Post by Bubba's Dad on Aug 14, 2008 23:17:10 GMT -5
Back in the day when mammoths wandered the earth humans were not big producers of carbon emissions and the world was not threatened with the evils of man made global warming. These hunter gatherers would work for hours making their spear points of stone and fire hardening wooden shafts, releasing very little carbon into the air. Life was good. Everyone had equal shares of labor, food, and responsibilities. The perfect utopia, albeit, a half frozen loincloth wearing world.
Then came the technical advances that would change everything. Hunting began to give way as the only way of subsistence, and people began to farm. This farming of first barley, and later grain, was necessary for bread and beer. It required the selfish use of land, and the beer and grain consumed made the human body produce an unnatural amount of personal methane gas. The large herds of animals being domesticated could be fed grain during the winter, enabling large numbers of people to live in a unnatural permanent setting. Not all areas would be suitable for farming, so land became important. The sticks and stones used for personal defense and hunting no longer would do.
This is were Big Bronze stepped in. With the need for organized defense of newly formed nation states, weapons makers found a ready market for bronze weapons. The manufacture of these items produce carbon from the coal and wood fires used to smelt the copper, zinc and other metals used in them, and released untold amounts of pollutants into the air, including cyanide. The earth began to warm.
Then came Big Iron, and with it gunpowder weapons that would burn charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur in an explosively polluting way. Also, with the human population relying on grain and cattle for food (and beer), the carbon foot print of these nation states began to grow. With the new weapons, battles would kill thousands, leaving their decomposing bodies to discharge massive amounts of methane gasses. So much gas and carbon was released that during the later renaissance period, the suns rays were diminished by the gas and carbon and a mini ice age set in, requiring more coal and firewood to be burned, releasing even more carbon, warming the earth again.
Today, to kill one terrorist, we require fuel for the UAV, fuel for the ship it was launched from, and carbon emissions from both the exploding war head attached to the fuel driven missile launched from the UAV, as well as the methane gas expelled from the exploding terrorists. Factor in the fuel needed to supply the ship with food for the sailors on that ship, the carbon produced when sending up the GPS satellite that the UAV relies on, and the personal methane produced by all the beer drunk by all of the people involved when celebrating the terrorists demise, and it takes millions of tons of carbon pollution to kill one terrorist.
Rather than risking global worming by getting one bad guy at a time, the US could simply nuke the rest of the world. It would be the humane thing to do. As past blast sites have shown, the nuclear aftermath would not be as bad as once thought. The nuclear winter would bring the earths temperature back down to Ice Age levels. Also, most of the earths population would be incinerated with fire so hot that little carbon and no methane gas would be left. With the population so low, and no need for nation states to exist for the protection of land ownership, the surviving people could return to an enviro-friendly existence with nature, loincloth and all. The Environmentalists and Democrats would be so proud.
Then came the technical advances that would change everything. Hunting began to give way as the only way of subsistence, and people began to farm. This farming of first barley, and later grain, was necessary for bread and beer. It required the selfish use of land, and the beer and grain consumed made the human body produce an unnatural amount of personal methane gas. The large herds of animals being domesticated could be fed grain during the winter, enabling large numbers of people to live in a unnatural permanent setting. Not all areas would be suitable for farming, so land became important. The sticks and stones used for personal defense and hunting no longer would do.
This is were Big Bronze stepped in. With the need for organized defense of newly formed nation states, weapons makers found a ready market for bronze weapons. The manufacture of these items produce carbon from the coal and wood fires used to smelt the copper, zinc and other metals used in them, and released untold amounts of pollutants into the air, including cyanide. The earth began to warm.
Then came Big Iron, and with it gunpowder weapons that would burn charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur in an explosively polluting way. Also, with the human population relying on grain and cattle for food (and beer), the carbon foot print of these nation states began to grow. With the new weapons, battles would kill thousands, leaving their decomposing bodies to discharge massive amounts of methane gasses. So much gas and carbon was released that during the later renaissance period, the suns rays were diminished by the gas and carbon and a mini ice age set in, requiring more coal and firewood to be burned, releasing even more carbon, warming the earth again.
Today, to kill one terrorist, we require fuel for the UAV, fuel for the ship it was launched from, and carbon emissions from both the exploding war head attached to the fuel driven missile launched from the UAV, as well as the methane gas expelled from the exploding terrorists. Factor in the fuel needed to supply the ship with food for the sailors on that ship, the carbon produced when sending up the GPS satellite that the UAV relies on, and the personal methane produced by all the beer drunk by all of the people involved when celebrating the terrorists demise, and it takes millions of tons of carbon pollution to kill one terrorist.
Rather than risking global worming by getting one bad guy at a time, the US could simply nuke the rest of the world. It would be the humane thing to do. As past blast sites have shown, the nuclear aftermath would not be as bad as once thought. The nuclear winter would bring the earths temperature back down to Ice Age levels. Also, most of the earths population would be incinerated with fire so hot that little carbon and no methane gas would be left. With the population so low, and no need for nation states to exist for the protection of land ownership, the surviving people could return to an enviro-friendly existence with nature, loincloth and all. The Environmentalists and Democrats would be so proud.
