Global Warming and Other Thoughts

From all I read and understand, global warming caused by human activity is real. Its happening and from what I can tell, is not only real, it is moving faster towards an inevitable extinction of most life on earth that most of us realize.

It seems I'm becoming more accepting of this, less concerned. I'm not sure why, maybe it is accepting the inevitable, like one who is experiencing terminal illness and has reached the stage of acceptance. It is difficult to imagine the end of human existence, with the earth becoming warmer until it is one hot desert incapable of supporting life. I think what makes it difficult, is that it is humans that are causing it, in light of Carl Sagan's attempts to enlighten humankind of the pale blue dot.

When I think about it when using more concrete reasoning, I think of this: First, one only needs to understand the Chicxulub Impact of the large meteor about 65 million years ago that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. That is, mother nature (which includes the cosmos) can do to the world whatever it wants, whenever it wants to. A second or contributing cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs were volcanic eruptions. Mother nature, with a comparatively "flick of the hand" can end it all with nary a flinch. My reasoning: we are just beginning to explore the pale blue dot, there will not be enough time, so accept reality.

Third, humankind might destroy itself first through nuclear weaponry, because our advancement at social thought ( ability to live together in harmony) is at least several thousand years behind technological thought. That is, we have developed the capability of splitting an atom, but we have not learned how to live together as a species. The pre-dark age mentality of terrorist with nuclear weapons is an example of this. Albert Einstein, when he realized the destructive capability of the nuclear bomb said, "my god, what have we done?" He knew.

So it really does not matter. It seems, we should take the unknown amount of time we have left, try as much as possible to turn around the human contribution to the shortening of life on earth and do all that we can just to explore the pale blue dot in relation to the universe and understand this: That this brief existence we have known has been great and just love one another with our lives, with liberty and in the spirit of that pursuit of happiness.