posted on Sep, 13 2018 @ 02:29 PM
originally posted by: Fallingdown
a reply to: dug88
So in your opinion the climate has never changed on earth before ?
It has thousands of times. But this time is special ?
I could go on with this endlessly but I'm not going to .
This is a dumb argument. Yes it obviously has. There's tons of records showing this. Also just so happens a good number of major extinction events
took place during climate shifts. As far as us and most of our agriculture and ecosystems go though, they're adapted to the relatively stable, over
the last 20,000 years or so, climate that has been. Even smaller changes within that time caused human starvation, plant and animal extinctions and
drastically changed areas of the world.
Humans rely on plants and animals adapted to these climate conditions to survive. Sure planet earth will go on, the things we depend on to survive may
not.
Many of those other time periods with different climates you speak of would not have been habitable for us. That's the whole point. We're turning the
world.into a place that, sure life will continue, but it's not going to be very great for us and the things alive now.
Just in my lifetime the place I live went from having 4 fairly predictable seasons with no real extreme temperatures to basically a wet season and dry
season where temperatures regularly reach 40°C.
Over the last few years, crops that used to do well here have begun failing. Animal migrations are #ed. Song birds, geese and ducks over winter here
now. The massive forest fires, which are not only getting worse because of higher temperatures and droughts, but because more parasites are thriving
and leaving more dead and dying trees to burn. Just look at what's happened because of pine beetles.
Personally, I dislike the idea of a world where only the #tiest plants and animals that adapt themselves to our pollution survive.
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