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"Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced."

This dialog appears on the website for the movie An Inconvenient Truth (http://www.climatecrisis.net/ aboutthefilm/), a film that features Al Gore in a witch hunt against global warming. The site explains sciences and all sorts of measurements and even pretends that it explains something, but it does not. The movie is a freak-out to encourage people to redesign human civilization to work in a firmer accord with all of nature, which will never happen. What the film fails to point out is that death is the most popular occurrence for life throughout all of history, and that change is the most popular activity for our planet to go through.

At one time, Earth's atmosphere was methane and carbon dioxide, and that's it.
We, humans, can hold on to our ball of dirt for a while longer but it's not just us, it's killing itself, too. Why, the temperature of the Earth increased an average of one degree in three days (a variance that can take years, sometime centuries) when the volcano Mt. Pinatubo erupted back in '91 (shortly after Mt. St. Helen, which is still smoking) and that could be the cause of all this global warming (plus deforestation which forces carbon dioxide levels to not decrease).

The clear answer after all of those billions of dollars were spent on environmental research, is plant trees and don't cut any down.

"But Alvin, where will we get wood-stuffs? Our society depends on wood."

The inconvenient truth is that hemp is the best natural resource for: clean burning fuel, biodegradable plastics; burnables, paper, cloth; the Ford Model T was made entirely out of hemp and ran on hemp gas.

Unless someone's building a fleet of space ships I haven't heard about, we'll have to do something drastic. Some rich people will suffer a little (if humans switch from privately owned fossil fuels to hemp that grows in almost any kind of dirt and climate and is continuously renewable) and some anti-drug people will be confused for a little while. And that would be the worst of it.

There, half of the world's problems solved... now for peace on Earth.

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