Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   ah... but herein lies the REAL problem Date:   11/27/2018 11:16:20 AM

Actually, man can have a miniscule effect on the climate.  It’s just not CO₂.  Please recall the chlorofluorocarbon insult a couple of decades ago.  Any effect humans have on the climate will be unperceivable in the galactic span of geological time.  Like passing gas at the football stadium.

However, we have undoubtedly crapped our own bed… and we started from the moment God gave us opposable thumbs. 2.5% of all the water on Earth is freshwater.  Less that 1% of that is available on the surface.  There is NO surface water… fresh or salt… anywhere on Earth that does not contain impurities exuded by mankind and his activities… and a goodly percentage of groundwater too.   

Man has been able to rearrange molecules from the earth… both common and rare… into deadly substances which threaten not only himself… but, all other living things. 

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-09/documents/priority-pollutant-list-epa.pdf

In the face of our destruction of myriads of living species… ha ha… we’ll be one of the shortest lived of all species.  But first we will kill off all of the frogs.

http://www.ecology.com/2011/11/01/indicator-species-proud/

In the end, the time of humans will be a thin layer of plastic, glass, metal alloys, and strange chemical compounds.  Through the mechanisms of plate tectonics, even that will be erased in a few tens of millions of years.  Days will be longer, the earth will wobble even more, glaciers will come and go (diluting our polluted waters*)… and the sun will shine brightly in the sky.  Cockroaches will rule the earth.

- LMF Curmudgeon

* Environmental engineers and scientist always say... toungue in cheek... "Dilution is the solution." 

(But the S-curve of toxicity... is another lecture.)