Coral reefs face extinction within 50 years: experts

[plutoniumJoe]

Individual actions will not be enough. Governments and corperations need to make sustainable options the only options available. I applaud stores like Home Depot that now charge for bags.

[AndyL]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

The figures in the article are per capita and we dont have as large of a population as the USA.

Here this one is better:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...xide_emissions
though I'm willing to bet I will be chided for using wikipedia as a reference.
Still 2.3% of the world CO2 emmisions - if you actually assume these are real numbers - I still find these numbers to be amusing especially when compared to total CO2 emmisions & percentage of errors...

Calcium reactor - it doesn't matter whether its within or external to the display - the chemical reaction is all that matters; you'd probably not be happy if you were to lower your display to a 7.? pH - to raise calcium levels... The chemical reaction still will occur no matter where its located.

Albert - Lets talk over the eons not decades... The oceans pH, and atmospheric CO2 levels have changed radically - yet we don't live in a desolate lifeless world. There are numerous species of current corals that can be found back millions of years - if the changes since then haven't killed these species off...

[rstar]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

This is why I'm not having kids. I dont want to bring anyone into this pathetic world we're creating.

I think its thinking like this thats driving the world to where it is going. Our jobs as responsible human beings is to create and raise the next generation to be better and smarter than we are, to make better chioces. If we don't do this then what was it all for? Im sorry to say but as soon as humans gained scentience the path the world is on became the inevitable, the reality is its here. and at the end of it all, even if we end up messing this place up beyond repair i think its better to be able to say we did what we could to help it, than just cross our arms and say im not going to even bother helping the next generation because the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

By the way im not a tree hugger or anything like that, and i really mean no offence to your opinion. i mean really i am here and taking part in a very hippocritical hobby and have no intention on leaving. I just really do believe it is our job to usher in the next generation on people making smarter choices that we did.

[whatcaneyedo]

Sorry but I dont have any faith that people are intelligent enough and will work together to solve this crisis. Its going to take an 'act of god' to fix things. Probably a virus that wipes out the majority of the human race bringing it down to a more manageable level. Thats if we dont all kill each other first in nuclear war.

[Snaz]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

Probably a virus that wipes out the majority of the human race bringing it down to a more manageable level.

Could be closer than you think. The more people who get H1N1 the bigger the chance the virus flips a couple of nucleotides and mutates into our demise.

[BlueAbyss]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

Sorry but I dont have any faith that people are intelligent enough and will work together to solve this crisis. Its going to take an 'act of god' to fix things. Probably a virus that wipes out the majority of the human race bringing it down to a more manageable level. Thats if we dont all kill each other first in nuclear war.

Bingo. And...

Originally Posted by Snaz

Could be closer than you think. The more people who get H1N1 the bigger the chance the virus flips a couple of nucleotides and mutates into our demise.

Yeah tell me about it... the northern communities are having issues with H1N1 right now. I've been exposed (and it may or may not have made me sick... I haven't been sick enough in the past 3 months to warrant being tested) but it's the fact that so many people are getting exposed that worries me. Or rather, doesn't worry me...

[justinl]

anyone here seen the movie "Idiocracy"? funny, but the concept behind the story is... foreboding. that said, the more babies we crank out, the less resources for everyone. As a whole, we are already using far more than the world's resources can provide us.