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If only we could save the polar bears, everything else would fall into place, right? So then humanity could go right on growing its population and expanding its economy, because the polar bears were saved; and when the next series of tornados rip your house apart, or the big river floods you out, or drought burns away your food crops, etc., remember the polar bears are OK (!)

Originally Posted by nrdthxpr

If only we could save the polar bears, everything else would fall into place, right? So then humanity could go right on growing its population and expanding its economy, because the polar bears were saved; and when the next series of tornados rip your house apart, or the big river floods you out, or drought burns away your food crops, etc., remember the polar bears are OK (!)

Yes, we will lose even more species before we can turn around AGW. This, of course, will take a 90% reduction in fossil fuel use within a decade, or will the reported tipping point reached of tundra methane self release be passed and thermageddon causes an 87% extinction "event'. Reducing emissions that much will require a complete moratorium on having kids for 20 years, and an increase in death rate for humans. Inducing the population to crash earlier rather than the mathematical certainty of mid-century, and changing over to completely green lifestyles and habits.
Business as usual, or insufficient serious action, and the population crashes mid-century, with AGW momentum taking the biosphere well past the tundra, then delayed to ocean methane deposits releasing to complete turnover and the extinction by 2300-3500. Followed by a recovery period similar to that after Eocene Max---200K years and 2 or 3 million years for complete recovery.
It is a hell of a thing that humanity has gotten to this drastic point when, if measures were started when we first knew back in the mid-1960s-early 1970s, it never would have got to this point.
http://www.cosmosmith.com/human_population_crisis.htm
http://www.yourmedievalfuture.com/?p=276#more-276
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...54944866_n.jpg
"If there is to be any hope of avoiding civilization-threatening climate disruption, the U.S. and other nations must act immediately and aggressively on an unprecedented scale. That means moving to emergency footing. War footing. "Hitler is on the march and our survival is at stake" footing. That simply won't be possible unless a critical mass of people are on board. It's not the kind of thing you can sneak in incrementally."

It is a struggle between instinct and intellect. Human beings are animals driven by their blind impulse to grow, kill and devour, today using advanced technology to devour the Earth while plotting to metastasize out into the Cosmic body, and so far, intellect has failed to persuade them to relent.

Originally Posted by nrdthxpr

It is a struggle between instinct and intellect. Human beings are animals driven by their blind impulse to grow, kill and devour, today using advanced technology to devour the Earth while plotting to metastasize out into the Cosmic body, and so far, intellect has failed to persuade them to relent.

Yea. Just because humans are more advanced than any other species doesn't mean that that is a good thing. Combine humanity's intellect with our selfishness along with our rampant population growth and we're going to destroy our planet long before we're capable of inhabiting another one.

So, perhaps the cosmic body will be saved from humanity's global cancer because we self-extinct before we really explore outer space like "Star Trek". They can't launch rockets from a dead planet. I express this idea in a poem at "If Saving the Earth" via Google.