"Will Hand" wrote in message
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"paulus" wrote in message
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Modern man has never experienced a catastrophe of global proportions. One
will come along soon enough and it won't be anything to do with the level
of
CO2 in the atmosphere.


Any idea what?

Disease and pestillence are front runners, brought about by overpopulation
that will eventually cause a vital component of our ecosphere to collapse.
Man has
flourished since the end of the last ice age. Warmer climate is good for us.
I see no reason that we would not return to entirely natural ce age
conditions at
some time in the future.


Besides if CO2 was so toxic we'd do something about the destruction of
the
rain forests. I wonder what proportion of the increase in atmospheric CO2
in
the last 100 years can be attributed to deforestation activity??


I heard a figure the other day of circa 25%. Apparently deforestation is a
major
contributor. To me it is not the CO2 increase that is so sad, it is the
removal
of animal's homes.

I hadn't seen a figure but I'm not surprised by 25%. It saddens me to think
of the habitats that have been and are continuing to be destroyed. I read
that until the middle ages much of the British Isles was covered in dense
forests. Imagine how beautiful the now barren landscape would have looked
back then.


It is so very easy to get carried away with our cosey cosseted lifestyle,
we
are completely isolated from the reality of our irrelevance in the grand
scheme of things.

I'm sure I said this before and I'm sure it is very unpalatable to most
people, but, whether it is self inflicted or apparently undeserved, it
will
take a catastrophe to rid the world of this human infestation.


I don't see us as an infestation, I see us as part of this planet's
evolution.

Indeed we are, but nothing more than just a phase that the earth is going
through :-)
We don't have the resilliance to withstand too much discomfort when the
going gets tough. At leat not at the population level we have now.


Go outside on a clear dark night. Look up at the stars and ask your self
"will we really be missed?"


Missed by whom or what?

Exactly!!!


We are a part of the Universe and I am sure we have a valued place in the
great
scheme of things. I look up at the stars and I feel a sense of belonging
as well
as awe.

I wish that I believed that there was a big diary being kept somewhere and
that
a record of our time here was recorded. Then I could say that we added value
to the grand plan - that some other being could learn from us. Alas, I think
that
when we are gone we are gone! We don't even get on the score sheet.

Paulus