So I saw this in my newsfeed today: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/12/george-will-earth-doesn-t-care-what-is-done-to-it.html?gt1=43002
And it's infuriating. I hate when I come across news articles that say "climate change is bull." If you actually take the time to research the subject, you'd see that this is one of the few things that almost, if not all scientists agree upon. The oceans are acidifying because of the amount of CO2 that's dissolving in it from burning fossil fuels, and there's only so much that can be dissolved. The climate is on average getting warmer. Life on earth is going to shift rapidly, the human race along with it. A lot of our food resources come from the ocean. You change that dynamic at the lowest of levels, and it will be magnified beyond our worst nightmares. Think about what food comes from the ocean and the cultures that depend on it. You take that away from them, what's going to happen? Those cultures are the way they are for a reason. You can't take a rice patty marsh in Japan and turn it into farmland for cows.
The Earth doesn't care, I give them that. But we should. We're the ones that have to live on it. The Earth has been around for billions of years, and it will probably stand for a few billion more. But will we? Mother Nature corrects for imbalances that we humans impose on her. Don't take your home for granted.
It's projected that the global world average temperature will increase 5 degrees Celsius. That's 41 degrees Fahrenheit. We complain about it being hot now? I guess we'll see.
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