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MineralMan

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18. Hmm...I'm optimistic that we can make changes that will influence

Tue May 17, 2022, 01:24 PM

May 2022

climate change in a positive way. I am not convinced that those ways of influencing that have been formulated. But, I agree that it is a threat to human society as we now recognize it. I suspect that we will be reduced in numbers before those changes occur. I will not be here to see what happens though. And, since I have no offspring, neither will my genes be reflected in the future. As the population contracts, as I believe it inevitably will, different genetic mixes will be affected.

What will that be like? I do not know. I do believe that the human species will naturally adapt to a changed environment. It has done so throughout the couple of million years it has existed.

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It doesn't come into play with optimism. MineralMan May 2022 #6

Yeah BannonsLiver May 2022 #10

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On board with that!!! Peacetrain May 2022 #8

I know you are. Thanks! MineralMan May 2022 #9

WOW! I am SO glad to hear that you just pass them right by. You just move on! Scrivener7 May 2022 #11

Lol! BlackSkimmer May 2022 #19

So, do you identify with those I describe as people to avoid? MineralMan May 2022 #20

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Abject nonsense. Act_of_Reparation May 2022 #12

Interesting and rather ironic take BannonsLiver May 2022 #14

I don't know what you mean. Act_of_Reparation May 2022 #16

Not so. It is not nonsense. MineralMan May 2022 #15

Again... Act_of_Reparation May 2022 #17

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Hmm...I'm optimistic that we can make changes that will influence MineralMan May 2022 #18

What will that be like? Depends on where you live and how much money you have which will enable jalan48 May 2022 #23

Some of us are obliged to live on in the wreckage Sympthsical May 2022 #22

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Yes. You get it. MineralMan May 2022 #26

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