Plantagenet wrote:Ibon wrote:pstarr wrote:Climate change is a minor environmental threat, a media distraction
I have to respectfully disagree. Climate change is causing sea level rise that is already impacting coastal cities, as well as creating droughts and killer heat waves. What will happen as we see 10-15 feet of sea level rise and much hotter temperatures?
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The image of a flooded metropolis targets humanity. The salt marsh or mangrove bay just outside of metropolitan areas simply shift and extend inland with the rising sea level having minimal impact. Here again we see how climate change disproportionately affects kudzu apes. It is a major environmental threat to humanity.. Less of a threat to the complexity of natural ecosystems with some exceptions like coral reefs.
If climate change rises sea levels, displaces humans, curtails agriculture production in marginal areas etc. we will witness the beginning of the depopulation of our species on the planet. What happens when human landscapes and our crop land and pastureland recede? Nature recolonizes quickly this former human habitat.
The media attention of climate change has everything to do with how it will potentially imperil homo sapiens. Which it will disproportionately. There is something profoundly disingenuous when you see the media discuss climate change as imperiling our planet. What the media is really indirectly telling you, what many folks are actually indirectly stating is that climate change is a potential threat to our rapacious parasitic dominance on our mother earth. If climate change will weaken kudzu apes dominant position on the planet then we have to consider that from the perspective of the rest of life on the planet this may not be a bad deal.
You couple this with peak oil and all the other feedbacks, what Ghung refers to as a thousand cuts, and then you slowly recognize that those thousand cuts, those incisions, those blades of consequences, are targeting one species in particular. Unfortunately collateral damage in the rise of extinctions of other species cannot be avoided but the status of critically endangered species is not a future threat but an already profound reality largely ignored by the media. And it has nothing to do with climate change. Ever wonder at this glaring difference between the media's attention on climate change as a mere threat when the already devastating loss of biodiversity barely raises an eyebrow any more? Could it have something to do perhaps with the fact that climate change will disproportionately affect one species in particular? Which leads to the question that deserves highlighting
Could one then conclude that concern of climate change is simply the extension of the hubris that sees our place on the planet and our current life styles as sacrosanct? If you have the courage to recognize this then you have to conclude that concern for climate change is double speak for not wanting to alter in any way kudzu apes rapacious dominance on the planet.
Now that it is upon us let us take a moment to appreciate and embrace climate change as one of the corrective measures to lessen the lethal parasitic grip one species, homo sapiens, has on our mother earth. Let us embrace climate change as the ultimate change in the trajectory of our species away from severe overshoot and moving toward correction.
Many will read these words and interpret misanthropic sentiments. This could not be further from the truth. The collapse of the linear trend of 200 years of exponential growth of kudzu apes on the planet is exactly what will long term save our species, increase our species resiliency, and enable kudzu apes to redefine ourselves away from being a rogue parasite and once again become and integrated member of the community of life on our mother earth. That means that 75% of our numbers will disappear in the next couple of generations. For me the harrowing reality of what this means is equally balanced with the healing that will take place as flora and fauna will reclaim stolen habitat.
Patiently awaiting the pathogens. Our resiliency resembles an invasive weed. We are the Kudzu Ape
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