Climate-Change Summary and Update
Updated most recently, likely for the final time, 2 August 2016.
The Great Dying wiped out at least 90% of the species on Earth due to an abrupt rise in global-average temperature about 252 million years ago. The vast majority of complex life became extinct. Based on information from the most conservative sources available, Earth is headed for a similar or higher global-average temperature in the very near future. The recent and near-future rises in temperature are occurring and will occur at least an order of magnitude faster than the worst of all prior Mass Extinctions. Habitat for human animals is disappearing throughout the world, and abrupt climate change has barely begun. In the near future, habitat for Homo sapiens will be gone. Shortly thereafter, all humans will die.
There is no precedence in planetary history for events unfolding today. As a result, relying on…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Oh be still my beating black heart – the world will recover nicely.
Eventually.
And the beauty of it is, all we misanthropes have to do is sit back and watch, and pop popcorn. We’re doing it all to ourselves. But hopefully, once we’re all gone, what remains of the earth and its other life can recover. No species lasts on earth forever. Yippee!!!!
Watching the deserving humans go is one thing, but seeing the rest of life on Earth go isn’t easy….
I used to think there were innocent people – but now, I’m not so sure. We all hold ourselves as the superior species, we can’t stop warring against one another, we can’t stop fucking and breeding (and won’t) and we are disgusting gluttons when it comes to meat eating. I can’t stand to look at the Pacific garbage patch, or the amount of plastic in the insides of the truly innocent, the wildlife of the world. So I don’t know anymore….
There’s nothing wrong with making love with a willing partner, but there are ways to keep it from resulting in babies.
People don’t think about birth control, or not enough do. And many want as many children as possible. I don’t think we are programmed that way, because the rates of unplanned pregnancies don’t seem to change much over the decades – nearly 50%! Like any other creature on Earth, we are biologically programmed to reproduce. How much education about this stuff do people need? It’s the 21st century.
That’s why I don’t like using the all-inclusive “we”; I’ve used some form of birth control all my life and can’t imagine not thinking about the result if I hadn’t.
I use the all-inclusive we in ‘the majority’ sense, because there aren’t many who care, and most think they are the only species that matters on the planet.
I understand and I do that too for the same reason. ut being one of the few who care and not currently hating myself for being born human, it just doesn’t feel right to use “we” sometimes.” For example, 95% of humans eat meat, but not having fed on animal flesh for over 20 years, should I say “we” when talking about human’s carnivorous habits?