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Correct me if I am wrong but at the end of the last Ice Age we did not had 7 billions people. I find the terms "Nature", "Earth", etc really ambiguous in these
by seren 11y ago
Correct me if I am wrong but at the end of the last Ice Age we did not had 7 billions people.
I find the terms "Nature", "Earth", etc really ambiguous in these kind of discussions. Sure "Earth" will be fine, will still orbit the Sun, even if it gets as hot as Venus. Cockroaches or water bears will inherit the Earth.
But people worried are not really worried about "Nature" (at least I am not) but rather about the very people that are sharing the same and only habitable, in our reach at least, planet.
Europe is considered in a major crisis for 3-4 millions Syrian refugees, now imagine if tomorrow there are 100 or 200 millions refugees moving all around the world.
In the end, it is only a "people" issue.
- marcus_holmes 11y agoWe only had a few million people during the Ice Age. I live in Australia. An island inhabited by a few hundred thousand people using stone-age technology until colonisation. Now there are 25 million of us here. Yes Europe is having a problem with a few million refugees, but it's less of a problem than it had from 1939-45. And it recovered from that pretty quickly. We're used to a level of peace and comfort unparalleled in human history, and perturbations of that feel like TOTAL DISASTERS to us. We can cope and adapt to much greater events than we would ever believe watching the news. And yes, Nature will cope. So will we.