We are not always only trying to survive. We are more capable of insane behavior than any animal that has ever lived. Beavers don’t spend all day eating Cheetos while watching porn and playing Skyrim. Wolves don’t pick pack leaders based on which one can bark the loudest or which one promises to build a wall to keep…

Shaking us off like a bad case of fleas, indeed.

Reducing our carbon footprint is a necessity.

Go ahead, keep your head in the sand.

Go ahead and stick your head in the sand, but yeah, Al Gore represents what’s wrong with all of this and many, many people do care about that concept. Nobody says he’s a pope to anyone; what he does is represent the political power play and hypocrisy that’s rampant in all of this discussion. He doesn’t give a shit…

So you’ve read Tom Clancy.

200 years? Really?

200 years? Really?

I never said anything about scientists, funding, and money. I simply said “money”.

I never said anything about scientists, money, and funding. YOU leaped to that assumption.

You’re equating “what’s always been” with “normal”. And that’s not so.

I recognize your examples.

Humans have accelerated the rate of climate shift.

You want so badly to believe that whatever’s happening is inherently “bad”.

What’s that? Not “normal”?

Exactly. And it’s all part of the natural cycle.

My point is, humans are just another animal on the earth. And they don’t act in anything other than their individual, immediate, survival-based self-interest. IMMEDIATE. Go ahead and push that rope of trying to get individuals to sacrifice for the betterment of “the world”. In this day and age of immediate information…

You don’t need a disastrous, immediate event to bring about the end of the world. Sometimes you just need evolution to take its toll.

Mac guy since 1988 here.

My mind so badly wanted to read this headline, I had to do a double-take: