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CW5 Jack Cardwell
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The climate has been changing since the planet was formed.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
MAJ Bryan Zeski
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And only in the last 200,000 years has the planet been supporting human-like life. For the other 4 billion year, it was inhospitable to our life. That's really not something we want to go back to, right?
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SFC Senior Geospatial Engineer
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Haha. I'm with George Carlin on this: "The planet isn't going anywhere... we are! We're going away. Pack your shit, folks.". Once caldera located in Yellowstone area goes(which it is overdue), we don't have to worry about any little insignificant thing we are doing right now. And don't get me wrong, I do my part by trying to consume less things with plastic, and I recycle quite a bit. I think one thing that will be very hard for American's is letting go of the quality of life that we have, because that WILL have to be sacrificed. But I enjoy electricity, internet, heat, AC, coke zeros, and having the ability to travel great distances to see the world, or the family much less. I don't want to give that up, and within my best power will not allow someone in a high position be a hypocrite enjoying those luxuries try to take it away from me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
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SGT (Join to see) I agree that the planet is not fragile. It's the life on this planet that's fragile - and that's all anyone is really talking about when we're talking about environmental issues.

The planet was formed from the expelled guts of supernova and was molten for tens of millions of years. Earth had no life for a billion years after its formation.

This article talks about how resilient the planet is, and using the space impact of the Vredefort Crater/Meteorite as evidence. It failed to mention that that impact killed off 96% of ALL life on the planet. Sure, the planet recovered, but life was dramatically changed.

The planet isn't fragile - but the life on it is - and the people on it are.
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