[Steve_Seattle]

"But I’m 59. I’ve seen it before. Young ones think it’s the end of the earth."

That's why everyone should read a book on natural history. Even though they should know better, people tend to think that the world's climate and geography were always just as they are now, and that any change spells catastrophe.

But the earth has seen vast changes, from continental drift, to ice ages, to the extinction of the dinosaurs. 10,000 years ago, the place I am sitting was under hundreds of feet of ice. A million years ago, it was tropical, three million years ago it was two hundred miles out in the Pacific Ocean. (I'm going from memory, so my time-frames might be off, but the fact of massive change is correct.)

[dfwgator]

And if worse comes to worse, we’ll have more arable land to grow crops.

[hal ogen]

So......since we are all going to die soon, nothing matters. Party ON! Do whatever you want because you will soon be dead. There are no consequences for whatever you do against anyone or anything. It is a LIB nirvana.

[steve86]

“ A million years ago, it was tropical, three million years ago it was two hundred miles out in the Pacific Ocean. (I’m going from memory, so my time-frames might be off, ”

I can barely remember five years ago, much less three million.