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On Oct 13, 1:25 am, msg wrote:



Ross Archer wrote:

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Global warming is occurring,

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This could easily be the most serious threat that humankind has ever
faced.

Surely you must admit that it depends on who you are and where you live
if this is threat or opportunity. Climate change has been at the
center of evolution and the tectonic plates continue to move. Where
are the discussions regarding _preparing_ for the changes as opposed
to _preventing_ them?

Regards,

Michael

What a novel concept. Preparing for changes that have been happening
since the beginning with time - and, pardon the pun - "going with the
flow" so to speak - or trying to stop them. Maybe you should produce
a movie on that topic. But I doubt the powers that be will want to
award that thinking any kind of mention - since it would do a lot to
quash all the hub bud over the environment.

Still in all, I think we are responsible for our environment - as it
were - we are the keepers, and we should try to pass the world on to
those after us in some sort of decent shape - but I'm not sure humans
can solve all the evoluntionary issues. After all, there are all
sorts of things causing the breakdown to the environment including the
fact that the earth is aging just like the rest of us.

If we didn't have 6.6 billion people on the planet -- which is
arguably too many and very much a modern phenomenon -- people would
just move as some areas formerly habitable fall to drought, and others
that were formerly a bit too cold are now habitable.

We're now in a state where mass migrations of people can't occur -- at
least not across national boundaries, and certainly not without war or
general violent conflict.

So this is a new problem, even if humans have weathered (no pun
intended) ice ages and warm periods before.

As to human role, I believe the science on it. Regardless of whether
humans are causing it, however, some thought should be given to how to
mitigate the effects, if not actually how to engineer a solution to
prevent it from happening.

Is the current climate "perfect"? No. But.... a warmer climate means
more energy in the atmosphere, which means more violent and variable
weather. That, generally, isn't a good thing.

-- ross