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Climate Change Means Extinction

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rangerrebew:
Climate Change Means Extinction
 
Recently, an article in The Guardian pointed out the long game of climate change: the acceleration of species extinction. At this point, according to the World Wildlife Federation, “at least” 10,000 species go extinct every year.

*Animal Challenges

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*Coffee Has A Role
 
Treehunger recently called the current period the “sixth mass extinction.” As part of a long list of issues, “Since 2000, 20% of the earth’s vegetated surface has become less productive. In the oceans, a third of fishing areas are being overharvested. Birds that eat crop pests are down by 11%.” Most of the world’s crops are polluted. Species in this ecosystem are part of the list of those disappearing. The message is that human commerce has started to be undermined.

Forests Disappear

The disappearance of vast forests due to human activity also massively reduces the earth’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere. Forests also support several industries, including building infrastructure for businesses and residences.

None of the analyses about extinction include the possible end of humanity because that is unlikely to happen for centuries. In the meantime, the environment’s ability to support human activities is shrinking.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/climate-change-means-extinction/ar-AA1tqwWZ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=f8b0b0e871984d80aa65ed54036f9906&ei=36

rangerrebew:
Of course it could!  But only liberals who are so frightened since they started fretting when they acquired receptive language, have developed massive hypertension and kick the bucket from blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, and aneurisms. :tongue2:

Smokin Joe:
Ya think??!

Seriously, over 99% of all species that ever existed are known only from fossils.
They're dead, Jim.

You see, their climate was changing, too (and not one gas-guzzler in sight!).

What happened?

They failed to adapt.

Which brings us to the crux of the matter.
Unlike those species, we have developed technology: the ability to move about and adapt to different climatic regimens like no other creature that ever graced the planet.

Why then, does it make any sense to divest ourselves of the ability to adapt to our surroundings, whatever they are, in a vain (in more ways than one) attempt to control, in stasis, the temperature of the planet, something which has been naturally dynamic since there was a planet here?

Scientifically, from the aspect of species survival, it makes no sense. It is insanity.

As the Bard said, "Though this be madness, methinks there's method in it".
Indeed.

Those who are telling you they can control the climate are the modern day equivalent of the Medicine Show, hawking their Save the Planet elixr of the extracts of most of the enslaving aspects of government ever tried, with a few new twists, and only impoverishing their marks as they reduce freedom to bondage.

Don't be a sucker.

Climate changes, it always has. The planet will bury our bones, just like the 99+% of the species that ever existed without a shrug, should we, like those extinct creatures, fail to adapt to the changes, which will come, regardless.  Throwing away all the tools we have to effect that adaptation is patently insane.

mountaineer:
Well, we all gotta go sometime.

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