Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From the morn to the night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour! He's so quaint and so terse, both in prose and in verse; Yet though people forgive his transgression, There are one or two rules that all family fools Must observe, if they love their profession. [Yeomen of the Guard, Gilbert & Sullivan]
Friday, December 14, 2018
"Save the Planet!"
Nope... Earth will get along.
The geologic record includes many past mass extinctions.
The planet is still here.
Combatting human-caused global warming is not about the planet, it's about US.
(Well... and the polar bears.)
Some huge percentage of all species that have ever existed are no longer with us.
Think T-Rex.
Combatting human-caused warming is not to "save the planet" - it's to save US!
The next mass extinction in the newly named "Anthropocene" is very likely to include H. sapiens.
The universe won't notice.
Biologists have witnessed many species that have multiplied beyond natures capacity to support the population causing the species to become extinct. It seems to be happening the human species too.
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