Seriously, how did mankind, and, supposedly, all the life that proceeded Mankind, survive, thrive, and evolve, what with all those periods where it was much hotter and much colder?
(Sydney Morning Herald) The Earth is warming so rapidly that unless humans can arrest the trend, we risk becoming ”extinct” as a species, a leading Australian health academic has warned.
Helen Berry, associate dean in the faculty of health at the University of Canberra, said while the Earth has been warmer and colder at different points in the planet’s history, the rate of change has never been as fast as it is today.
”What is remarkable, and alarming, is the speed of the change since the 1970s, when we started burning a lot of fossil fuels in a massive way,” she said. ”We can’t possibly evolve to match this rate [of warming] and, unless we get control of it, it will mean our extinction eventually.”
Let’s see that rapid warming
Doom or something. Say, I wonder if Ms. Berry has given up all uses of fossil fuels.
