Very refreshing to read the opinion of climate change. YES, the world has endured many climate changes over the 4.5 billion years of existence. Yes, we have accelerated it and yes the world will be fine.
And no we probably won't be.
Time to accept and move forward. Thanks for your words Anya.
I don't disagree with what you've said, but I find that when discussing outcomes of climate change there's often this world-versus-humanity binary presented where the likely outcome is something to the effect of "the world will survive, but humanity won't".
But we should ask ourselves, will the world actually be fine? What is the "world", exactly? Just because *something* will continue to exist when we eventually ruin ourselves, what will it be like? How many species will we have taken down with us? How many ecosystems will we have reduced to a scrap of their former complexity? In Eastern Australia, what was once the country's largest subtropical rainforest, the "Big Scrub", is now 1% of its original size due to European settlers. This "world" will not remain when we are gone. Maybe there is not one world to remain after we have left, but multiple worlds that will not.
Thank you for this perspective, one that has not been loud enough in the narrative of this and other disasters of our time. I work in healthcare, the neonatal intensive care unit specifically. I'm reminded of something I think about a dozen times over the course of a week at my job, and that I find relevant in all this too - just because we can doesn't mean we should. We live with so little reverence for land, life and death; we foolishly, almost comically, think we can make it all submit to our whims (often in the name of doing "the right thing"). You're right, a wake up is sorely needed.
"It's all your fault!" Says the abusive parent. "You should have known better than to trust me. Now hang your head in shame, and if I hurt you again,you brought it on yourself.". Who created the system? Who is responsible for it?
Not really sure who you are calling the abusive parent in this situation, but I do think humans are by and large in an abusive relationship with the society they live in, which was of course created by humans, in conjunction with a myriad of other complex and amorphous entities like environment, currency, belief, etc.
Very refreshing to read the opinion of climate change. YES, the world has endured many climate changes over the 4.5 billion years of existence. Yes, we have accelerated it and yes the world will be fine.
And no we probably won't be.
Time to accept and move forward. Thanks for your words Anya.
Yep, exactly.
I don't disagree with what you've said, but I find that when discussing outcomes of climate change there's often this world-versus-humanity binary presented where the likely outcome is something to the effect of "the world will survive, but humanity won't".
But we should ask ourselves, will the world actually be fine? What is the "world", exactly? Just because *something* will continue to exist when we eventually ruin ourselves, what will it be like? How many species will we have taken down with us? How many ecosystems will we have reduced to a scrap of their former complexity? In Eastern Australia, what was once the country's largest subtropical rainforest, the "Big Scrub", is now 1% of its original size due to European settlers. This "world" will not remain when we are gone. Maybe there is not one world to remain after we have left, but multiple worlds that will not.
Thank you for this perspective, one that has not been loud enough in the narrative of this and other disasters of our time. I work in healthcare, the neonatal intensive care unit specifically. I'm reminded of something I think about a dozen times over the course of a week at my job, and that I find relevant in all this too - just because we can doesn't mean we should. We live with so little reverence for land, life and death; we foolishly, almost comically, think we can make it all submit to our whims (often in the name of doing "the right thing"). You're right, a wake up is sorely needed.
One million percent.
Bravo - burn it all down, blow it all up. The system we have created is our downfall and our biggest blind spot.
Thank you for pointing to the elephant in the room that no one wants to see or claim.
"It's all your fault!" Says the abusive parent. "You should have known better than to trust me. Now hang your head in shame, and if I hurt you again,you brought it on yourself.". Who created the system? Who is responsible for it?
Not really sure who you are calling the abusive parent in this situation, but I do think humans are by and large in an abusive relationship with the society they live in, which was of course created by humans, in conjunction with a myriad of other complex and amorphous entities like environment, currency, belief, etc.