Replies to post #262295 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

Well said.

[shtsqsh]

"We need to make our peace with a universe that doesn't care what we do, and take pride in the fact that we care anyway."
~ Sean Carroll

He said it no better than you did, Maria. Thanks for your insight.

[DesertDrifter]

Well put. The ecological axiom for organisms of "Adapt, migrate, or die" does indeed include humans.

I think that any climactic disruptions will be within the ecological amplitude of humans and our tools, but as we have already arguably exceeded our long-term carrying capacity, the human toll will likely be huge. So the do-nothings are just ensuring that our future includes many of their descendants dying out as we adjust to the new environment. Quite a legacy they wish to leave, particularly since it may be preventable, at least to a partial degree, but the fossil fuel profits are just more important I guess.

[Norfolk]

Maria56, "Nature will save us? You mean, like it took care of the dinosaurs "for us"?"

Exactly. Could you imagine dinosaurs running around the streets of Chicago , New York , LA etc.

Put on your thinking cap and ask yourself who got rid of them and paved the way for us to survive?

JMO