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We are in a period between ice ages, couldn't this recent human-powered warming be a good thing in that it delays the onset of another ice age?
by leptoniscool 7y ago
We are in a period between ice ages, couldn't this recent human-powered warming be a good thing in that it delays the onset of another ice age?
- 11235813213455 7y agoThe problem is really not just global heating, but the pollution, CO2, loss of wild life, trees - the lungs of this planet. Also the variability of the climate is very detrimental for the vegetation https://youtu.be/Q_m_0UPOzuI?t=131 https://youtu.be/Q_m_0UPOzuI?t=131 And I think, before governments set a global plan, people should already change their own behaviors: consume way less, drive less, travel way less (above all when it's 'just' for vacation), stopping to have pets (pet industry is quite large, so quite polluting, and they provide no benefits to the ecosystem, unlike wild animals, even if it's not significant compared to human consumption, it's worth) and so on
- mdhen 7y agoWe are actually still in an ice age, although currently in a warming period known as an interglacial. All of human civilization has occurred in our present ice age. The ice age will end when the large ice sheets still covering land are gone. That's mostly Greenland. At which point the world will be a total mess.