reply to post by xnibirux
xnibrux,
I am curious about 'cycles'. Our very own Sun seems to have an 11-year 'cycle'. Our only natural satellite, the Moon, has a 29-day 'cycle'.
Our planet orbits the Sun in a 365 (and 1/4) day 'cycle'. Isn't this a bit of anthropomorphising?
All of the things mentioned above are within the lifespan of one human.
On a global scale, we now know that as recently as 20,000 years ago, give or take, our planet was in the midst of an Ice Age. Seems that irrespective
of the effects of the biomass on the planet, it (the planet) will adapt. Doesn't mean that the planet will adapt to be a suitable environment for WE
humans...it means the planet will adapt, and any organism that can survive that period of adaptation will, in turn, adapt as well to conform to the
new environment that may ensue.
Big difference between THEN, and NOW. Species on Earth were at the mercy of climactic and global changes, without the benefit of intelligence and
technology. That is no longer the case...humans will survive, even if our numbers are devastated.
Four billion years have led us to this...remember, please, that advanced multi-cellular organisms have only arisen within the last few 100 million
years...and save for a chance meteoric strike 65 million years ago, we would not be here blogging about it!! (Maybe the Velociraptors would have
evolved intelligence...)???
