Environmental Apocalypse?

By Simon P. Bargetzi

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669826149

Simon P. Bargetzi

Simon Peter Bargetzi, Author of several books lives in Canada half of the year and the rest in Europe and the USA. He brings a share of knowledge and embraces these perception and philosophies in this book. He is retired and enjoys travelling, gardening, and writing.

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What environmental scenario does nature create?

Do we humans with our conservation activities

make a difference in the environment?

Are humans capable to destroy nature?

Or is Nature in charge?

Observations from the beginning

of the world to the environmental challenges

regarding human influence

on planet Earth.

We have only a short while to live

on this planet.

Let us make the best of it!

carpe diem

2022

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1:  How Did Earth Emerge and Develop?

Chapter 2:  Fact or Illusion?

Chapter 3:  Environmental Alternatives

Chapter 4:  Environmental Attitudes

Chapter 5:  Other Environmental Pollutions

Chapter 6:  Further Alternative Solutions

Chapter 7:  Understanding Attitudes And Actions

Conclusion

Post scriptum

Addendum

Bibliography

Venture

We are going on

a journey

into the world

of popular believes and opinions of environmental

destruction of our world

thru CO2 pollutions

Fundamental questions:

• How did our world, earth, come into existence?

• What was necessary to become a livable planet for humans and animals?

• What did the volcanoes, the continental shifts contribute to the current state?

• Was CO2 a determining factor for life on earth?

• What did we, the humans, contribute to the environmental conditions?

• Do we destruct our living environment?

• Are we stronger than nature?

INTRODUCTION

Understanding the universe is a gigantic challenge for scientists, and almost impossible for the rest of the world. With all our technology, we cannot even touch a fraction of the whole. The immeasurable cosmos will probably stay forever out of reach for us. How mind-boggling are the distances of millions of light-years between each solar system. If we could one day technologically reach the speed of light, it would still be impossible to travel from one solar system to another without it taking numerous human lifetimes to complete the trip. If there were to be a possibility of humans reaching another solar system, it would not be the same individuals who began the trip. Whole lifetimes would be spent in transit. Sending satellites equipped with strong telescopes into space have clearly revealed to us the immensity of the cosmos. It seems to our understanding that the cosmos has no beginning and no end, but I am convinced that the universe is an all-encompassing unit with an expanding outer sphere (universe expansion in time and space). Scientists have already discovered other universe systems of gigantic dimensions, and they will continue to discover what remains for now unexplainable phenomena in this infinite universe.

We are accompanied by other planets in our solar system: Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Mercury, Neptune, and Saturn. Earth has one moon; others have none or several. But all are kept in balance with each other. Earth and its human inhabitants contribute nothing to the balance of that energy system.

The human species, our ancestors, evolved and began to proliferate and flourish. We have developed since into a respectable human species. We could, over time, improve our life conditions, develop our brain and intelligence, and enjoy the fruits of hard labor. Today we have reached a point where we should step back and contemplate our goals for future development and determine what we should do with our lives, with our attitudes, and with our environment. We have created many challenges—some may call them problems—which could at least disturb our planet or damage its natural systems to the point of no return.

We should think twice before we make the statement that global warming is caused only by humans. By design, nature has dictated the temperatures of the earth over eons. We have and never will be able to significantly influence this system, excepted maybe with a nuclear holocaust. The size of nature’s influence is too big to be changed completely by our activities. We just don’t have the sources and capacity to change the progress of nature that has been predesigned by evolution. Nature is and will always be the only one in charge.

Locally, however, we could alter our living conditions by polluting the air we breathe. Depriving big cities of oxygen because of air pollution can certainly be a problem for the cities.

It is a fact that we have created heat sinks in cities due to the concrete and blacktop streets and parking areas, as well as concrete and glass buildings. Cites therefore are generally a degree warmer than rural areas. In the last century this has resulted in increased size of cities, population, and activity.

Earth is either increasing or decreasing its distance to the sun over millions and millions of years. Its orbit around the sun has evolved into an elliptic circle. Earth’s magnetic axis deviates increasingly from the pole axis and causes climatic changes due to the distance and axis of Earth to the sun. The climate on Earth is considerably influenced by these factors.

The claim made by Greta Thunberg in front of the United Assembly that the politician have caused a significant influence in the global environmental changes and that they have destroyed her life is farfetched and unscientific, and unsubstantiated. She may be correct that our politicians have neglected the youth’s mental wellbeing. It is more likely that they will destroy their existence by lavish and uncontrolled demands and behavior that significantly reduces the quality of life which could also be a failure of the parents and society. But how can a non-scientific young person such as Greta, without experience in environmental science, make such emotional statements that the world and the ecosystem is collapsing? That we the people have destroyed her life and the environment, and the youth lives are ruined and without hope. That expression could only be possible thru influence of the lobbyists. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez predicted in 2019 that we will have a doomsday for our existence in ten to twelve years. The claim was made that the Earth will end and a possible collapse due to the CO2 (greenhouse gas effects) ; will this happen? It is neither predictable nor possible to prove with the data of today how pollution will increase and if these predictions will materialize. These are pure hypothetical predictions based on assumed and projected data in the science, but these are hypothetical/assumptions models. We are now more than ten years past previous predications (Gore et al) and nature still shows us that globally nothing has happened. The flora has shown no ill effects. Claiming that the CO2 greenhouse gas effect will destroy nature can be scientifically refuted. Dr. Patrick Moore, former president of Greenpeace, explained that when the level of CO2 reaches four thousand to five thousand ppm (deadly level for humans, animals, and flora), we will have a critical mass and nature and humans will have to make drastic adaptations. We are at a level of 350 ppm (because of cities and heavy industrial areas), and the environment is still thriving. The solution of using high smokestacks—environmentalist at that time thought that this was a clever solution—only dispersed the pollution into the atmosphere faster. Today, with levels below the existing ppm, the flora and fauna grow and flourish. The plants are doing well, as we