What if global warming is good for humankind in the long run?
We often say that we should learn from our mistakes. It’s best to learn from others’ mistakes. Still, I’m afraid we have no alternative with human civilization, and we must learn from our mistakes. What if the destruction of one’s living environment, e.g., the planet as we know it today, is somehow inscribed in the development (collapse?) of intelligent civilization? Perhaps we must first unconsciously destroy what we have to appreciate and start caring for it? Maybe global warming and its effects, in the short term, will eliminate not only us but all other Earth’s species?
I am saying here that if the pessimistic global warming scenarios turn out to be accurate, we will indeed face an absolute catastrophe. But what if, to survive as a species and save the planet as a living organism in the long term (I mean tens of thousands of years), we must bring it to the brink of destruction so that in a long time, e.g., millions of years, it will be reborn, maybe without us?
The fact is, the Earth has experienced a total of five major (and many more, minor) mass extinctions.
The largest of these happened 252 million years ago. Scientific estimates show that 95% of all marine animal species became extinct. Of course, the cause of this extinction was not human. They were probably unimaginable volcanic and lava eruptions. In the long term, global warming appeared. What if, in a fantastic way for us, human-induced global warming, e.g., the devastation of the living environment by organisms that inhabit a given planet, is somehow inscribed in the Earth’s life cycle? Or has the universe already witnessed similar scenarios in other galaxies over billions of years?
Of course, everything I write here, on the www.adammazek.com website, does not absolve us from the responsibility to care for the Earth.
Still, perhaps mass extinction due to the activities of organisms living on the planet is an indispensable element of the planets’ life cycle. Maybe this is why we have not met alien life forms outside our world. That’s why, perhaps, we will never meet them. It won’t happen because they have destroyed themselves. They did not give themselves a chance to develop adequately to make interstellar travel. Is such interstellar travel possible? I believe that scientifically it is possible, with an appropriate level of science development. Will we get to that level, or will we destroy ourselves sooner to let the Earth be reborn again? I know everything I’m writing sounds like science-fiction text, but I like to rock in the clouds.
