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AverageJoe90

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9. To be honest.....
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 06:31 AM
Jan 2013

There are indeed some valid concerns for the well-being of civilization, and challenges we'll have to be facing in the next century or so thanks to climate change, resource issues, deforestation, etc., but I have also come to about the same conclusion as you have: Even though humanity is still facing challenges, and probably will have to from time to time until we either finally do peter out sometime in the far future(more than likely, giving way to new species of humans!), or the universe collapses, we've also survived plenty of catastrophes, quite a few of them worse than global warming, and maybe one or two that may have even been about as bad as, or worse than, full-scale nuclear war....(like Toba, or the comet strikes of 14-16k years ago, including those that might have created the Hudson Bay in Canada.).

To be honest, it's kinda frustrating to deal with at times, and more than a little on some subjects, but I do try to understand where these guys and gals are coming from....even if I don't always succeed at first.

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