(August 4, 2015 at 6:35 pm)abaris Wrote:(August 4, 2015 at 6:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote: This planet is due for a severe fucking over from mother nature.
Mother nature isn't doing the fucking. The fucking has been initiated by humans wasting resources and polluting the atmosphere as if there is no tommorow.
Mother nature is only the one who will shrug us off at some time, just like an elephant is getting rid of a pesky mosquito.
I rather agree. It's not the Earth I'm "worried" about, it's what humans are doing to affect other animals and the environments that support those animals.
Barring some sort of irreversable positive feedback loop unintentionally set into motion by humans, my guess is that the Earth will be just fine and when humanity eventually nukes itself into oblivion, the remaining animal species that manage to eek out an existence through the nuclear winter that follows will evolve into the next generation of life on Earth.
How's that for optimism??

Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.