Denying Problems When We Don’t Like the Solutions (perhaps somewhat off-topic)

[OKIsItJustMe]

39. This is an article of faith for you

It is not for me.

Our great strength as a species is our ability to learn. We are intelligent creatures who can adjust our patterns of behavior. New activities, which our genes never imagined, become “second nature” to us. (How preposterous is it that we can ride bicycles? or fly airplanes?)

Our greatest challenge will be to learn quickly enough, but, honestly, comparing our environmental consciousness today to what we had 50 years ago… we’ve come quite some way.

Consider: You know enough to despair! (That requires a level of environmental consciousness which simply did not exist just a few generations ago.)

So, no, I don’t think we’re going to die off. We didn’t die off during the last ice age, and we had a lot less going for us then.

We are faced with several challenges, but we are incredibly adaptable. If we can make it through the next hundred years or so, I think we’ll be OK, and, yes, I think the biosphere will be OK too.