"Suddenly" can mean thousands of years, or tens of thousands of years respective to the planet's lifetime..
...but my point was that it can also mean 10 years...or a year. Dinosaurs' footprints were left in wet sand that dried up so "suddenly" that they fossilized and became the subject of paleontologists interest. Several civilizations prospered to the point of excess many times in human history (like the examples I gave), only to fall within less than a generation's time...
I get your point completely...but these things wear on me because I know enough about how climate change works to cringe when I look across fields that, at this time of year, should be a sea of green...but all I see are withered stumps of grassy looking death.
Will it happen now? Probably not...but history proves that it could...and that make the hair on my neck stand up.
True, but mud the size of a dinosaur footprint can be acted on more quickly than the climate of an entire planet.
Climate change is like an ocean liner where, even when the engines are put into full reverse, it sails on for four miles before stopping, never mind reversing.
Is it normal that the Midwest is turning into a desert?
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"Suddenly" can mean thousands of years, or tens of thousands of years respective to the planet's lifetime..
...but my point was that it can also mean 10 years...or a year. Dinosaurs' footprints were left in wet sand that dried up so "suddenly" that they fossilized and became the subject of paleontologists interest. Several civilizations prospered to the point of excess many times in human history (like the examples I gave), only to fall within less than a generation's time...
I get your point completely...but these things wear on me because I know enough about how climate change works to cringe when I look across fields that, at this time of year, should be a sea of green...but all I see are withered stumps of grassy looking death.
Will it happen now? Probably not...but history proves that it could...and that make the hair on my neck stand up.
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True, but mud the size of a dinosaur footprint can be acted on more quickly than the climate of an entire planet.
Climate change is like an ocean liner where, even when the engines are put into full reverse, it sails on for four miles before stopping, never mind reversing.