Silly people, enviromental concern is for tree huggers and hardcore vegans. Unless significant, widespread technological advances are made to prevent and reverse negative impacts, we're all going to wind up screwing ourselves over anyways. With that confession out of the way, I say do whatever we damn well want, as long as it doesn't screw up the end of our current generation, and good luck to our descendants. By "whatever we want" I of course mean within the boundaries of common sense (If we can plant trees, plant trees, so the price of paper doesn't skyrocket).
Now, regarding the asteroid. If it has to hit, I hope it hits Antarctica, so we can get snow in addition to chunks of debris and massive dust. Note that questioning the scientific backing of that logic is far too complex for the common mind to fully comprehend, thus requires no legitimate explanation. If mankind isn't lucky enough to score some snow, I s'pose we can always do away with Europe. Africa has too many uptapped resources, Asia makes cheap products to stock local Wal Marts and Australia houses dingos. It would really suck to nearly kill off a species with a name as cool as "Dingo".
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