Fresh Water?

Would you like a drink of fresh water? OK, let's go get some. Hey! Wait a minute, where is it made?

Water isn't manufactured, at least not in any major quantity. It is recycled. The water in your Perrier may have once exited Julius Caeser's bladder, or at least a molecule of it may have.

The point is that chemistry does not create things, it merely rearranges atoms and molecules. Physics can and does create and destroy matter, but again, not in any really significant quantities.

Man has the ability to create matter, but almost all of his ability to create is limited to intangible ideas. Properly speaking, man rearranges matter, he does not create or destroy it to any significant extent.

Physics shows us that matter and energy are the same thing.

When I hear of carbon footprints, global warming and other pseudo-scientific nonsense, my first thought is always "Who made this glass of water?"

Man does not pollute the environment, he merely moves or rearranges the elements and molecules that already exist. Every bit of trash and garbage that we generate is a treasure trove of molecular soup that should be used as a source for the atoms and molecules that we need for making useful things.

Only when we learn that recycling is the way of nature will we begin to understand that "pollution" is self controlling. Our failure to control it will lead to our failure to exist. But Mother Nature will then rearrange the stuff that is left to her own ends. This is as it should be, and nothing man can do will change Mother Nature.

It is the height of arrogance for man to assume that he is capable of harming nature, for it is nature that has all the power. We should harness that power to our own benefit, instead of trying to wrest it away for our own. We couldn't control such power anyway.

The global warming scam that only 30 years ago was global cooling is the perfect example of man trying to steal the power of nature, and as all such efforts do, it will fail. Nature abhors not only a vacuum, but a vacuum of knowledge. The warming and cooling cycles of Earth have been around much longer than has man.

As a matter of fact, man's entire recorded history has been within a single cycle of climate change. Don't take my word for it, do the research! Or shut up. I am tired of your shrill ignorance and silly fads.

After all, some of you really believe that some guy named Gore invented the internet, too.