Quote Originally Posted by kygorski View Post
Man has been fighting nature since recorded times. Sometimes good sometimes bad. Call it what you will, but pictures of California, and the upper mid west will show things are changing.It's foolish to believe that we are not causing some problems. I sometimes wonder if we know what we are doing. Take for example, we are spending tons of money to study if man can go to mars, and come back. At the same time we are building robots to do many of the things man has done for centurys. Any one who thinks that doubling the population of the planet in a 100 years,dosn't change anything, is asleep
I agree bad things have been around since we started keeping records and even before for that matter. We get a hurricane now and its because of global warming. We get the hurricane forecast at the start of the season and they always say something like..."well this will be a bad year because of el nino...with a major storm hitting the USA and we fear it could be more". Well I'm pretty sure anyone on here could forecast that and if your wrong it's no big deal just guess again next year.

Do we as humans have an impact on our environment? Yes, I will agree to that. Look at our rivers, look at the smog in china, California, Colorado and Arizona and it's easy to see. Runoff from fertilizer into streams, rivers and lakes are killing many lakes. Lake Apopka and the Harris Chain of Lakes in Central Florida are perfect examples of what can happen. Its sad but Lake Apopka is still in rough condition and it was one of the best lakes when I was growing up.

I wonder when we will stop using so many chemicals on the roads in the winter months? All that runs into the water ways and has an effect. I know they are trying to reduce the chemicals or use chemicals with less impact on the environment but man I don't see it here in lexington. If a forecast comes in of a dusting from a storm you will see 50 salt trucks running the roads!