Frankly, the world as we know it is going away, soon.

[johnlucas]

233. The Earth changes...just like everything else in the Universe

On one hand I respect people who care about the environment.
You don't want smog in the air choking you & nasty poisonous chemicals getting into your system.
We should care a little about these things.

But it's arrogance to think we can totally shape the course of the planet Earth itself.
Global Warming? Meh.
Carbon Footprint? Silly.

Here's the truth. We have only been studying the climate/weather in detail for only a little over 100 years.
The weatherman/weatherwoman/meteorologist always tells us the "Normal" temperature on the 6PM weather forecast.
How in the hell are they gonna know what the "normal" temperature is based off of what they saw in the 1800s?
Was that temperature the norm in 1500 BC? How about 100,000 BC?

The Earth Changes.
No matter WHAT we do.
We have to adapt to IT. We can't force Earth to adapt to US.
Human ego is such a drawback sometimes. We really think we're bigger than what we are.

Now in the immediate sense we should try to minimize environmental damage for OUR sake.
Our civilizations don't work once we consume too much without replenishing.
We have to come up with better energy sources than oil from deep in the ground.
But we ain't hurting the Earth one bit.

Global Warming may be exacerbated by humankind's industrial excesses but it's probably part of the ongoing evolution of the planet's climate. Just like the Ice Age of the past—the Global Cooling.
All planets are just cooled off starbits. Little pieces of a star.
That's why the core is hot liquid magma, searing gas & heated plasma while the crust is lukewarm solid rock.

Stars are turbulent combustion engines & planet cores are no different.
That's why we have earthquakes, volcano, tsunamis, hurricanes/typhoons, & all that jazz.
The only reason life was able to form on this Earth is because it was just calm enough for mold to grow.
That mold evolved into every piece of life on the planet.

The other planets in our Sun System are either burnt up from being too close to the sun like Mercury...
...froze up from being too far from the sun like Neptune & Pluto...
...or clouded in turbulent elemental storms like Jupiter & Venus.
Earth is just far enough from the Sun to be cool enough for life to form & just close enough to be warm enough for life to form.
It's also turbulent enough to shake off stagnancy yet calm enough to maintain stability.

It's the Goldilocks planet where the porridge is just right.
But never forget that this crust we stand on rests above a turbulent star core.
That turbulence will keep the Earth changing as time passes by.
We can't control those changes AT ALL in our current state.
We probably SHOULDN'T have access to that control in our current state.
We don't know how to treat each other yet but we want be God over the configuration files of Planet Earth?
We don't have the admin password to access those config files.

The best we can do with environmental awareness is to be in better balance with the Earth we live on.
If we take away we must replenish & keep in balance.
It's only to prolong our inevitably dying civilizations.
They will all die eventually even if that death goes 10,000 years into the future.
We built those civilizations on what we thought was bedrock but was really mushy swampland.
The ecology we assembled our empires on is not EVER going to stay the same.

Hold it together the best you can but be prepared for the inevitable change that CANNOT be prevented.
Adaptation is the key.
That's the Inconvenient Truth.
John Lucas