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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 2:47 pm Post subject: Paper or Plastic? |
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I'm listening to "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman. I don't quite get the title, it's more about what we've done to the planet than what will happen when we are gone, but it is still more than worth while and very interesting. The most shocking thing I've heard so far is the extent to which plastic has spread across and throughout the world. This stuff doesn't rot, the pieces just get smaller and smaller and wind up in the oceans where sea animals ingest it and it enters the food chain.
The book will help me to remember my canvas grocery bag when I run into Safeway so often. _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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GTG Was lost but now am found
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 2387 Location: Peoria, Arizona, originally from Rocket City, USA
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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There's a special on the History Channel tonight about the world after humans are vanished. I imagine plastic will be the one thing that will remain after eons that will tell about us.
GTG _________________ Good things come to those who walk. |
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GTG Was lost but now am found
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 2387 Location: Peoria, Arizona, originally from Rocket City, USA
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Matt Hoffman
Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 701 Location: Grantham, NH
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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What a stupid concept for a show! How would anyone know what the world will be like when humans are gone? If I was making this show, I could make up any scenario I wanted. Who would say that I'm wrong? Nobody, cause nobody would be around. Does this make sense to anyone?
When humans are gone, plastic containers will rule the world. They will band together and decree a plastic 50 gallon drum their king. Peace will reign for hundreds of years until violent volcanic eruptions melt this new plastic world.
So stupid.... _________________ "Your day-glo ballet days are over." Ancient chinese proverb.
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Hikngrl Canyoneering is my 'Happy Place'
Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 5578 Location: Peoria, AZ
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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Relax Matt, it's fiction.... if it were showing at the theater billed as futuristic action movie would you be so miffed? They don't even pretend to be reporting facts....I heard imagine and imagination used on that clip several times...... _________________ ~~~Diane~~~
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MikeInFHAZ
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evenstar
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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When humans are gone Richie Rich will rule the Earth! _________________ John Richardson and Richie Rich, El Perro de Playero
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When the Man waked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting."
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Richie Rich Hooli's Da Man!
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 33
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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evenstar wrote: |
When humans are gone Richie Rich will rule the Earth! |
That's right.....why change things! |
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azhiker96
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1419
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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But poor Richie. He won't have anyone to follow him around with a plastic baggie. _________________ It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -- Carl Sagan |
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Richie Rich Hooli's Da Man!
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 33
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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azhiker96 wrote: |
But poor Richie. He won't have anyone to follow him around with a plastic baggie. |
Hooli's human |
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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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There are places on earth where the humans just walked away, in recent years, Chernobyl (SP?) comes to mind, the book mentions Cyprus, where for political reasons, the population left and didn't come back for decades, the buildings started to deteriorate, plants took over the asphalt, water systems failed, etc.
The book is more about the effect of humans on the planet, interesting section today was on the English fellow who began fertilization on plants and his experiments. _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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evenstar
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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Shawn wrote: |
There are places on earth where the humans just walked away, in recent years, Chernobyl (SP?) comes to mind, the book mentions Cyprus, where for political reasons, the population left and didn't come back for decades, the buildings started to deteriorate, plants took over the asphalt, water systems failed, etc.
The book is more about the effect of humans on the planet, interesting section today was on the English fellow who began fertilization on plants and his experiments. |
There are "plastic Islands" in the Pacific Ocean made up of our throwaways that cover many square miles....they ain't gonna go away but are just gonna keep getting bigger and bigger. Cockroaches, which will probably be the last living things on our planet, ain't gonna be happy.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean2aug02,0,3130914.story _________________ John Richardson and Richie Rich, El Perro de Playero
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http://www.arizonahikers.com
When the Man waked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting."
--Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories, 1902 |
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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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That is scary! _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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lzyboy
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 201 Location: Mesa
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Posted: 1/21/2008, 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, I don't mind chucking out a few plastic bottles if I get some of those cool fishing net floats in return. When I lived on Saipan I had a couple dozen of them...
Oh, and don't worry, there's a moon-sized meteorite headed straight for the equator, even the cockroaches are going to be space dust.... |
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Trishness The Snake Charmer
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 2530 Location: Apache Jct, AZ
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Posted: 1/22/2008, 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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GTG wrote: |
There's a special on the History Channel tonight about the world after humans are vanished. I imagine plastic will be the one thing that will remain after eons that will tell about us.
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That program was awesome. It was so true when they said the oceans would regain their prolific life and how we humans treated it as "a pantry and a toilet". _________________ ~~~Trish~~~
"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." � J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings. |
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