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RiverLover

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6. Does your view of "balance" face the fatal reality of fossil fuels impact?
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 06:35 AM
Nov 2014
If the carbon emissions from fossil fuels are allowed to continue to accumulate in the atmosphere, the science of what will happen sooner or later is relatively clear, even if its exact timetable remains in question:this world will be destabilized as will humanity (along with countless other species). We could, at the worst, essentially burn ourselves off Planet Earth. This would prove a passing event for the planet itself, but not for us, nor for any fragment of humanity that managed to survive in some degraded form, nor for the civilizations we’ve developed over thousands of years.

In other words, unlike “the news,” climate change and its potential devastations exist on a time scale not congenial either to media time or to the individual lifetimes of our short-lived species. Great devastations and die-offs have happened before. Give the planet a few million years and life of many sorts will regenerate and undoubtedly thrive. But possibly not us.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21618-ending-the-world-the-human-way-climate-change-as-the-anti-news#


I know we like to stick our heads in the sand, but this is serious. We are literally killing future generations & all life forms on the planet. Its not extreme to think so. Its reality

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