100 Years - That Long?
I give us 65 years before our world resembles that in the movie WALL-E.
I laugh at scientists who are developing means by which we can establish a sustainable colony on another planet. Heck we've had one here for more than 100,000 years and in the short span of 150 years we have we have severely altered earth's ability to sustain human life. Our demand for limited natural resources and the pressure we are putting on those renewable resources will only accelerate as the global population increases to a point where the current surface of the earth can no longer sustain human life.
Perhaps in 20 or 30 million years after plate tectonics reshapes the surface of the earth and regenerates a new environment, then we may see humans arise again. If fossil evidence were to remain of what we did to ourselves, the future humans may learn from our mistakes. We still haven't learned that lesson and we are running out of time.
The article mentioned that a journalist who stated the following with regard to the oil spill in the gulf:
"That ?horrifying? event may register as just a blip on the Earth?s radar.".
He is only half right. The whole human experience, some 150,000 years, is "just a blip on the Earth?s radar" with respect to the 4.5 billion year history of this planet. That translates to only 0.00333% of the history of the earth.
As long as we shout out "Save the Planet" we are in denial of the fact that the earth is not in danger. We are!
