THIS is truth: Everything that happens on this planet is temporary.
What was the weather 500 years ago? 5,000 years ago? Or 20,000 years ago, when sea levels were so low that the Florida peninsula was more than TWICE as big as it is now? Sgt Hooper, that was only 20,000 years ago, before humans were around to anguish over rising sea levels covering more than half of the Florida peninsula with water.
We are mold on a cheeseball on this planet, and God is our host. We are along for the ride. We don't control the climate -- it controls us.
125,000 years ago, sea levels were so HIGH that the Florida peninsula was only half the size it is now; you can even see traces of the old coastline today. But that was 125,000 years ago, l-o-o-o-o-ng before humans could gnash their teeth and drive themselves crazy over the receding waters "endangering" so much wetland.
There is zero status quo in nature; there is nothing to "revert" to. Nature operates with zero, zilch, big fat donut hole, regard to man; we're just another critter in the system with as much potential to alter things that won't mean a hill of beans 50,000 years from now.
“What was the weather 500 years ago? 5,000 years ago? Or 20,000 years ago, when sea levels were so low that the Florida peninsula was more than TWICE as big as it is now? Sgt Hooper, that was only 20,000 years ago, before humans were around to anguish over rising sea levels covering more than half of the Florida peninsula with water.”
Why are you taking this away from the context of cattle grazing? Take those cattle of the grazing land now, and I am willing to bet the land will revert back to what it was BEFORE the cattle were introduced, within 30 years, or less. And if you think the weather will change that radically in that timeframe, and in that domain you are wrong.
“We are mold on a cheeseball on this planet, and God is our host. We are along for the ride.”
Agree.
“We don’t control the climate — it controls us.”
Duh, really?
“125,000 years ago, sea levels were so HIGH that the Florida peninsula was only half the size it is now; you can even see traces of the old coastline today. But that was 125,000 years ago, l-o-o-o-o-ng before humans could gnash their teeth and drive themselves crazy over the receding waters “endangering” so much wetland.”
Again, waaaaay out of the cattle grazing context.
“There is zero status quo in nature; there is nothing to “revert” to.”
Really, for those that live in the country, stop mowing the yard, stop maintenance and upkeep, stop everything, and see how long it take for mother nature to wipe out any semblance of prior human habitation on that land. We are not talking thousands of years but decades.
As I indicated prior, reversion is to some prior point due in large part to the weather all other things being equal. Reversion occurs whether you care to admit or not. That is the truth.
“Nature operates with zero, zilch, big fat donut hole, regard to man; we’re just another critter in the system with as much potential to alter things that won’t mean a hill of beans 50,000 years from now.”
Keep it in the cattle grazing context, which term is significantly less (by factors) than 50,000 years.