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If someone empties their used engine oil into their local pond, it has an effect on every part of the system in some small way. If a giant petrochemical company empties thousands of gallons of used oil into some other body of water (or on land, even), it has a greater impact, true, but the smaller abuses also contribute.
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Again agreed, but what are we to do with human farts? After all they contain methane which is in fact a "smaller abuse" of the environment as methane is commonly regarded as a contributor to global warming. Do you think it would be prudent to ban farts? Offer substitutes? Burping perhaps? I, for one, would fight for my right to fart. Especially now that I am in my 40's I think a fart a day keeps a doctor away - global warming or not.
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Global temperatures are directly tied into that system, and are directly related to those sorts of effects. We can't simply accept the idea that when the planet's water supply (or other attribute) becomes contaminated that it has no impact on the ecosystem overall. There is only so much a planet can take.
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Based on what I understand about these things some types water contamination might actually inhibit global warming. Let's say there is a huge oil spill. Oil floats on the water's surface and thus diminishes the area of water which would otherwise evaporate, or evaporate quicker. Less clouds (which are a global warming contributor too) would be created.
Just please, don't tell me I'm for polluted waters.
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Therefore, we MUST acknowledge that some of that impact is likely to be negative, ergo sum, the longer we continue to make even a small negative impact [...]
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Basic premise of the statement is OK. Just made me chuckle here how you showed your Latin sucks
(you wrote "therefore I am" instead of "therefore")
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I, for one, don't want to wait until our scientists tell us, "Well, folks, that's it. Turns out that humankind IS responsible for messing up the ecosystem, like Al Gore warned us about 3 years ago.
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Al Gore told warned us that we are messing up the ecosystem? They taught me about that 35++ years ago in primary school. Not sure how old you are but for some reason I have a feeling they already completed the cleaning of the River Thames before you were born, and that was also long before Al Gore was even politically active.
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Just checked in Wikipedia; the organization most kids in my home country had to participate in was called Nature's Preservation League. It was established in 1928.
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Did you watch the flick JS posted?