Re: They Paved Paradise
The Earth has a natural cycle in which water evaporates from the oceans into the atmosphere, and falls back down to the surface in the form of rain. Rain helps keep the plants green and plentiful, and the soil moist, and fertile. When the plants are green and plentiful, they produce oxygen, and a renewable source of food. When there's exposed soil, there are more plants and more green, meaning more fresh air, and more food.
...Unless of course said soil is covered over with millions and millions and millions of square miles of asphalt, concrete, and pavement.
What happens then, is that the rain falls onto the pavement, and runs along it, sometimes for miles, collecting all manner of garbage and toxic materials along it's journey, before draining off somewhere; sometimes into a local creek, or a beautiful lake, or perhaps the ocean. More often though, the runoff goes down a manmade drainage hole. Which then gets fed into one of the local creeks, lakes, or ocean. Aside from all the animals it's killing, more importantly, it's contaminating water sources and endangering nearby wilderness areas. Everything's connected; what doesn't seem like much on the surface can have a butterfly/snowball effect that could be unprecendented and destroy the world as we know it.
If it's too early to start debating it, when should we start debating it? When the environmental changes start getting to be too much to handle? When the whole Earth is just a giant mass of concrete? By the time either of those happen, it'll be too late to do anything to stop it. :=L:
Originally posted by Bartmanhomer
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...Unless of course said soil is covered over with millions and millions and millions of square miles of asphalt, concrete, and pavement.
What happens then, is that the rain falls onto the pavement, and runs along it, sometimes for miles, collecting all manner of garbage and toxic materials along it's journey, before draining off somewhere; sometimes into a local creek, or a beautiful lake, or perhaps the ocean. More often though, the runoff goes down a manmade drainage hole. Which then gets fed into one of the local creeks, lakes, or ocean. Aside from all the animals it's killing, more importantly, it's contaminating water sources and endangering nearby wilderness areas. Everything's connected; what doesn't seem like much on the surface can have a butterfly/snowball effect that could be unprecendented and destroy the world as we know it.
If it's too early to start debating it, when should we start debating it? When the environmental changes start getting to be too much to handle? When the whole Earth is just a giant mass of concrete? By the time either of those happen, it'll be too late to do anything to stop it. :=L:
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