| > I've seen conflicting data That's called the "wishful thinking" fallacy, to which you cling to confirm your previous "investment." If we'd look at your sources of the apparent "conflicting" data, we'd be able to see that they are intentionally biased, fabricated, cherry picked or whatever. But I would be surprised that you accept that fact, on average it doesn't function that way psychologically. Which is how humans work, but not a scientific argument. Anyway, the natural processes, unless cataclysmic, don't make such rapid changes that we experience now. The speed of the change is orders of magnitude faster now than the non-cataclysmic natural ones. It is really going to be worse than most can even imagine. Our children or grandchildren are going to hate us for not doing enough. The politicians and lobbyists who only see their own benefit will be dead and won't care. To compare with the "good old times": the study of human DNA shows that 70000 years ago, only 2000 humans survived one extinction event: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2975862.stm And then there was no civilization infrastructure to fail, just the hunter-gatherers, ready to move. |