It's the end of the world as we know it

For environmental geeks, the Gaia Hypothesis.

I've been reading more about global warming - also read Roger Ebert's review of An Inconvenient Truth. As he says;

Gore says that although there is "100 percent agreement" among scientists, a database search of newspaper and magazine articles shows that 57 percent question the fact of global warming, while 43 percent support it. These figures are the result, he says, of a disinformation campaign started in the 1990s by the energy industries to "reposition global warming as a debate." It is the same strategy used for years by the defenders of tobacco. My father was a Luckys smoker who died of lung cancer in 1960, and 20 years later it was still "debatable" that there was a link between smoking and lung cancer. Now we are talking about the death of the future, starting in the lives of those now living.

When you consider that greed is the number one human failing, it's not hard to imagine the energy executives selling out the future of the entire species. They simply don't care.

Here's my take on this after doing as much research as I could. Mankind is more than likely doomed to annihilation within the next 100 years. Put ecology aside for a moment. Technology is one easy path to destruction.

Consider all these large computer systems with your personal information in them. Are they secure? No - the data will get out, it always does, and nothing you do will change that. If there is a profit to be made by the data getting out, it will.

Consider nuclear weapons. Are they secure? No - technology advances, it always does, and nothing you do will change that. If there is a profit to be made by the weapons proliferating, they will.

The end result will likely be massive nuclear annihilation.

Barring that, a scorching of the planet that renders it uninhabitable.

People just simply will not even consider the possibility of life ceasing to exist.. or they are conditioned to oppose "conspiracy theories" - as if the people in Hiroshima could never imagine a day when a mini-sun was dropped right on their heads.

It does seem to me that we're living in the pinnacle of human history.. the last moments before it all goes up in flames of one sort or another. I'm not having any kids that might have to face that, and I only hope it can be held off for a hundred years or so, so everyone I know is gone by then, including me.

We cannot remake the planet to suit us - the planet will remake us to suit it.