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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (250964)5/25/2014 12:09:48 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 541348
 

And I console myself with this- even if things ARE as bad as the worst case scenario, the Earth abides. It will do fine with or without us.

The earth recovered from Snowball Earth (cf en.wikipedia.org ), it will recover from high levels of CO2. Especially since, as some of the deniers have pointed out, we are due for another Ice Age in a few thousand years due to Milankovitch cylces, which should tend to cool things off:
en.wikipedia.org

Of course, that theory has several variations, so the cooling off may be beginning now or imminently, or maybe in the next 10k years or maybe not for another 50k years. And maybe it will postponed for even longer due to increased GGs in the atmosphere, who knows.

But life is tough and resourceful, especially when abetted by intelligence. It even exists at the bottom of oceans where there is no sunlight. Humans will figure out how to survive even in inhospitable environments. It may not be especially pleasant, but the challenge will exercise our ingenuity and cooperative instincts.
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