Peeing in the pool

[safeinOhio]

I will no longer argue against global warming. The other side has too much money. I am moving toward the "peeing in the pool" line.
Every thing that causes global warming that humans do is pollution. Burning carbon does just that. Cars give off all kinds of poisons. Just lock yourself in a closed garage and run your tank dry. If you don't die, you'll end up sick. Burning coal has put mercury in every lake and fish, not to mention sulfur in the air.
If one or two kids pee in the pool every day, the chlorine in the pool helps keep us safe from hepatitis and other illnesses and the stink. If hundreds of kids pee everyday in the pool, not so much. Chlorine, itself, is a poison and more and more to cover up the waste will also make you sick.
Now, how are the business interest that fight global warming going to argue against pollution?

[pipi_k]

1. Speaking of peeing in the pool...

I read someplace that if you can smell a VERY strong odor of chlorine in a public swimming pool, that means lots of people have peed in it.

Which is different from suspecting that people have peed in it...which we all have done, but didn't think about, hoping that people don't really do that sort of thing...

Anyway, I don't know how true that is, but it's enough to keep me away from public pools, and regret ever having been in one in the past.

blech


carry on
:7

[BeFree]

2. heh

Think of the atmosphere as a pool. We be swimming in pee.

[pipi_k]

4. Well, aside from the obvious pollutants in the air...

the other one that sort of freaks me out is knowing I'm breathing in other people's cast off (dead) skin cells.

Oh, and those little mites and their feces

We can run, but we can't hide...

[FedUpWithIt All]

3. That is what stuns me about the human-not human induced arguments.

The things we are doing, which may or may not be (although i think they are)causing climate changes, are killing animals, poisoning our water, contaminating our soils...

I posted the following in the environmental forum a bit ago. Seems relevant here.

To myself personally, it matters not a whit which it is. I KNOW my behavior has been irresponsible

I know my behavior causes too much waste.

I know my behavior causes dead zones and garbage dumps in the ocean.

I know animals die from the production and disposal wrought from my lifestyle.

I know that mountains are raped in an effort to feed my unnecessary energy hunger.

I know that those in extreme poverty are suffering and dying from lack of clean drinking water while i consume water from bottles taken from their clean water sources while i live right next door to one of the largest fresh water sources in the world.

I know that the chemicals released from the production of...take your pick, TV, tennis shoes, computer, iPod, Wii...is releasing toxic chemicals into the water, air and soil which ALL LIFE depends on.

I know that my van is not more necessary in getting me from point a to point b than a smaller vehicle which would add less pollution to the air my family needs to breathe.

I know that easy food from long distances has desensitized me to natures seasonal hunger. I want, not need, strawberries and bananas in winter. This has caused a greater global production strain on small regional areas.

I know that nearly every single resource in the world is suffering, dying or being depleted by our extreme gluttony, greed, vanity, arrogance...

Truth be told, i don't understand what difference it really makes whether or not one believes that the weather changes are human induced or not. We KNOW our behavior is certainly not helping. We know that we are killing the planet, if not through weather changes, than certainly through other destructive means. The list above could go on.

Here is bigger picture for you...Coming together to change the things we KNOW we are doing that harm the planet and life on it, and the weather debate would be fairly mute. We have so much to account for that it melts my brain to see that mankind would rather debate this issue than do what we can to change what we can while we can. Meanwhile everything suffocates, starves, drowns and dies in our sickening amount of waste.


The consequences of doing nothing are too great.

[pipi_k]

5. Sickening amount of waste is right...

In fact, I was ranting to Mr Pip yesterday about how unbelievable it is to me how just TWO people can create so much trash as we do.

Honestly, it's embarrassing!!!!


Luckily, our town dump is also a recycling center, so much of what we discard goes back into the production system to be reincarnated someplace else.

So I feel better about that, but for sheer volume...yeah...it sometimes makes me ill to see it.

[tinrobot]

6. How do they fight against it?

They'll tell you carbon dioxide is good for you because it's "natural" and trees like it.