OT: If you lead the world, what would you do?

[Atrocities]

PvK is right though. If we keep trashing our environment the way we have been, there will come a point, in the not so distant future, where the damage will become so great that it cannot be undone.

I believe that the planet is a living breating thing that is changing and aging around us. We don't like to see these changes as they spell bad things for our future. From the polar caps melting, to receeding glaciers the planet is warming up. However this is to be expected as the planet changes.

I think the damage that we have done is significant, but pales in comparisson to mother nature. He have contributed a fair share of trama to the planet, but in the great skeam of things, the damge we have done over the last 150 years is rather small compared to the thousands of years that mother nature has been at work.

Right now we face several life ending events, the poles might flip, the megnetic field might collaps, the sun might go nova, we could get hit by a comit, the moon could explode, etc.

These are all real possibilities and surely one day one of them will come to pass and we will all be no more.

In the mean time we must learn to work toward protecting what we have, or we will surely loose it.

That is why under my rule, environmentalists would be given the power over millions of slaves and be ordered to clean up the planet.

[Renegade 13]

Atrocities said:
Right now we face several life ending events, the poles might flip, the megnetic field might collaps, the sun might go nova, we could get hit by a comit, the moon could explode, etc.

These are all real possibilities and surely one day one of them will come to pass and we will all be no more.

Depends what you mean by poles might flip. If you mean the magnetic poles flipping, well they posit that may happen relatively soon. They also don't think it'll have much of an impact or any impact at all on life. It's happened many times before.

Magnetic field collapse...I don't think that's too likely to be honest.

The sun is guaranteed to go nova...but not for another 4 billion years or so...

Hit by a comet, entirely possible. I'd be more worried about an asteroid though.

Moon exploding, no mechanism I know of that would cause that except for a massive impact from an asteroid or similar body.

Honestly, I'd be more worried about a supernova in our stellar neighbourhood, as that'd be guaranteed to wipe out all life. Or a gamma-ray burst nearby that was aimed in precisely the wrong direction, thus also sterilizing the Earth.

[Atrocities]

The core is hardening, and the poles magnetic field is also weakening. When it fails, and it will fail, it could signal the start of a pole polarity shift. Best guess has been that the magnetic field of the Earth will "off line" any where from six months to hundres if not thousands of years. So if the poles do flip, and they are on the virge of doing so, then we have a serious problem.

Any one have sun block 10B as in Billion?

I think it might be a good idea to invest a lot more time and money into determining what the effects of a complete or near complete magnetic field break down will be.


Oh by the way, the have proven that some of the rings of Saturan are pure frozen h20.

[TerranC]

I would implement Soylent Green. Then I would let everything else run by itself.

[Yef]

Renegade 13 said:
As the title implies, the question is, What would you do if you, and solely you, controlled the direction the world took. What would your policies be, what would you focus a united humanity on?

I would load anyone I didn't like in a transport ship, and then eject cargo.