tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post4928129745413055949..comments2024-03-29T04:05:35.407-07:00Comments on We Live In A Political World: #115 / Fenner Or Faulkner?Gary A. Pattonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15049925834933920507noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post-29298102684046415912016-04-25T14:22:43.386-07:002016-04-25T14:22:43.386-07:00#haiku
Raw cynicism
unleavened by optimism
is unb...#haiku<br /><br />Raw cynicism<br />unleavened by optimism<br />is unbearableJohn Longvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701859978832890129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post-76696126651887621742016-04-24T09:59:04.968-07:002016-04-24T09:59:04.968-07:00 Of course, the reality will be neither human exti... Of course, the reality will be neither human extinction nor human proliferation and domination, but somewhere in between. Even a worst case scenario of climate change, even if it reaches that point, which I doubt, will not result in human extinction. Decline yes, perhaps severe, but some humans, as with some of all species, will remain. <br /><br /> The lessons of evolution are that life will continue in a changing climate and environment. Humans will continue, in some form of society, even in a world that briefly exceeds today’s temperature range, just as humans did in past fluctuating climates.<br /><br /> What we call civilization cannot continue in its present form much longer, due to human growth and consumption in a world of finite resources. But that is not human extinction. The decline of human consumption will open up new environments for plants and animals, including humans, who will live much more in harmony with natural cycles and resource fluctuations, of necessity.<br /><br /> A thousand years from now human population will have declined considerably, human technocratic infrastructure will be much less, likely based on scavenging on material remains of what we enjoy now. Humans will experience a slow decline, not a catastrophic apocalypse so enamored of Hollywood. Balance will be restored in a dynamic equilibrium with all life. Our present excess will be a tiny blip on the graph of life, left behind with all the juvenile toys of our maturing species.<br /><br /> Nature always bats last. Michael A. Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980105313542633114noreply@blogger.com