The real problem with human-caused global warming is that it makes it more expensive for us to live on this planet, what with a rising sea level, change weather patterns, increase energy use to combat the side-effects, death and injury due to global warming induced changes, etc. etc.

It was never about the planet or life on Earth. It's about us fouling our nest to a point where we just can't go on the way we used to.

Yes, the Earth will survive the worst we can currently dish out. We could wipe out all multicellular life on Earth and things would just anew from all the bacteria we spared. But human extinction is much, much easier to achieve and the fact the Earth as simply moved on is of little consolation to our burned out cities and dead civilization.

Environmentalism is not really about saving the Earth. It's about human self-preservation

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If there was any sapience in charge of evolution on this planet, why would they be so stupid as to let such risky species as ourselves emerge? Or maybe there is a sapience in charge but it's rather childish and just enjoys watching us screw ourselves over, like Sim City or Lovecraft.

But putting aside all the negativity for a moment, I'd really like to believe that we can fix this, that we can put our brains to it, do the hard work and figure out ways to go about our technological business without killing ourselves by temporarily reducing the planet to ecological diversity of a parking lot. Intelligence got us into these messes. Intelligence can get us out!

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