Human beings are the most adaptable species planet Earth has yet seen. We managed to live, pre-technology, in the world’s harshest climates, from the polar islands to the Saharan desert and everything in between.
Some people live on boats most of their lives, some follow their herds, some farm, some fish, some kill sea mammals for food, some eat worms on purpose. You name it, humans have figured out how to cope with it, and survive.
About the only environments no early peoples managed to call home were active volcanic craters, the polar ice caps, and mid-ocean. Did plenty of us die along the way? No question, they did. Yet as a species we thrive.
Now people tell us the climate is changing, like that was something new. It isn’t. It has always been variable, without human assistance. Is it changing faster? Maybe, nobody knows for certain.
Is climate change a threat to individual humans? Certainly, it always has been. Is it a threat to the species? Unlikely.
Should we worry about it? Feel free to both worry and make preparations for your family’s survival. Is it likely we, as a species, will do anything to slow the pace or alter the direction of climate change? Almost certainly not.
If you need to worry about threats to our species’ survival, worry about plunging birth rates. It turns out that given control over conception, humans choose not to reproduce in adequate numbers to keep the species viable. We need a technological solution for that technology-caused problem - robot nannies could work.
