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LondonReign2

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7. WE are a resilient species, but the vast majority of species are not

Reply to scheming daemons (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 5, 2013, 01:02 PM

Nov 2013

If we break the food chain, it won't matter than we can engineer modified crops or build dwellings that protect us from extreeme conditions; eveything else will die and take us with it. We need to actually reverse global warming, as you suggested, because adapting won't do it.

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Where were you when they told us the world as we know it is over? [View all] kpete Nov 2013 OP

I still... Despite everything... Have faith in human ingenuity scheming daemons Nov 2013 #1

I think you're right. We won't go meekly into the night. randome Nov 2013 #4

WE are a resilient species, but the vast majority of species are not LondonReign2 Nov 2013 #7

Human beings will adapt. Just not all seven billion. robertpaulsen Nov 2013 #11

But we'll hurl back the challenges, using Twitter, Facebook and some new apps! hatrack Nov 2013 #2

The end of the world as we know it. JNelson6563 Nov 2013 #3

in bed gopiscrap Nov 2013 #5

Time to wake up autorank Nov 2013 #6

"The People are ready".... bvar22 Nov 2013 #8

I remember when the Cover of Time said "God is Dead" Bandit Nov 2013 #9

I think I'll be okay. I and anyone my age or older. Quantess Nov 2013 #10

I for one CFLDem Nov 2013 #12

Is this comedy? I was actually being dead serious. Quantess Nov 2013 #13

I'm just injecting a little rationality into the climate madness. CFLDem Nov 2013 #14

K & R !!! WillyT Nov 2013 #15

"Where were you when they told us the world as we know it is over?" Not the impression I got, TBH... AverageJoe90 Nov 2013 #16

Summer of 1987. Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #17

After the 3rd "flood of the century" in two decades. Electric Monk Nov 2013 #18