Reply #16: The reality [View All]

[Baby Snooks]

Nothing we do at this point can stop what is already happening. It took over a century of increasing pollution to bring us here. It would take us over a century to undo it. If we could. Nature balances itself. But over thousands of years and sometimes millions of years.

The reality is too many see only advantage in the opening of the Arctic each summer. All they see is the oil and gas which lies beneath. Not what a shrinking icecap represents in addition to shrinking glaciers and shifting icesheets in both Greenland and Antarctica.

There may be a natural cycle involved. If so, that may only guarantee the end of civilization as we know it. The coming summers may indicate how bad it will be. As sea levels rise. Either insignificantly. Or very significantly. There probably will be no "middle ground" in this.

"Already, according to Randall and Schwartz, the planet is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that could soon be repeated."

That is the reality. Although what they are not considering are the oil wars. Which may turn into nuclear wars.

All the oil companies see is the increasing demand in India and China. And enormous profit. And so they blind themselves to the reality of what is coming. As do we.