Fighting global warming… idiocy
There are two hot “global” topics still present in the news: global crisis and global warming. Although we know what caused the former one, there are only clues about the latter one.
I intentionally used word “clues” because there is no more than that. I read a newspaper a few weeks ago and there were 2 articles claiming completely opposite view on the future. One said there will be a global warming and polar capes will melt, while the other was saying we should prepare for another ice age as due to polar caps melting the sea currents will change causing Europe and Asia to freeze.
I think there are probably as many theories as the environmental scientists and nobody knows who is right, but many claim finding the right answer.
But after all the answer is not meaningful but the way we live and interact with the environment really is. So living more ecologically would definitely help us, but eventually the Earth too. But I’m really worried about this approach as unfortunately we are pretty dumb species…
On the other hand, as I found the topic interesting I started to read a lot about it on Wikipedia. There are many interesting articles about past ice ages, sea level rises, human migrations, etc, which in general tells a message – global warming is nothing special. Since 20000 years ago the global sea level rose about 140 meters, global temperatures rose about 5 Celcius degrees, humans decided to leave Africa and settle all around the world, etc. As you can see – the current global warming is nothing special. It happened before, and it is meant to happen in the future.
As always life will find a way. But what about us?
