@Reagaknight,
Climate Change (the now used and more correct term) isn't caused by humans.
It is slightly exasperated by humans, for a number of reasons, and that
slight exasperation could bite us in the ass.
Basically, "human" life is very fragile, if it wasn't it would be on every other
planet surrounding us. The odds of the perfect balance the earth hit to be
able to support life at all (and sustain it, as we can see in Mars that maintaining
those conditions is just as precarious) and beyond that human life are
unbelievably remote.
If the system gets tilted too much in any way we're toast, and nature will go
on, rebound and readjust itself without us.
The people who harp on us "killing the planet" have it wrong. We're killing
the conditions that make it possible for us to live on the planet.
The combination of commercial over-fishing, for example, and the fact that
synthetic molecules like plastics, for which there is no naturally existing
force to breakdown into the original elements and which are in effect poisonous
to marine life, means that the oceans could be depleted of seafood by 2050.
The earth is a closed system. Water, for example, doesn't fall from space
onto the earth from a never ending showerhead. All of the water that ever
will and ever has existed on earth is constantly recycled, with reserves
existing at the polar caps. If the polar caps melt, as they are doing due to
climate change exasperated by humans, the balance gets thrown off. Less
Ice to cool the ocean flow, higher water temps, more events like hurricanes
and weather systems that produce tornadoes and other strong storms, and
the higher sea level that flood certain areas, and the higher the ground water
and underground water tables so more erosion of coastlines and the foundations
and understructures of cities.
The message of the "treehuggers" has been so misguided in a way that
the ensuing stigma is hard to get out of people's heads.
If you don't care if your children or grandchildren live in an increasingly
hostile natural environment, don't pay any of it any attention. If you do,
don't get your facts from Al Gore (I never have) but look into it on your own,
reach your own conclusions and do what you think you can to better things.
Is that unreasonable?
By the way, don't trust science from people who make money from what
they're telling you isn't harmful, be it cigarettes or chemical production.
