What if…
Just as a gedankenexperiment about people’s opinion about our (human) impact on the world. What if it was proven that global warming was due largely to the natural climatic cycles, and not so much on our own actions? That our actions had merely and slightly accelerated the process? Should we fight this “natural” global warming and the rise of oceanic levels to protect much of our civilization? Or should we just say “let nature take its course”?
I’m not saying that I believe global warming is a natural phenomenon, I do believe we are capable of having an impact of this magnitude on our environment. I would just like to know what environmentalists would defend if their life in the end was being challenged by nature, and not by ourselves.
A joke for geneticists
I was chatting with a geneticist friend of mine about acceptance of getting older, when this brilliant joke just popped into existence in my mind: “It’s not how old you are that counts, but how short your telomeres have become!”. I profusely apologize to everyone who either didn’t get the joke and/or didn’t find it funny.
