Originally Posted by
JAlli41
First off, its a little funny that anthroprogenic global warming is still being questioned, as the science community is already beyond it and now debating what the results of it will be. (And when you call me an idiot for believing in the "global warming myth," please don't bring up arguments raised by Michael Crichton). And even more odd is the fact that Europeans are questioning it at all and Europe is quickly becoming the home of "enviro-terrorism" and is leading the charge towards trying to police away pollution. But the global warming debate should be focused on what can be/should be done about it. If global warming is completely destructive, it may be unstoppable, you can push a car down a hill, but once its rolling it gets very hard to stop. On the environmental front the important issues that should be focused on, but seem to be skipped over are those of sustainability, how do we make sure we have fresh water to drink? plenty of fish swimming in the ocean to eat? clean air to breath? I believe that the answers come from a mix of personal repsonsibilty for each person to keep their own environment clean, strict property rights, as well as enterprise and innovation in areas such as water purification, arificial reproduction medications for endangered species, and renewable energies.
As for the EU, I am in college studying international relations and I've found that the longest lasting, and most powerful international bodies, UN, NATO, ect, are the ones who ironically, have the least power. As long as the EU stays what it was originally meant to be, a weak, peacekeeping body which promotes open borders and free travel of economic resources through Europe, it probably wont disolve. However as history has told us, glimpses of power often lead to pushes for more power and corruption, which will end up turning Europeans against it and cause them to believe that it is an illigitimate body that has no sovereignty over their nation (as Europe hold no collective ethnicity, languge, or religion). As for stopping war the EU has been a complete failure, the EU has existed through ideological wars in Vietnam, ethnic wars in the Balkans, wars of territory in the Falklands, and wars of economic commodities in Iraq an Kuwait. Major wars have only been averted because of the presence of Nuclear weapons in France, Russia, China, and the UK's strong alliance with the US.
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