What a time to be alive and self-aware. Just at the start of the extinction of so many species including homo sapiens.
This planet took millions of years (from the Devonian period through the Mesozoic era into the Cenozoic era), to store plant and animal carbon underground permanently. This gave equilibrium to the atmosphere. Then along we came to dig it up and burn it in the twinkling of an eyelid geologically speaking.
Even when we know that this equilibrium is upset, we still use the three fossil fuels without thought for the future. ‘Progress and profit’ are our driving motivation not global care. If you think we are not responsible, just drive around Whitianga and see the billions of dollars invested in vehicles and boats by this society. Cement is made by burning coal – about a third of the volume of each. How many weather events and broken records do we need before we have to do something extreme?
Planting trees in the human’s existence time span will be enough to keep the air breathable, but that will not protect us from the continual heat build-up. Nature failed with dinosaurs. What excuse will it have when we are all gone?
