The warming climate is a good thing. The aternative is cooling and that would be a real disaster for humanity. Warming oceans create more evaporation and that causes more precipitation, fresh water for crops and all life. Things change, including climate and we humans are not the primary cause for this warming. The sun goes through cycles that increase the amount of energy it makes and this cycle is consistant at 900 to 1000 years. From 1050 AD to 1200 the planet became warmer than it is today and this was before humanity used fossil fuels. England began growing grapes that produced so much high quality wine during this period that France outlawed the import of English wine because it undercut the French market. Nordic explorers dicovered Greenland and moved there to grow the crops they grew in Norway. When the warming period ended they could no longer grow these crops and changed to a sea food diet they learned from the newly arrived arctic people (Eskimos). These arctic people expanded their range during this warming oeriod and arrived after the Vikings. We are creating havoc by trying to fix something we have no control over.
We continue to unearth viking burials and artifacts so at one point the planet must have been warmer, before cooling down in the last few hundred years to bury the artifacts in snow/ice, and now it's warming again so they reappear. I think we can agree on that, and the natural cycling.
Whats less certain to me is how much man is accelerating that cycle. We can agree we are warming, but the rate we are warming seems to be the problem. That rate is the fastest its ever been if you can believe the chicken littles.
So I don't necessarily agree with your final statement. We can definitely ruin the environment with excess garbage, nuclear fallout and so on, theoretically its well within grasp that we mess up the planet irrevocably for centuries just by nuking eachother. I don't think it's that unrealistic to think we can cause massive damage by refusing to trim our emissions.
We're not trying to "fix something we have no control over", it's more about reducing the emissions/pollution caused by man, and we do have control over that. Not only do we have control over it, the planet WILL be better off without it. The planet doesn't need billions of people and millions of cars and all the mining and oil spills and on and on. But neither am I panicking, I think there is a middle ground.
Very hard to find the truth these days. After covid and all the misinformation (on both sides!) I just can't believe much anymore.
I have this strong desire to buy a 10 acre plot in the northwest territories somewhere, put a giant "KEEP OUT" sign on it, and bury my head in the sand.
