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Originally Posted by Gus1234U
what i find interesting is not the debate over whether humans are causing global climate change or not,, we clearly are huge contributors to the ecological devastation of the world... but that so many believe that the "end of the world as we know it" is inevitable and inescapable, and are just walking out towards that tsunami wave picking up fish.
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Quite right, Gus. At least I think so. If you read through the comment columns following climate change articles in any major newspaper or blog there are so many people who seem to want the end of the world to arrive as quickly as possible. For all different kinds of reasons. I don't think that's going to happen. Serious, natural climate fluctuations (many of them) over the past million years are what some paleontologists believe has forced the evolution of homo sapiens. (See:
Humanity's Descent, by Rick Potts.) Lots of people appear to have a gut conviction that mankind is somehow an insult to nature and needs to be wound up and finished. That's very doubtful indeed. We're still a young species. We'll be around for quite some time yet.
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