Has the world gone mad?!

[Zenith]

Except for the conflicts that have to do with land, resources, ethnic tensions, etc.

But your explanations are fine too, totally okay to ignore everything else to bring down an institution you don't like.

 

[HolyMackerel]

I'm pretty sure the world is in a very dark place right now, but when is it not? We are just facing a time were we, as in the USA, might be one of those countries that may be in some serious Shinx. If China decides to take over, then there we go. A lot of us will probably try to escape. Some of us may not.

Let's be honest. I die, how many of you will know? If I die, then I will not use the computer anymore. No one here knows me personally beyond three people. And NONE of them would bother to post my death on here. Let's be honest. If I died right now, all of you guys would I just went inactive. Maybe I quit Pokemon. Who knows? And finally, who cares?

If I died, right now, the world wouldn't explode. Stars wouldn't die. Countries wouldn't fall. Sure, a small group of people would know about and care. But honestly, do each and everyone of us really...matter?


As crazy as it seems, THAT is what I am worried about. I am worried that one day one of you will pass, and I will never know what happened to you. I will just assume that you went inactive. I'm afraid that I depend too much on things that don't depend on me.

 

[Card Slinger J]

I'm pretty sure the world is in a very dark place right now, but when is it not? We are just facing a time were we, as in the USA, might be one of those countries that may be in some serious Shinx. If China decides to take over, then there we go. A lot of us will probably try to escape. Some of us may not.

The U.S. is trying to get a better relationship with China, the thing is that America can't afford to let China win and potentially crumble us into a Third World Country like Haiti. Our country has many issues and reforms that need to be resolved in a smart manner with responsibility and soon.

While China has gone Green in terms of Energy, the U.S. is still stuck filling their gas tanks to oil companies like OPEC which feeds off to more money to terrorist organizations like the Taliban and that's one of the reasons why we need to stave off our dependance on foreign oil.

 

[Pokequaza]

While China has gone Green in terms of Energy

China has gone anything except green. Where in 2005 China has about the same CO2 emissions as the USA (5.8 billion of metric tonnes), it has now risen to a shocking 8.1 billion tonnes of CO2 a year. China emits almost half of all sulfurdioxide in the world [1]. Not surprising, since China has almost tripled their consumption of coal since 2000 [2].

And besides, China owns about all of the mines in Africa, so if there's one country that won't go and doesn't have to go green in the next decades, it's China. It's a smart move as well, as all the fuels slowly run out everywhere China has still plenty of it and of course you can expect China making a lot money out of it. When every source is dried up, all the big polluters will be begging China on their knees for more.

[1]: http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/6826/so2emission.png
[2]: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/china-coal-consumption-production-1980-2009.png

 

[Card Slinger J]

It's obvious that China doesn't care about how the climate of our planet is changing and is causing global warming. If we are to save this planet everyone across the globe needs to go Green, America had a reason to go Green yet none of our neighbors are listening. You hear about how the polar ice caps are melting and that climate change is effecting hurricanes and other forms of weather costing people money for charities and losing lives for no reason whatsoever.

That needs to stop, China and the World needs to take action on this. One problem though is that it's probably costing these foreign countries money to pull it off and given the state of the current Economy that's easier said than done I'm afraid. What's slowing down America's Economic Recovery is the European Debt Crisis that needs to be fixed, lots of things need to be done so that America will still survive as a superpower to "compete" with other superpowers like China and Russia in the future If we have one at least.

 

[XieRH]

China has gone Green in terms of Energy

It's obvious that China doesn't care about how the climate of our planet is changing and is causing global warming

Bahaha~






Now on the issue.

People talk about saving the environment as thought it were some really easy thing to do. Doing something always causes compromises in some other area, and that is why countries aren't scrambling to go green all the way. Governments know this, and they act according to issues that demand more immediate concern first. My country (which has limited land space) in the past, was faced with the choice: mow down this beautiful forest to build housing to meet housing demands, or keep the beautiful natural environment intact and have 10 000+ homeless people in the near future. No prizes in guessing which choice they went for.

 

[Card Slinger J]

Bahaha~

You know as well as I do that China is contributing to climate change as bad as America and every other country on this planet. Speaking of which what country are you from XieRH?

 

[Pokequaza]

It's obvious that China doesn't care about how the climate of our planet is changing and is causing global warming

Bahaha~

And I thought to be nice to ignore it. Graphs are just so great, they have the ability to change your mind in a matter of a second, I love it!

It's obvious that China doesn't care about how the climate of our planet is changing and is causing global warming. If we are to save this planet everyone across the globe needs to go Green, America had a reason to go Green yet none of our neighbors are listening. You hear about how the polar ice caps are melting and that climate change is effecting hurricanes and other forms of weather costing people money for charities and losing lives for no reason whatsoever.

You are talking like the US is the only country that has gone green whereas all the others are the big polluters. To contrary, many countries have gone green whereas the US is still one of the bigger polluters. You have to tendency to think the US is the best and the tendency to act like that what you think you know is fact. Be careful with that.

That needs to stop, China and the World needs to take action on this. One problem though is that it's probably costing these foreign countries money to pull it off and given the state of the current Economy that's easier said than done I'm afraid. What's slowing down America's Economic Recovery is the European Debt Crisis that needs to be fixed, lots of things need to be done so that America will still survive as a superpower to "compete" with other superpowers like China and Russia in the future If we have one at least.

Perhaps the US has been a 'superpower' (I hope you mean leading country or something along that lines) in the past, but that time is over. And no, the US won't recover either from their debts, it is already bankrupted, we only need to wait till the money count hits zero. China won't forget all the money she gets from the US, so unless they come up with a deal of some sort it is almost certain that the US will go bankrupt.

 

[Card Slinger J]

So the fate of America rests in the hands of China, that's kind of a scary thought when you put it that way. But yeah you're right the US and China need to make some kind of agreement or a deal to keep both countries going. That's most likely one of the answers to getting out of the economic crisis that we're in. If the U.S. isn't recovering from their debt problems then how is that reflecting in the Dow Jones and New York Stock Exchange? Wall Street seems to be recovering at a steady pace since AIG and Lehman Brothers put the US Economy on it's knees.

Some people have been arguing that ObamaCare could drive America much more closer to bankruptcy than ever. Repealing it may or may not be a bad idea, who knows really. As Obama mentioned in his last State of the Union Speech, he suggested a 5 year Pay Freeze which wouldn't be a good idea when Massive Cuts on Government Spending is a better solution to curb America's National Debt problem or perhaps the damage might have already been done under the Bush Administration.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/27/opinion-rein-in-spending-to-help-get-control-of-national-debt/

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

 

[HolyMackerel]

Wow. Can't believe I started that whole arguement. It's like I'm a panic-god or something...

Er-hem. Anyways, what we are going through now can't be worse than what was going through the minds of people during the Cold War. I would have been freaked out. So, I guess I'm happy to have peace in mind now.