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To: Brumar89 who wrote (52994)5/31/2014 11:21:19 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 86356
 
"greens say human activity is unnatural "

No, they don't. You have them confused with the Stop Recreational Sex folks.

"greens say human activity is ... harmful."

More accurately, that the current waste products of our activity are harmful, and we need to find a way to continue the activity without producing the waste... IOW, use clean energy instead of fossil power.

We're but big yeasties living on a petri dish.

Bacteriapocalypse

a billion years of bacterial evolutionary progress was soon stunted by a catastrophic global event.
paleoclimatologists have good reason to believe that this world-changing event was unwittingly caused by some of the planet's own humble residents: bacteria.

The period in history is known as the Paleoproterozoic era,
damninteresting.com

'Great Dying Mass Extinction' 252 Million Years Ago Caused by Climate Change Microbes
ibtimes.co.uk

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Maybe big dumb yeasties living on a petri dish.

“My great fear is that we’ve in fact been visited by intelligent aliens, but they chose not to make contact, on the conclusion that there’s no sign of intelligent life on Earth. How’s that for measures of intelligence?”
Neil DeGrasse Tyson