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About ten or fifteen years ago, I got to visit several of the Hawaiian islands. On the big island I saw new land being "created", live in front of my eyes, as l
by danielvf 11y ago
About ten or fifteen years ago, I got to visit several of the Hawaiian islands. On the big island I saw new land being "created", live in front of my eyes, as lava flowed into the sea. It just kept coming.
All my life I'd thought of land as essentially permanent, only shaped by man. I realized that this was wrong - sometimes nature shifts into unstoppable mode, and the only thing we can do is to adapt - and/or get out of the way.
If there were no global warming, the next scheduled move on the Earth's climate cycle would be an ice age. I don't think that's scientifically in dispute? Besides a lot of land going under ice, and the world getting a colder, the sea levels have historically dropped around 400 feet in the mega ice ages. It would be epic.
People have survived them in the past, but it's certainly something that gets a lot of people moving.
- deanCommie 11y agoYour capacity for self-deception is alarming. Yes, nature can be more powerful than man. But we are not powerless. The scientific consensus is not in dispute. The next asteroid to hit the earth will also be a big problem, but we need to survive until then, and the next ice age. Or, how about THRIVE, instead of survive