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Originally Posted by jamesqf
The point is that there's an ongoing and fairly constant level of natural SO2 emission, which is part of the "Goldilocks effect" that keeps the present climate in its natural range.
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Please define "present" and "natural range." Present and natural range meaning what we have experienced in the last 50 years? 100 years? 200 years? Are we talking about about the natural range that includes winters so bitter that the Delaware River froze over and soldiers literally froze to death while marching. A range that includes the Sahara Desert's expansion over the last 10,000 + years? (predating modern fossil fuel use)
Millions of species on this planet have come into being and went extinct over the course of history, and most of those extinctions were the result of geological shifts and weather and atmospheric shifts. If the species is strong enough to adapt or evolve, then it (or its descendants) will live on.
How are those people who are (supposedly) in awe of nature and the environment so afraid of change? Change will happen whether we want it to or not, and I am not so arrogant as to think that I have control over it. Is what we (humans) are doing affecting the environment? For sure it is, but it is a result of how we were programmed/made/evolved (whatever your belief). We are going to reap the results as a species, and those who are strong enough will survive. Those who aren't will die. Stop putting humans on a pedestal. We are just animals and a small (albeit efficacious) piece of the Earth's greater ecosystem.