Here's Why We Should Be Concerned About The Earth

Here's the thing: even if we are just in an interglacial warming period, shouldn't we be doing the best that we can to mitigate our human impact thereon? I mean, it's a delicate system that hasn't had long enough to adapt to our outsized effect on it, and if we just blythely assume that there's nothing we can do about warming, and extrapolate that into the idea that it's not our fault, we run the risk of cannonballing what's maybe a natural trend, turning the curve way up, and making our planet into Venus and killing us all off. Sure, the world will still be here, and maybe the massive heatdeath will balance out millions of years later, but nothing even remotely like our world will remain, and it will be our fault.

Here's where I stand on the issue: if there's anything we can do to avoid that, we should do it. Regardless of whether it's a losing battle, whether we caused it or we're just victims of it, whether we're really got a chance or not, we should do it. If we do nothing, it's like standing by while someone gets raped or killed, but if we DO something, even if we all die anyway, at least we tried, at least we did everything we could, at least we learned and fought and acted and improved our chances and won a few generations and DID SOMETHING. It's what humans do: we act. We change what we can. We do everything we can to increase our evolutionary chances of survival. We behave in a humane manner. And even if we can't save the Earth, maybe we can find a way to terraform other planets, or to build bubble-colonies on the moon, unerwater, on the land that's gone, but will be safe inside, and maybe we won't all die off, leaving the universe alone. If we really are the only life in the whole universe, it's our responsibility to keep it going, to colonize new worlds, to breed and create new species, to adapt and spread and green up everything. This one planet is too precarious, too easily damaged-- like all those single-valley ecosystems scientists keep finding by destroying them.

Living green isn't just a choice: it's the only choice. There needs to be something for our decendants-- for everyone and everything's descendents. We're the only life there is. We have no right to let it die, and even less right to go and kill it off ourselves.