On Saturday, 19 October 2013 10:55:48 UTC+1, JNF wrote:
Hi ,does anybody here subscribe to the New Scientist?I don't buy the

magazine but noticed in a supermarket that its front page of today's date

mentions a lost volcano set off a mediaeval ice age.

I'm someone who believes Nature will cull the world's excessive population

and depletion of finite resources through pandemics, super volcanic

eruptions,famines or whatever as there is unlikely to be agreement with

certain religions and cultures to follow the Chinese example of suppressing

population growth .

Allegedly we have global warming courtesy 7 billion people--would a

Yellowstone eruption or similar be a good thing and cause global cooling

with crop failures etc?Discuss.

Ta ever so.

People always go on about humans ruining the planet . It ********.

The mass of human compared to the mass of the planet is akin to living like microbes on the back of an elephants arse, which just about sums up the physical scale of reality.

Again I nod to Bill Bryson book.

Look at a model globe of the planet and ponder that all the life that we know lives in the varnish.