RE: Can we recover from human caused climate change?
March 9, 2017 at 11:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2017 at 11:42 pm by Aroura.)
(March 9, 2017 at 10:56 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I am puzzled with this weird obsession with the climate changing.
LOL, that problem, no matter how serious it will get, is NOTHING compared to the decline in alkalinity of the oceans. And that is a direct result of the increased CO2 in the atmosphere dissolving in seawater and forming carbonic acid. The repercussions of that will DWARF global warming.
Now that, is a REAL problem.
No shit.
So don't worry about the current governmental de-emphasis on climate change, and instead, wonder why you yourself is part of the problem in regards to nobody pressing to fix the oceans.
Yeah, all part of the same shit. I did mention the extinction event. I'm talking about ALL of it. The oceans have huge dead zones, now. It's really distressing as well.
(March 9, 2017 at 11:23 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: All species go extinct. This idea that we are exceptional is silly. Even in being the architects of our own extinction, that isn't unheard-of.
How it happens isn't relevant to us, for obvious reasons. It may or may not be relevant to surviving life. Hopefully our extinction will allow more intelligent life to arise.
Right, so this I agree with. We will go extinct eventually, no doubt.
I guess I worry we will take all life on earth will us.
Hear me out. Yes, extinction events have happened before. Yes, life has recovered. But do you know WHY life recovered? Because the basis for life was still intact.
This is the very first mass extinction event that includes plants. Scientists say that during all previous know events, plants, though some died out, never hit MASS extinction. We have caused plants to be involved, which could mean no chance at recovery for life on this planet. Period. Between destroying plants, the atmosphere, and the oceans, the earth could actually become lifeless.
At any rate, knowing we will some day go extinct, does that mean we should give up and just let it happen? Does it mean we should behave completely irresponsibly? I still think we should make some efforts for future generations.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
