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

[johnlucas]

255. You have made a sensible post. People are getting too carried away

The National Weather Service has only been around since 1870 & people are freaking out about the changes that have gone on since that 150 year period.
The Earth ALWAYS changes & always WILL change.
We just have to build better civilizations that can better withstand those changes.

All I see when I hear people wigging out about Global Warming is Egos run amok.
WE'RE the cause of Earth's changes. WE rule the Earth.
No the Earth rules US. Always has. Always will.

At our current level of technology we can't withstand much of anything at an Extinction Level Event status.
The only reason life formed on this planet is because Earth was JUST STABLE ENOUGH, JUST STILL ENOUGH for the mold to form.
Think of water you leave sitting unmoved for a period of time. All kinds of creatures start popping up in those still waters.
Keep the waters moving & no mold, no wiggly-wigglies can set up shop.

Earth was JUST still enough, JUST warm enough yet JUST cool enough to allow life to form.
It's the Goldilocks planet where the porridge is just right.
But every planet is nothing more than a cooled off star piece.
Stars are turbulent combustion engines of elements. Violent raging balls of fire.
Planets are just smaller cooler version of stars.
4 states of matter from hottest to coldest: Plasma, Gas, Liquid, Solid.
Our Earth's crust & mantle are just the cooler exteriors of a hotter core.
Same elements except in a cooler state so the molecules tighten up becoming solids.
Gas erupts into the air from the Earth's inside becoming our atmosphere then cools down becoming liquids like our bodies of water.
But the fact that we have eruptions like volcanoes (both above ground & below sea) & crust/mantle shaking earthquakes is because like all baby stars Earth is a violent raging ball of fire inside.

The videogame Super Mario Galaxy pretty much spells out how the universe's galaxies & solar systems form.
All those little Star Bits that become all different sorts of planets.
And everytime Mario gets a Starman he becomes invincible to the touch.
You can't get up close to a Star like our Sun, can you?

I'm more worried about geopolitical destruction to humanity for our short-term future. Wars & stuff.
All we have to do on the ecological plane is create better balance with the barely stable Earth we live on.
Before we even THINK of trying to "Save the Planet" we better learn to get along with each other first.
John Lucas