11-13-2017, 01:43 PM
quote:Yep, but as so often happens with tenacious organisms they get beat back, but not totally destroyed, and live again practically undetected until their numbers become so great that they are hard to miss. Again and again.
Originally posted by Kapoho Joe
The Earth is sick and humanity is the virus. The host has developed a fever that will get higher and higher until the parasite dies.
At this point with folks in general being unable to confront and talk rationally about it one does wonder if we have to hit the wall rather than use our knowledge to temper the crash. Paul is right, science is our savior, but only if we embrace it. And, as it is today nobody is willing to, at least not more that to pay it lip service. Certainly the Paris Accord is nowhere near enough to address what science says is coming our way. But we can't even agree to that. What with the elephant in the room preaching #FakeNews! as its excuse to continue with its rape and pillaging of the Earth, we very well may go splat against that wall.
And still some of us would like to see a future in which our children and theirs do not need to suffer as some predict is the fate of those that follow us. We'd rather take responsibility and temper ourselves so as to set in motion a path to better days. In other words buy the time so that Paul's god can save us. But with the current political climate of hate and bigotry dominating the discussion there's nothing one can hope for except the worst that science suggests is coming our way. At least as long as there is over 100 million people (conservative estimate of the amount of folks that believe in Trump) who still deny that we even have a problem.