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I sometimes get a little irritated at some of the "save the planet" type arguments. The planet will be just fine, it's gone through a lot of changes over the y
by Steve44 8y ago
I sometimes get a little irritated at some of the "save the planet" type arguments. The planet will be just fine, it's gone through a lot of changes over the years and will continue to go through changes. One example I often show is the sea levels 16,000 BC as explained here https://www.nationalgeographic.org/maps/doggerland/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/maps/doggerland/ by National Geographic.
What is going to have problems is the health of the ever growing Human population. Us Humans may well be heading towards a crisis, the planet won't even notice.
BTW, I think we should be working hard to support a sustainable future for Humanity and the rest of the environment.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoThe most charitable reading of ”save the planet” is: save those parts of the biosphere that might be critical to our long term survival.
- jaggederest 8y agoThe problem with that, though, is that you can't just saw those parts off and tuck them away. Cascading failure of systems is a global phenomenon.
- emodendroket 8y agoThat seems to be an almost willfully obtuse reading. Yes, obviously, Earth in some form will continue to exist whether we do anything about pollution or not.
- Steve44 8y agoYes you could see it like that but my thoughts are more we are in one of the many phases the planet goes though and it is part of evolution. I still don't want it to happen any time soon, or at all really, but have an acceptance of our transient time here.
- emodendroket 8y agoBut we ourselves are ushering in the transience