If the Earth's lifespan up until now is compared to a 24-hour day, the entire human existence is merely the last two seconds.
A saying goes something like this-
If everyone tells you to conform to the main stream, you're already on the right track. While I don't know how often this saying is correct, I've had a few unpopular opinions of my own. Among them is that global warming, man-made or otherwise, is beneficial overall.
With humans activities damaging our home planet, it's for the greater good if they'll eventually stop, or some drastic changes will take care of it. As a species we're short-sighted and selfish. As long as a temporary well-being can be maintained, we're willing to both actively and passively destroy the environment and lives in it, including ours. So who is to say that we don't deserve the consequences?
Being a little bit of a perfectionist, I'm prone to choose a darker solution. That doesn't mean we'll have to all go extinct, but it would take a significantly smaller population. The world is crowded as is. It's not equipped to accommodate these many. Humanitarian efforts hinder our progress as a whole. Feeding starving African children seems like a noble cause. But stamping the origins would help them sustain a self-efficient society. These would include but not exclusively involve:
- fixing corrupt governments that take charity money and deliberately keep its citizens hungry,
- deregulation-induced free trades,
- plans that will inform parents, who have no means to feed their children, make educated decisions,
- schools that provide basic skills as well as in financial survival.
It's no use crying over spilled milk.
However that's not to say the problem lies only at those areas. Developed countries, like the USA that consumes a large portion of the world's resources, should curb their appetite for consumption hence productions, despite where the actual assembly lines are at. With 20/20 hindsight, one can say a economy-wide voluntary effort is at best unlikely. The guys sitting in the throne, corporate or political, simply don't have the mental capacity to do the "right" thing.
OK, I'll help you take this leap of faith. Think of yourself as a gamer. You're playing a game of Simcity. In your created city there are poverty, rise of wars between nations and ideologies, lack of natural resources, major worldwide pollutions, corresponding climate changes, well, you think of the rest.
The surface is yet to be scratched. I for one would want to see the Planet doing what it does- regulates the elements to achieve equilibriums. Yeah I know I won't be there because I'll be long dead.
