we care about ourselves?
it shows me that overpopulation won’t be a problem if this is the case because the stupid won’t survive.