Posted on 06/15/2004 1:47:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
So, this process probably started well before humans made any significant impact on the environment.
Weren't most modern day deserts forests in the past? But maybe I'm remembering my earth science of 30 years ago incorrectly.
LOL!Good one.
That points out a problem with the Bering land bridge that people supposedly walked across last Ice Age. It was a thousand miles of desert. A major expedition might make it across, but a hunting party would not be interested.
That's exactly what the Brits did with the 18th Century(?)Enclosures Act, which solved the problem of overgrazing on common land ("The Tragedy of the Commons").
Lets see. The earth has 57,308,738 square miles of land mass. Say 10 million of that is already desert, so over 47 million habitable. At a rate of 1,374 miles a year turning into desert, in 34,000 years we're looking at a disaster starring a very very old Dennis Quaid in, "The Day After Tomorrow...34,000 Years From Now!"
The UN could always start a "sand for food" program.
Oh, brother! And how much will it cost our grandchildren if this U.N. announced crisis du jour turns out to be nothing more than a red herring to distract folks from the U.N. "Oil-For-Food" scandal, and money that might have been spent on medicinal research, technology, the arts and science -- things that would have raised the quality of our grandchildren's lives -- instead vanished,once again,down the bureaucratic rat hole?
The Sahara was green and inhabited during the Ice Age. It rained, there were rivers and lakes. It rained in Egypt so much they didn't rely on the Nile or its flooding.
Amen! Like the saying goes: "When everybody owns everything*, nobody takes care of anything."
(*a la socialism/communism)
At the Ice Age max, wasn't N Europe iced over?
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs. Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height, down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh, this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite. Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic, slam, but neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...
(It's time I had some time alone)
Nah, I'd rather see them turned into salt. ;-)
WHAT?????
Party time!!
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LOL!! Kegger at FC's place!
The UN should rename itself "The Tower of Dome."
They could wear black robes and read chicken entrails every day for a year and issue disaster warnings. Then to rescue them we'll send in 10 tank battalions to blow up the tower. We can film it and call it "The Day After the Day After Tomorrow." or "Repitition Breeds Insanity, Over and Over."
Big Spring, Texas
I don't live near there-- thank goodness.
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