| Re: Is the earth really dying?
I agree, don't think we are gonna kill the earth, there have been far more catastrophic and fast moving events than the human induced climate change we seem to be effecting. The onset of the last ice age was really quite fast, a geologist once told me it had and could happen again in less than a century, about sixty years! We are doing so much damage we have to do something to mitigate it although it might be that we have passed the point of no return, James Lovelock is of that view, his estimate of half the worlds population dying out without hope of reversing that might be extreme, it does sound it but i don't think anyone knows.
Also agree that we are in an interglacial period, it would be so arrogant to assume that just because we are here that anoher ice age couldn't happen, or something even worse, a super volcano, hell the shape of Yellowstone changes as it grows new lumps from it's surface! Ash cloud obscures the sun no plants total collapse of food webs and ecosystems...scary |