Reply #8: I like the earth the way it is... [View All]

[lapfog_1]

or rather, the way it was some 60 years ago or so... maybe 110 years ago.

That means a *lot* less "development" and a *lot* more forests and wild animals and coral reefs and fish in the ocean.

It was an earth that was very kind to the people that lived on it (though mother nature could and would kill you if you were unlucky or stupid).

It was an earth that could grow enough food to feed probably 3 billion people, and allow all of them some comforts and some leisure.

I do love our technology and our medicine, but I beginning to wonder if it's really worth it.

I want that planet back. With it's enormous biodiversity.

I don't give a rat's ass about natural cycles (except that we need to understand them completely). If a large asteroid is headed our way, I want us to stop it. If the climate is changing so that the oceans are too acidic for a wide variety of fish and plants to thrive and that will cause nation to war with nation over water and farm land, I want to stop that too. If we are causing it to change with our emissions of CO2, well, a great start to halting the change would be to eliminate CO2 emissions and start reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. But I don't care if we are to blame or not, if it's changing to be a climate less hospitable to us and our animal cousins, it's up to us to "fix it". Hubris, yeah, a bit. But I have that "survival of the species" gene that really wants our species to continue and to thrive.

Nature has given us a planet that allowed our species to survive and do well. Let's not make it worse for ourselves and, furthermore, lets not let nature make it worse for us either.