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The only 'open question'? Unless
one is gifted with prophetic vision of one form or the other, one can only try
to guess the future from what is occurring in the present. There
are indeed indications about what may be coming down the road,
simply reading, watching and hearing
the daily news. There appear to be trends that even our experts increasingly
describe as inevitable and definitely disturbing.
We, through our governments, businesses,
and individual decisions large and small we have made each day, have already
led to changes of our climate, emptied our water tables, and polluted our
rivers, oceans and
the air we breath.
A running car a closed
garage will eventually asphyxiate and poison anyone in it. The finite
earth is just a larger garage. If human
activity were to continue on as is, so would everything alive in the earth
die.
There are at present several believable and possible scenarios how all life on earth could become extinct. Some are apparently new to history. As one example, we now have the human capability to literally split the earth apart using only one of fifty submarines that are navigating the oceans of the earth this very moment. Now, climate change caused by burning fossil hydrocarbons is ever more widely recognized, with increasing doubt catastrophic consequences can be avoided. The circumstances
that are already befalling us are not the work of God or super-natural retribution and punishment, but consequences of the choices
we have all made. Our common moral sense has informed us
all along that what we were doing could eventually have dire results.
It is not destiny or fate,
nothing predetermined, that is occurring, but the results, the
consequences of our human
choices.
The still open
question apparently is fast forming ... it is not if or how can these
dire events can be avoided, but how can some survive them? Any answers
and contributions to this topic are encouraged and will be published
here if you will please share
them with us.
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