Nestor_Kelebay
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Point well made.
We humans have always faced extinction from one threat or another. If it wasn't a different tribe wanting to bash our skulls in with rocks it was the Soviet bear wanting to bash our skulls in with nuclear tipped missiles. If it wasn't famine because the rains didn't come and the watering hole was dry, it was a plague that swept across the known world killing us in a matter of days. The constant threat of extinction is something we humans have grown accustomed to living with. Global warming and nuclear terrorism will just have to stand in line and take their turn at killing us off, just like all the other perils we've faced.
Iran developing nuclear weapons and the Gulf oil spill almost seem uplifting when viewed in that light.
We humans have always faced extinction from one threat or another. If it wasn't a different tribe wanting to bash our skulls in with rocks it was the Soviet bear wanting to bash our skulls in with nuclear tipped missiles. If it wasn't famine because the rains didn't come and the watering hole was dry, it was a plague that swept across the known world killing us in a matter of days. The constant threat of extinction is something we humans have grown accustomed to living with. Global warming and nuclear terrorism will just have to stand in line and take their turn at killing us off, just like all the other perils we've faced.
Iran developing nuclear weapons and the Gulf oil spill almost seem uplifting when viewed in that light.