I don’t want to sound cynical in an attempt to be skeptical; but I have a problem with our current panicked mindset about global warming.

Everyone is stating that it is happening.  Not that I don’t agree… but I like to see evidence, and often when that evidence is over my head or lacking I adopt a “wait and see” attitude.  Problem here is that we might not have time to wait, right?

More moderate people suggest that we humans may be altering our environment.

Social Critics, Professors, and liberals squabble about the human factor, and the cause of it.

Scientists try to test, and aggregate, and process data from experiments… trying to find trends in the information.

I think a lot of the time, humans miss the point.  All these panicky people talking about how we are “destroying/altering” our environment.

However, there are a couple questions not being asked here.

The first question isn’t “what causes global warming?” The first question is “would it have happened anyway?”

I am not so sure I am interested in the issue whether humans are involved in this, immediately.  It might have, it probably did…  But whether our passive, mindless industry so gluttonously tainted the air with carbon might be beside the point.

So what if humans are “speeding up” global warming? I mean… really.  How is that going to help anything?  It will help us better understand the reactions and interrelated causations, but it isn’t going to help us cope with what is happening, in the end.

I might like to know this, and I ask again….

Would it have happened anyway?  Was global warming happening, and would it have happened whether we sped it up or not?

The atmosphere, prior to humans, had changed multiple times…. in endless ways.  At first, hydrogen, water vapor, methane, carbon oxide.  As this planet aged, primarily nitrogen and sulfur dominated for epochs.  Then we came to free oxygen… and organic processes…

Prior to humans, many normal organic processes (even algae) had components to it’s processes that could have had altering effects on the environment.

The earth is alive, and changing constantly.

The answer is yes, I am concerned about global warming.  I am concerned about the altering environment.  I am concerned about what the impact is in all of this; both on the earth and human biosphere (the two are irrevocably linked, obviously).

But I am more concerned about whether it would have happened anyway?

Because if so, the issue isn’t solely whether we are changing the environment, or how fast.

It is that we need to figure out how to CONTROL the atmospheric situation.

I know it is in our nature to consume resources and simply move to the next resource.  On a small, migratory scale monkeys do this as do humans.  But as we advance and grow, we will wholly consume the planet, resultingly blast off to our next resource a la Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot.  It is posible in the meantime we want to find a way to stabilize and freeze our current biospheric status quo.

When we realize that we are part of this connected, interlocked series of organic processes, we will realize that we are simply part of an evolving planet and eco-system.  Then we may step back and realize the real problem isn’t if the environment is changing…. because looking at the global history of our atmosphere that is precisely what it does:  it changes, over time, supporting different lifeforms along the way.  The problem might actually be what can we do to stabilize the environment, and control it; not whether we have any impact on what is happening.

Therefore, I think it may be prudent to stop asking what is causing it as much as finding out whether it would have happened regardless of us in an everchanging biosphere.

If it has…. we need to focus *not* on stopping the climate change; but on how to manipulate our climate, control it, and manage it to meet *our* needs.

Frankly, it is funny that so many people are so massively adamant and consumed in protecting the earth…. I am one of them.

That is, I am one of them, after I dedicate my energy to preserving the human race.

This is not about whether our environment is changing.  It is about whether we will be able to maintain it in our future, and methodically manage it to meet our needs.

Stop talking about whether it is changing.  A geologic history lessen will tell you that is what the earth does.

I think it is time to start understanding the problem as deeply as possible.. including human factors, and then stop with the “stop global warming” nonsense, and figure out how to alter our course on the temporal highway from drive to neutral.

My new mantra, in place of “stop global warming” shall be “halt the course of our changing atmosphere by manipulating it to stabilize our ability to survive long term on this planet.”

Having this fit on a protest sign, however, will be a challenge.

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