Originally Posted by
hunterboy
At the risk of stating the obvious, it seems to me that the global warming/climate change arguments seem to focus more on saving the planet, when I think they should be emphasising that we need to be saving ourselves. At the end of the day, the planet will adapt and survive, maybe over several million year period, and I’m sure some life will still exist; it just may not be us.
If you’re one of those people that believe the planet will do better without mankind on it, then I guess it is a win-win.
Alternatively, If you were an impartial bystander observing the process, I suppose it would be a difficult decision to decide whether to support the survival of mankind whilst killing off millions of other species, or just let us go extinct and keep the other species alive.
If we burn down the house with us in it we lose the house and our lives. If we burn down the house and run outside we have no house to live in.
It's better not to burn down the house in the first place.