We live in a weird Topsy-turvey world... Imagine trying to explain this to somebody from another planet! We are odd prideful, vapid, rather slow witted creatures apparently.
I have pointed this out to others as a sample of the insanity. We all go through school and learn about the history of the earth in "Earth Science" class. We learn about plate tectonics, the different periods, epochs, etc. We learn about the ice ages and glaciers. We know of heating and cooling. We learn that carbon is the most abundant element. We learn that plants need and like COs. We learn that CO2 is largely the result of decaying biodegradables....dead life. We learn that the earth goes through climate cycles and habitats are in a constant state of flux.
Then one day, some scientists and the media come out and say, forget all that. The earth's climate is stable and predictable except for the destructive nature of humans in the last 100 years. Because man invented the engine, the planet is doomed and humans are going to bring about our own destruction.
Huh? Really? CO2 huh? You mean that gas that all plants need and that all creatures alive and dead expel? That one? CO2 is going to be the end of the world as we know it?
We live in a weird Topsy-turvey world... Imagine trying to explain this to somebody from another planet! We are odd prideful, vapid, rather slow witted creatures apparently.
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I think someone once said that the human brain represents the only known example of an organism evolving a working organ which it does not know how to use. The more I reflect on that the more sense it makes 80)