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Originally Posted by Robbie
They have a cool show on History Channel. I think it's called "Life After People"
And it goes forward in time to show what happens to all of our cities and pretty much everything that even hints of our existence over time.
Anyway, of course we have some "impact" on ourselves. What's the old saying: "Don't shit where you eat"
But looking at the much bigger picture...our species is a temporary thing and a tiny asterisk on the history of the Earth.
Even if we somehow don't all die from some kind of virus of plague...or nuke ourselves out of existence...I still don't see humans being here in a million years. Or even 100,000 years. Or even 10,000 more years. Do you?
Because if it were true and we were all heading to our doom...wouldn't the Govt.'s of the world IMMEDIATELY stop their military exploits? And wouldn't they IMMEDIATELY take all those tax dollars and put up solar panels on every home and business?
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Impact to ourselves? Well yes, but not just to ourselves. We have made a bunch of animals extinct and contrary we have made other specie's populations huge, most notably cows, chickens, pigs, etc. We have dried whole lakes, shaped landscape, for example the great plains of American widwest are now great fields of crop. We have huge impact on life on Earth. So I hope you were joking. And I am talking about the impact right now, not some hypothetical time after humans, right now, right here. Of course the impact lessens if there are no "we" anymore, just like sun won't warm if there is no sun, but there is sun right now so let's cut the bullshit.
Human beings lifetime as a population/specie (some sort anyway) is irrelevant for this talk, but I believe that we have good chance for living forever. Thanks to our skills to adapt.
About the human made climate change, whether it is warm, cold or whatever, isn't doom day and no good scientist has said so. I said "good scientist", because graduating from school and doing some research doesn't exclude you being total whacko. And even if it would be doom day, militaries wouldn't cease to exist.
Personally I don't even keep this human made climate change issue as the most important one. General pollution and negative effect to the ecosystem are the biggest threats for all life on Earth.