This is all delightful and entertaining! Controversial as well. I know I shouldn't touch it but it's hard to not touch a hot stove especially when I've been told not to!
Let me be honest. Many years ago I came to that old Q forum to learn something. Then I got bold enough to offer my perceived knowledge about some habitat and deer things, subjects that have consumed me for several decades. The next step in my evolution was the decision to use the forums to hone my writing. Feed back is nearly instant - and (mostly) honest. I learned a lot from reading and responding to your experiences.
But the 'debates' about science and politics and the other non-habitat subjects horrifies me, or it did at first. However, like with the other posts I've learned a lot - enough to make me think more deeply about things I probably never would have without you! I feel your distrust in institutions but you cannot paint all the same way. Within them there are the many pushes and pulls found everywhere. I/we can only hope the results are beneficial to us all. Politics is a mess and always has been, maybe more so today than ever? I like Donald Trump for his boldness, but I dispise him for his style and personality. As president his execution was suspect. He scares me. I liked Joe Biden but he's approaching senility. He scares me! Today the House of Representatives is leaderless. Surely, in my opinion, we must demand better candidates. Then make your choices as you will.
So, this post is about climate change. I have a number of random thoughts.
There's a real lack of understanding about science. Science never proves anything. It just fails to disprove the alternative theory(ies). So, man's contribution to an every changing climate is and always will be up in the air - but there's enough evidence to make the probability, never ever 100%, we have influenced it true.
The question then is...should we or can we do something to mitigate our contribution? Why? Because the speed of the change is worrisome.
Change come hard. Adaptability is slow. It's like bankruptcy. You go bankrupt two ways, gradually and then suddenly! It doesn't matter what happened thousands or millions of years ago. Ask the dinosaurs how they felt about climate change. To cut to the bottom line, yes lives are involved, but it's the economy at risk. Close to me, Norfolk, VA is about to go underwater. Multiply that, hypothetically, a couple thousands of times and figure out the economic impact. And if you live in fly-over country you might think it won't impact you but deflation hits everyone. It's just something to think about.
Like always I've gone on too long. I probably don't read the Bible as some of you do. But I do read it and believe the teachings of Jesus Christ are pertinent to all.
As you post remember this:
Matthew 22:37-40
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.