What Needs to Be Done
Assigning blame
for climate change that will happen with or without human activity on
Earth constitutes a disingenuous discourse.
The climate changes, and nearly everything on Earth and beyond it effects that change.
From geological processes to biological evolution, to
changes in the sun’s output, to yes, even human activity – absolutely
everything has an impact on the climate for better or for worse.
The climate has been in a constant, linear state of change, long before human beings evolved, and even throughout the relatively short period of time humans have inhabited the Earth. This continuous change may have within it temporary cycles, but at no two points in Earth’s natural history has the climate been the same.
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| Image: Global warming in Antarctica, 65 millions years BC. |
65 million years ago, there were no ice caps. CO2 and temperatures were much higher than they are today, and Antarctica was covered with thriving temperate forests inhabited by dinosaurs. In an opposite and more recent extreme, our ancient ancestors struggled through a global ice age. Today, we live on a planet much warmer than inhabited by our cave-dwelling ancestors, but much cooler than anything the dinosaurs experienced.
Climate change happened, and is
happening now. And even with the complete negating of all human activity
on Earth, it will continue to change. This does not absolve humanity
from addressing its impact on the environment. Quite the contrary.
However it gives us a crucial imperative currently being ignored by
policy makers and activists alike.
All the carbon credits, electric
cars, and solar panels in the world will do nothing to prevent
potentially hazardous climate change, natural or man-made. Tinkering
with the climate through “geoengineering”
could result in a catastrophic extinction-event unlike anything
experienced in natural history. While human activity negatively
impacting the climate should be addressed, measures must be taken to
confront climate change that will come no matter what we do within the
current false discourse now taking place.What’s Suggested and Why it
Won’t Work