(April 30, 2017 at 10:21 pm)Aroura Wrote:Short term is frightening. Optimism is reserved for the long term!(April 30, 2017 at 8:13 pm)Isis Wrote: Source?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4657773/
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/832250
Stressors can trigger certain illnesses, like epilepsy. But those conditions already existed, just as yet untriggered.
(April 30, 2017 at 8:55 pm)chimp3 Wrote: If we are smart enough to make fire, clothing, stone tools, and vaccines I bet we are smart enough to solve over population and global warming. Going to require a struggle but I am an optimist!
I'm glad optimists exist. I used to be one. I guess I'd call myself more of a realist now. I don't think we are doomed for certain in the short term, but it also isn't looking good.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!