Global Warming, A Thought
The global climate has warmed (hence forests under what are now ice sheets) and cooled (hence ice sheets over what were forests) several times without any notable interference from man. It can be presumed that other things such as solar activity, water currents in the oceans, and volcanic activity were the primary agents of that change. It could be that impact with extraterrestial bodies also had an influence on such climate changes. We're still puzzling that out.
I should note that I'll be making a couple of assumptions for the purpose of expounding on my thought. The first is that the global climate is actually warming not just changing dependent on region. The second is that man still has relatively little impact (which is more demonstrable based on the examples of "catastrophic" climate change previously noted).
So, assuming that we are undergoing climate warming and we can't "fix" it, why are we wasting time and resources trying to fix it and thus enriching (in the short term) corporations or empowering (again, in the short term) individuals who are selling us their fix? Why are we not producing adaptive technologies such as wheat that will grow in drier, hotter climates or housing that will protect us from heat without using massive amounts of energy or the means to recycle water endlessly on a massive scale for millions of people? Is it perhaps because most politicians, media types and energy companies care only for their short term condition? Just thinking...
Labels: Culture, GlobalClimateChange
