On the ship the Titanic

We are all on the ship the Titanic.

Do you enjoy the party?

Do you feel bad for the pollution you create? Maybe you shouldn’t feel bad! READ THIS 50-million-cars

Might as well smell the flowers?

Do you try to alert the Captain of the iceberg?

What if the Captain thinks you are crazy?

When I write we are all on the ship Titanic, I mean the human race on the planet earth.

Human population growth graph. Logarithmic growth.

Visual real time counter here

# According to the American Journal of Public Health, the average American woman has intercourse 87 times a year (or 1.7 times a week).
# According to the World Health Organization, more than 114 million acts of sex are performed each day around the world.

Can you enjoy the party with the knowledge of impending doom (overpopulation and global warming)?

Global warming is not that bad to the planet, to humans it is, but not the planet. As George Carlin said the planet is fine.

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It’s been here for some billions of years.

George doesn’t like “saving the planet” concept.
George says (sarcastic, but some laugh) “Maybe Nature likes Plastic!” youtube plastic link

Fish eat the plastic , the birds eat the fish. Click on the pictures to see natures love of plastic.

Facts About the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Dead Zone Stories Written by Lily Whiteman The National Science Foundation

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If you are angry or depressed about mans influence on the planet , remember in the game of life, the house always wins.

I was thinking about this fact the other day, and I wonder if our individual knowledge of our own impending death is a collective source of anger for mankind, anger that motivates a selfishness so strong that we can continue to stay on the train to hell (too much pollution for the planet to take).

The idea of “saving the planet“ can unite humanity in a common cause, maybe stop war.

George forgets about human war and our human Gluttony. No animal on the planet before has had the ability to split the atom, and read the DNA engineering sequences of life. We humans answer to no one, do we?

11 Extinct Animals That Have Been Photographed Alive <click here>

Land area that humans live on will change . We humans will then likely have wars over the new land/old land. Wars are hard on the environment, we kill and use up anything available for our war, if the war is going badly. Otherwise humans being smarter than multiplying bacteria should only use the planets resources that can be expected to grow back from the energy of sunlight.

Sex and eating. Mankind and bacteria.

The initial growth phase is called log growth, since the microbes metabolize at a rate which doubles their number (cell division) and mass over a given time. Log growth rates vary from strain to strain. At some point, the amount of food remaining begins to limit the growth rate. In this declining growth phase there are too many microorganisms and not enough food to sustain them.

Dr. David Suzuki

“Suzuki talked about the earth being our biosphere and the biosphere cannot grow. Giving an example of a biosphere, he talked about a test tube full of food for bacteria. The bacteria can double every minute. One becomes two, two become four, four become eight and so forth. Within 60 minutes the tube is full of bacteria and there is no food left in it. But at minute 59 that tube is only half full of bacteria.
“We’re past the 59th minute,” he said of the world.”

Are humans as mindlessly dumb as bacteria fission growth? So shortsighted? Only if global warming is a problem directly affecting us, will we address it?

Additional: The examples of human causing extinctions prove we can be just as dumb as mindless bacteria.

toastsporkon reddit.com “Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll overfish, cause famine in the next three regions and pollute the environment with fish remains.“

Religion teaches us morals that raise us above mindless bacteria. Without the guidance of a religion, we will over consume the worlds resources in a feat of gluttony. The past evidence of human history teaches it is likely.

It is ironic George Carlin hated religion, yet religion is the only thing that might save the human race from its gluttony. Carlin was rooting for the asteroid out there to hit the earth and end the human race.

We behave like mindless bacteria with our addiction and consumption of oil-gasoline.

Our problem is the same as a bacterium . Over consumption, over population, overheating /global warming (too much carbon dioxide).

“Don’t poop where you eat”, is a saying, and our collective poop of billions is going to mess up where we live, and maybe our food source (farms) if the weather is too bad (or too extreme) to grow crops.

What other organized beings are on the planet? Bee’s and ants. They (different colonies) can live next to (bee’s to bee’s, ants to ants) each other with food resources of what nature (sunlight) provides. How common is war amongst the bees and ants?

Some people can’t conceive of the power humans have to kill and destroy as greater than their God. Humans are the best animal at killing due to our intelligence and tool making. Combined with organizations/colonies like bee’s and ants we become even more powerful. Pollution does not exist in nature as every animals/insects waste-pollution is used by another life form. Human waste-pollution does not go back into the food cycle . Pollution like radiation from nuclear fission and global atmospheric changes from pollution dumped into the FREE air.

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Human excrement-garbage-pollution does not easily get back into natures cycle of life.

Mindless Pollution

click for larger:A humans livingroom as a dump for bears.

I wrote another post asking about “God’s Mona Lisa” <click here>

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Additional

Mankind has conquered the macro world, the large world , with the invention of the nuclear bomb and going to the moon. Mankind will soon conquer the micro world with designer bacteria and viruses.

After both worlds are conquered man must then face himself and his/her position on the planet earth.

Position as in are we a virus in the blood of the earth,

Agent Smith says virus

” There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.”

, or like a white blood cell keeping the earth healthy? Humans working together for the common good of every ones health.

Like a white blood cell, Willie Smits

Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo

Another example

of good is Indian civil servant, SM Raju organised 300,000 villagers from over 7,500 villages in northern Bihar to engage in a mass tree planting ceremony. BBC news story link.

Another example Erin Brockovich

From http://www.sacbee.com/1190/story/2281048.html

My View: Chromium 6 still threatens California’s drinking water
By Erin Brockovich
Published: Monday, Oct. 26, 2009
“Polluters who contaminate drinking water and make people sick shouldn’t get off easy. That has been the focus of my work for two decades, and I’m not planning to stop now. “

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“I was saddened by the descriptions of liver and kidney degeneration, blood abnormalities including anemia, testicular damage, infertility, miscarriage, fetal toxicity, chromosomal abnormalities and a litany of cancers. The clinical descriptions in the Cal-EPA document weren’t abstract to me – they brought back the names and faces of people who I know who have lived and died with these illnesses.

Roberta Walker, the original client in the movie, was poisoned by Chromium 6. PG&E recently tested her new well at her new home and found levels of hexavalent chromium at 1.26 parts per billion, well over the proposed level of 0.06 ppb.

I congratulate the hard work of attorneys who fought on behalf of those poisoned and I applaud agencies and scientists for overseeing, setting and hopefully enforcing stricter standards. My fight for the people of Hinkley isn’t over. To bring this dark chapter of history to a close, California must adopt a legally enforceable and truly health-protective standard for hex chrome in drinking water.

I cannot protect every contaminated community, but if we have a uniform standard, I will rest easier knowing that people won’t be unknowingly drinking this dangerous substance. This chemical is a serious problem and I am glad it is being addressed. California has always led the way in setting standards that other states follow. We need to make prevention the goal of the future.” Erin Brockovich.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

A hero, Hillary Clinton opens a dialogue with Pakistan, giving peace a chance at the risk of her own life. Taliban recently detonated bombs in Pakistan not too far from where she was visiting.

Hillary was complaining “it was “hard to believe” that no one in Pakistan’s government knew where al Qaeda leaders were hiding.”

Pakistan is countering with “Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was confronted repeatedly by Pakistanis yesterday as she ended a tense three-day tour, chastised by one woman who said U.S. aerial drones targeting terrorists in the lawless tribal region amount to “executions without trial.”

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update: remembered a Star Trek reference with endless war. I believe this was referring to the war in Vietnam at the time, but is a timeless message that “hate” as a reason for war has to stop.

“Good old game of war, Pawn against pawn, stopping the “bad guys” , while somewhere some thing sits back and laughs, and starts it all over again” says Kirk

“Day of the dove”

An alien force drives the crew of the Enterprise into brutal conflict with the Klingons.

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Update 2

You may want to read my other page World Needs.<click here>

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Update 3

Cleaning the environment.

“cleaning wastewater, boththe domestic and the industrial kinds. What he did was create a shallow rectangular pond, fill it with a very selective soil mixture, and then plant common reed plants.”