On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 14:35 +1000, Roger Clarke wrote:
> > Otherwise, as Tom Lehrer sang in another contest, we'll {all} go
> > together when we go...
> Or just the cockroaches, the salamanders, horseshoe crabs, hydras,
> and the bacteria in the flumes of underwater volcanoes.I have a different opinion on that. I think humans are essentially invulnerable now, to all except sudden planet-killer catastrophes. Global warming is not such a thing, because it happens too slowly, and while it will cause biological upheaval, it really won't do the planet much harm. We are intelligent, tool-using cockroaches (or maybe rats). There is (almost) no earthly environment we cannot survive - either indefinitely or long enough to escape it - given air to breath and water to drink. We are quite difficult to kill randomly and astonishingly difficult to kill en masse. https://imgur.com/gallery/309O7tJ It may not be humanity as we know it. Lives may well be "nasty, brutish and short", but humans will survive whatever comes. And of course over enough time, evolution will do its thing too. Maybe we'll do better next time. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([email protected]) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
