Quote:
Originally Posted by Taylor95
I can't believe how many posts are on this topic. I'm all for being more efficient, though more for the economic sense of it and to better utilize our resources. Has anyone considered here that efforts to curb CO2 production are futile? Supposedly there has been 6 mass extinctions in earth's history, and multiple cycles of heating and cooling. I theorize that nothing humans do will change what the climate will ultimately do. According to one source, we are in an interglacial warm period. After some thousands of years, the earth will cool off again, which will cause many of its own problems for us.
|
Slight correction - we are in the midst of the sixth extinction - and it is accelerating.
We know the answers to your questions - we humans are warming the climate, by burning fossil fuels.
We know that WE are adding the carbon dioxide - so we can stop. Hardly futile.
We do not want run away warming, that is for sure. The earth is not going to be too cool - that is also a certainty.