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Apr 26 2014, 12:53 AM Post #1 |
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What do you think are some of the greatest issues that our world faces? And do you think the issues can be solved? How come? Why not?
Edited by Professor Gohan, Apr 26 2014, 12:56 AM.
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| + Pelador | Apr 26 2014, 01:17 AM Post #2 |
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Just stuff from space crashing into the planet and causing havoc. Comets are a concern. Apparently they can do far more damage than a meteor. Giant solar flares and various types of waves might be problematic too. Waves in space not from the sea. For instance maybe I misunderstood but a scientist on tv was talking about what can happen if binary neutron stars collide with each other. From what I could make out it creates a pretty devastating wave that travels at incredible speed over vast distances, wrecking everything in it's wake including whole planets. I don't know if much else is seriously going to harm us as a species long term. I don't think a nuclear war is likely and I don't think that climate change is enough to do serious damage worldwide. Especially with many nations having initiatives to combat it and scientists all over the world working around the clock to find greener ways to live our lives. Don't get me wrong, it is a problem and it needs to be addressed and the we should never get complacent about it. But I think we are doing enough globally right now to stop it becoming a catastrophe. |
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| + Steve | Apr 26 2014, 01:45 AM Post #3 |
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Yeah like Pel said things from space smashing in to the planet. The worst part is that it's almost impossible to see objects heading towards us until they either cover a light source or reflect light from something, so if you look at the night sky any of that black could be a huge a*** rock slowly making it's way here. As for what we could do about it I think railguns are the only decent solution we're close too though it wouldn't be perfect by any means. They could fire a warhead or multiple inside the object and blow it up from there rather than surface damage which would mostly be deflected, the problem is the debris it would be hard for us to recover from all the damage including most likely a lot of satellites. But that's a lot better than half the planet being destroyed or the atmosphere being burnt away. Space is scary. The supervolcano at Yellowstone is the only other major threat, probably the biggest if there was an earthquake at the wrong place or it's time was just up there's nothing we could do. People in bunkers would survive no doubt but there'd be almost nothing left on the surface. Only thing we could hope to do is find a way to release the pressure but with so big a thing...how... Meaning species rather than world nuclear war because of North Korea or Russia or a virus, something like cordyceps could be engineered to affect humans by some crazy person and kill us all. |
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| * Ketchup Revenge | Apr 26 2014, 02:33 AM Post #4 |
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Aside from all types of natural disasters, pollution and the energy crisis are both pretty serious problems as well. Our oil stocks are running out, and the US oil production peaked in the 1970s, but has been on a decline since then. The main problem is that not enough people are looking seriously enough into alternative energy sources, which sucks because oil literally runs the world from cars, to power plants (which fuel EVERYTHING). The US is doing away with power plants that run on nuclear energy, so we're going to have to find an alternative means of producing energy. People go on and on about solar energy, but the problem is that the plants that produce solar panels run on oil. Most cars run on oil (gas), and automakers just keep making them. Not many companies have transitioned to electric cars or hydrogen powered cars. Providing fresh water for growing cities is becoming an issue too. The southern region of California takes water from an underground reservoir on the other side of the Rockies, but the problem is that reservoir doesn't replenish. Once that reservoir runs dry, Los Angeles will run dry as well. Boston is currently looking into alternate places to draw water from too. They actually destroyed several towns in central Massachusetts back in the 1950s in order to build a reservoir. Now Boston is thinking about destroying more towns in order to feed its growing demand for water, but the people of central and western Massachusetts have told Boston to go "F" themselves. Pollution is a serious issue as well, which is tied into our oil consumption. Global warming, of which only 6 degrees Celsius can put us in another ice age, or cause serious droughts where our livestock and crops will die. Edited by Ketchup Revenge, Apr 26 2014, 02:37 AM.
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| + Havoc_Wreaker | Apr 26 2014, 02:52 AM Post #5 |
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actually US is sitting on a lot of oil right now to be more frank more then all of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) thanks teach u actually taught me something also food is not a problem atleast production wise we produce 120%, more then enough to sustain food for the world just too much isnt distributed properly and billions is wasted(thanks US,India,Uk ect...) but there are problems out there, like the above have mentioned |
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| + Steve | Apr 26 2014, 10:51 AM Post #6 |
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Hopefully any solution to the oil problem won't involve "...KILL MORE TREES" I think we should just stop making cars really, there are enough, the laws should just be updated so that you can not have one unless you drive more than just yourself around a whole car for one person is just stupid. Then public transport could be relied on more and thus be more profitable, I watched a documentary or part of one about how they have the technology to make levitating trains using gravity that use no fuel to move, like in The Island. For solar energy I wonder if satellites firing a laser down to Earth could be viable, if anyone remembers the James Bond movie Die Another Day where the villain has a satellite with a big reflective sheet thing that reflects the suns rays in to a laser. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work but instead of a reflective sheet one of carbon nanotubes over a huge area to absorb a lot more sunlight than some small panel, the sunlight should be stronger in space too. Overall I think we could relatively easily solve most of the problems we face but everyone enjoys the comfortable life style with their fancy gas guzzling cars and poor recycling routine too much, to relate this to yet another movie  as said in The Day The Earth Stood Still humans only really change when it becomes absolutely necessary.
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| * Ketchup Revenge | Apr 26 2014, 05:50 PM Post #7 |
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I will agree that we are sitting on a lot of oil, but we still don't have nearly what we did in the 70s, and it's steadily declining. Those reserves that we're sitting on are going to run out. It's not a matter of if, it's when. Just to bring to your attention, you're looking at food production far too too narrowly. You simply look at what happens during food production, but don't even think about what makes those processes work. Everything is tied to oil consumption, even industrial food production. What do you think powers the irrigation pumps and the tractors that harvest the corn? It's all powered by oil. Without those two key elements in agriculture, nowhere near as much can be produced or harvested. A decent percentage of the corn that we produce not only gets exported, but gets made into grain for livestock, and ethanol for oil companies. So essentially, we need to feed our food sources before we process them to feed us, and the way to do that is with corn. Without the same corn production that we have now, the same amount of cows and chickens can't be fed. Without corn, cows, and chickens, people start to starve. You'd be shocked at how many people are completely ignorant to the food production process. A lot of people, more specifically inner city, who have never experienced how farms work, simply believe that meat just appears out of nowhere in stores. I'm completely serious about this. Edited by Ketchup Revenge, Apr 26 2014, 05:54 PM.
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| + Steve | Apr 27 2014, 12:18 AM Post #8 |
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Yeah when times are tough it's the people who are unfortunate now who will survive not rich spoiled people that need a servant to make a sandwich for them. I kind of like that karma/irony, relatively rich people look down on the poor but in the end it will be them who survives. Another way the world could end up is like the film Idiocracy rather than Wall-E, just less advanced. Basically everyone in the future is just a complete idiot, trying to water plants with Brawndo(an energy drink) because the adverts say electrolytes make plants grow... The rich world will be like that if we don't make it to space that is. I guess proper crude oil could be made from compressing fish matter and everything else that goes in to making it, similar to how scientists can make diamonds with machines instead of waiting millions of years for the pressure to create them. However we'd have to kill like all the fish or it would end up like that eventually no way is that sustainable or efficient but if could last until there's another solution. |
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| + Havoc_Wreaker | Apr 27 2014, 12:31 AM Post #9 |
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yeah assassin, they need to dig some of dat oil up and share with canada lol |
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| * Ketchup Revenge | Apr 27 2014, 03:17 AM Post #10 |
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I don't disagree with the fish thing, but it all comes down to affordability. Doing that would cost a crap-ton of money, and because of this, it wouldn't be practical as a universal fuel source. This is the one reason why they don't produce ethanol as a practical fuel source, and produce it simply as an additive... even though we could produce it as an independent fuel source if we wanted to. However, the process of turning corn into ethanol simply costs too much money. Not to mention, the food chain would break down if you killed all the fish in the world, which would cause more serious problems for the ecosystem. |
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| + Havoc_Wreaker | Apr 27 2014, 06:05 AM Post #11 |
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assassin read the other part of ur post now lol i didnt read all of it before im sworry  , as far as food production, yeah its really all controlled by the us and such they have patents on seeds(im serious), and u can only grow certain kinds or u get ur a*** sued local farms are being hit hard(across the world) cause they have to grow super seed and stuff but they change every harvesting season, then u need to by this new thing and that, more costs then ever before, more problems arise then beforeand some other stuff, i dont pay attention in class lol, point being its overly controlled and big companies benefit. my point was just that there needs to be less control and better sharing of food i mean we can already sustain 20% then we need to, we're just too stupid is all Edited by Havoc_Wreaker, Apr 27 2014, 06:06 AM.
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| rusty_sim | Apr 27 2014, 08:40 AM Post #12 |
 
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I work in oil & gas and can say that most of the easy stuff is gone. The US has gone into fracking their shale gas, but in doing so is becoming self sufficient and not dependent on foreign oil. Other companies are looking into deepwater operations. LNG has taken off like crazy and China&Japan are buying the stuff by the shipload. I recently went to a national conference and was told 2050 is the expected end of oil. There's plenty of gas, and in fact most operations re inject rather than flare. As chemical engineers we talk about the forecoming energy-water-food nexus. This will be the world's greatest battle as they are all related. I was joking with an american engineer who told me that if Al Qaeda want to take the US down, they should unbolt every bit of farm machinery secretly lol. That disturbance to the food supply would be enough to bring America to riots and burning. |
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| + Steve | Apr 27 2014, 06:31 PM Post #13 |
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Oh yeah I know all that I just mean when we have nothing left that's an option while it lasts, when it comes down to having 1% of the oil that's left if there's no immediate solution nobody will care too much about destroying the ocean. Though actually if it gets that bad we'll probably just end it with nuclear war, one country will get greedy and try to take the others oil, if no solution is found that is inevitable. As you said oil is pretty much the biggest issue humans face we're too dependent on it. |
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| + Pointer | Apr 27 2014, 06:36 PM Post #14 |
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Poverty and Capitalism We have to get rid of them Poverty is the first result of the great capitalism I know that money is the moving gear of this system But it only favors those few billionaire if not trillionaire who had the 90% of the existing money... Sad but true the world can not be a better place if the capitalism exists........ |
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| + Pelador | Apr 27 2014, 06:54 PM Post #15 |
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What's the alternative? A barter system? |
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