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We can be mindful of the climate, but inevitably the sun is going to explode in roughly 5 billion years (note: the earth is 4.5 billion years old, so we're roug
by JMTQp8lwXL 7y ago
We can be mindful of the climate, but inevitably the sun is going to explode in roughly 5 billion years (note: the earth is 4.5 billion years old, so we're roughly half way through the sun soaked portion of Earth's existence). The Earth will continue to possibly exist, but sunlight does seem critical to supporting the food chain, and more broadly, life.
We can legislatively protect the Earth for the future --and it should be welcomed-- but the future is coming for us. Over extremely long horizons, no law will save us. And modern humans have only existed for 200,000 years -- would such a law protect generations that are no longer Homo Sapiens, but are our descendants? If we do indeed succeed in protecting our planet, with enough time (short by geological standards) we won't even exist in our current form.
- saagarjha 7y agoAt the risk of sounding hypocritical, I think we can ignore that issue for now.
- FranzFerdiNaN 7y agoWrap it up folks, no use doing anything at all because in 5 billion years the sun wil explode.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoI am supportive of us do something about climate change. It's just isn't a panacea to all our problems. It seems counterintuitive to be worried about climate change, to protect future generations, but then ignore planetary death because that's "too far out", when the whole premise of stopping climate change is to give future humans a shot at continuing the species.
- esotericn 7y agoYo, I've just killed your dog and reformatted your HDD. No big, the sun's going down in 5 billion years. :D