IMVHO, Tim: Even if the climatologists' worst-case scenarios comes to be, the planet doesn't go beyond supporting human existence.
I have more worries about what humans can do to other humans in the wake of the climate change. When the location of land suitable for agriculture has shifted, and a significant part of "advanced" society's infrastructure is submerged in the big salty, humans will face a logistical problem, but not extinction. Jostein On 12/24/06, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you are both right Jostein and John. Mother earth as the planet will > most likely survive. But that won't do us any god. If we let all the > Cottmobiles loose (God forbid letting the man himself loose) she will > change. > There are a lot of signs that she is changing right now. Into something > beyond our existence. > > Merry Christmas ;-) > > > Tim > Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John > Francis > Sent: 23. desember 2006 21:54 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Doomsday is coming upon us? > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 09:06:33PM +0100, Jostein ?ksne wrote: > > I share your worries, Tim, but not the reasoning. :-) > > Mother earth will do well even with all the crap we can throw at her. > > With possible exception of a massive nuclear war, she has taken worse > > blows before and just brought new life forms into existence. > > I think you underestimate mother nature. The entire earth stockpile > of nuclear weapons looks insignificant when compared to the energy > in the storms of a major hurricane season. And the secondary effects > (dust in the atmosphere, etc.) pale besides the contributions of a > massive volcanic eruption. > > Then, of course, there's a massive meteor strike like the one that > is currently believed to have hastened the end of the dinosaurs; > that's thousands of times more devastating than anything we can do. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
