Polar ice caps are melting, Yay!, We're all going to drown Options

[Pisces]

In a series of events this week in New Zealand, there is now boat tours to go see (3) giant melting ice bergs of the coast of NZ. It started ages ago with 100 being spotted far South of NZ, a bit unusual but Antartica is South of NZ so ice isn't anything to get excited about, then early this week 2 had moved West of NZ and had scared fishing boats out there, plane trips had started to see them because they were quite close, then they moved within easy helicopter distance so even more trips came, then they moved within visible distance so bored West coast marijauna growers flocked to the beachs, now they are within a casual boat trip up close, with the larger one breaking into 2. This all leading to some cool video on the news here over the last few days, here is todays story, its an internet link so its horrible quality and half of it is talking to bored marijauna growers.

I'm tempted to drive down and watch global warming for the hell of it but I'm lazy and its just ice. It would be cool if they hit land, it should be impossible for the iceberg not to melt when approaching the coast but it wasn't supposed to go this far up and this close either.

[canis216]

That which is natural is not necessarily desirable. Malaria, for instance, is totally natural...

But debating about whether humans are natural or not is maddening and rather unproductive. Natural or not, the fact is that we're causing the world's climate to warm. That warming is by general consensus considered undesirable. Considering that we caused it, I think that we ought to act to prevent this undesirable warming. An ethicist would, I think, say that the situation implies a moral obligation on our part to do so. If it were happening just because of changes in Earth's orbit relative the sun the whole deal would be out of our control, but that isn't the case.

[Channler]

That which is natural is not necessarily desirable. Malaria, for instance, is totally natural...

But debating about whether humans are natural or not is maddening and rather unproductive. Natural or not, the fact is that we're causing the world's climate to warm. That warming is by general consensus considered undesirable. Considering that we caused it, I think that we ought to act to prevent this undesirable warming. An ethicist would, I think, say that the situation implies a moral obligation on our part to do so. If it were happening just because of changes in Earth's orbit relative the sun the whole deal would be out of our control, but that isn't the case.

Meh, I suppose.. But I do have a question then..

Do you support saving africa? I mean places like Darfur and those that don't produce enough food or infrastructure? If so you obviously support global warming cause the more we help (or the more the Africans help) industrialize the worse emissions and waste becomes...

The starving people in Africa? or the warmth of the world?