Over the Global Warming Debate...

I’ve heard (and read) all the arguments that support (and argue against) the existence of a global warming crisis. Both sides make compelling statements and both sides have data to support their claims. But seriously... who cares? The reality is that we as human beings have a destructive nature and nuclear war will likely wipe out most of advanced civilization anyway. And what civilizations remain - probably tribal regions way down in the bush - will be our nod for keeping the global warming crisis in check. ;-)

If technological advancement doesn't wipe us out within the next 100 years well then we'll probably be embracing interstellar trips to other planets and discovering new natural resources and ways of harnessing our existing resources that change how we live in the future. But more likely than not the "advancement" of civilization will probably work it's way backward in time; back to the basics - all the result of nuclear war, a really really big metor that wipes out half the planet, or, E.T. comes..finds a democrat in the White House and kills us all. Point being - stressing change will be moot because life will bring it about anyway. Change is something you can't run away from – it’s going to happen and it’s the only thing you can count on - that includes planetary change.

As for extreme warming and cooling - it's all in the million/billion-years lifetime of our planet. Mother Earth has evolved through several cataclysmic climate shifts during it’s lifetime and it would be fair to assume that it will evolve through one or several more throughout the remainder of it's lifetime - with or without our help. With all the natural disasters (falling meteors and natural cataclysmic climate shifts) that have befallen this planet since it's inception (think, the ice age), increased fossil fuel emissions over the last 50 years won't register boo on the grand scale of things impacting it.

As for myself – I’d rather focus on the things the mean the most to me, my future kids/grandkids and to all of us in "this" lifetime: cancer, child abuse, illiteracy.. AIDS, war, starvation.. keeping a republican in the White House..

You know, the important things... ;-)

Let’s keep our eye on the ball shall we?