This could have been said by all the folks who lived in transition times past. What appeared permanent wasn't. It only appeared so because the time scales are so large compared to the human lifetime - or that of a Galapagos tortoise. Nothing is permanent. Nothing ever has been. The cycles continue, driven primarily by cosmic scale changes. They will happen regardless of our desire to resist change. Do we (people) have some effect? Certainly! Did you breath in this morning? Breath out? But it's miniscule compared to the forces that govern events on a geologic scale. Di=oes this mean we should do nothing? Certainly not! What we do try to correct should be that over which we have a reasonable expectation that change will be produced for our benefit.
I say our benefit because even such cataclysmic "disasters" as the meteor that hit just off the Yucatan 65 million years ago weren't necessarily bad. Though disastrous to some species, it was an ultimate boon to others, like mammals! We probably owe our existence as a species, at least in some part, to this event. Regards, Bob... ------------------------------------------ Veritas vos Liberabit From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've been alive long enough to see the weather change in California, and it > appears to be a permanent change. I think only those that haven't been around > for a while, youngsters, who haven't seen the weather change, don't believe in > Global Warming.
