He's an ass that will say anything for funding related to space. Before this he was saying aliens would certainly come to rape and pillage.
Honestly I just think he's shallow.
- If humanity doesn't survive, there will be no one left to care.
- I wonder how many humans Hawking would plan to send to another system....
- If we can't keep this planet habitable, why would we be able to do better elsewhere?
This planet does things in cycles and for whatever the reason we refuse to understand that and at some point the earth will cleanse itself regardless of what we do.
The earth does a pretty good job of taking care of itself.
Human existence on this planet is but a brief blip in time.
We as humans may speed up the inevitable by some minute measure of time by our carelessness, but I don't think so.
If environmentalists get their way we will have to go back to living in caves and protecting them with pointed sticks, I don't see that happening anytime soon.
If industrialists have there way it wont be long and the sun wont reach the earths surface.
Hydo produced electricity is amazingly clean way of generating power, but we might kill a fish.
If you take the amount of pollution generated by coal burning power plants and compare it to the amount of pollution created people that would start individual fires to keep their houses warm and provide light, that math does not add up. let alone the deforestation of providing fuel to burn.
Can you imagine 7 Billion people make fires to keep warm, heat water, cook food and provide light.
More important to me is all radioactive crap we are burying under ground that will essentially never go away, that's a real problem.
If we choose to power the planet with solar power and wind mills we will have to cover the entire planet surface with panels and windmills as the efficiency is not there yet.
Fossil fuels and petroleum products are never going to go away until there is no more. Petroleum based products are in every aspect of our lives everyday, everything you do in a days events is petroleum based one way or another. Hell our rigs are mostly petroleum based products. Petroleum products have brought us great advancements in health, comfort and recreation, but with that comes a cost.
We have had rubber tires on our cars since 1847ish, where is all that rubber that has worn off each and every one of those tires since then?
Each and every vehicle on the road has 8 brake pads on them that lose their material over time, where is all the brake dust, let alone the exhaust emissions and waste oils and solvents used to maintain them and we fret over a coal burning power plant.
Shutting down industries and bankrupting towns before there is a solution in place makes no sense. You cant take a coal miner out of the mine and throw him in a laboratory and tell him to come up with a solution, that's not going to work.
Nobody wants to be a farmer anymore and live off the land, we want it all packaged and handed to us. I would almost guarantee you there would me a lot less meat eaten if you had to kill it and gut it in order to have your prime rib dinner. According to some, cow farts are a real problem!
We want light/HVAC/clean running water/sewage treatment/awesome toys and we just cut a check at the end of the month and move on.
For all of the things we take for granted/expect/get pissed when its not there comes with a cost as does everything in life.
What the solution is I do not know, where the solution resides, as in our elections, I do know is in the middle.
There is a solution to most problems if everyone can come to grips that maybe their staunch extreme views are not the ultimate answer and could greatly benefit by listening to other points of view and research.
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