
They say that we are ruining the planet when we fail to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere. I disagree with that.
The only existential threat to planet Earth is an asteroid that is on track to obliterate Earth in around 6 billion years. It’s the human species that’s going to be in trouble.
Scientists tell us to expect big changes in our climate if we keep up the current rate of burning fossil fuels. Here in New England, we won’t get so much snow. Sea levels are already rising, and hurricanes arrive with much greater force than ever before. Species like polar bears, spotted owls and corals will disappear. People living in costal and low-lying lands will be flooded. Those folks living in the Southwest and Africa? They will experience longer-lasting droughts. And so on.
Assuming they don’t drown, succumb to respiratory diseases caused by increased pollution or from exotic insect-borne human and plant pathogens, or die in wars caused by people fleeing newly arid countries, etc., our grandchildren will not experience the same quality of life that he have today. Life for most will become shorter and more brutish.
Maybe dire predictions coming from hundreds of scientific publications are wrong, and everything will be fine. The odds are against that, but if you like those odds stick with the Republicans, and good luck. I will be gone when the worst of it hits the fan. But the planet will persist.
GARY SAMUELS
Deering
Read Again https://www.concordmonitor.com/The-fate-of-the-planet-21137362
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