You know what is also irrelevant when you compare it to the history of the earth? Humans.
I know, I know - I'm the life of the party.
Well, yes, life on this planet will continue after us, but we should have a strong interest in not making things for us unbearable. Fighting global warming is not about "saving the planet" but about "saving ourselves".
Re:Warmest March in Global Recordkeeping
by VikingCoder on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @05:23PM
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I once discovered that the person I was talking to hated environmentalists, because in their thinking they wanted to protect the ENVIRONMENT, and not humans.
I tried to explain, "I can't speak for all environmentalists, but I want to protect the environment so that it's habitable and enjoyable FOR HUMANS."
I apparently blew his mind - he'd never considered that as a reason to be an environmentalist.
The problem we are facing is that in the last 100 years the temperature have constantly been rising, and the rise seems to even speed up. The consequences of this is at minimum a major shift of the ecological systems. If we are unlucky, even the collapse of some.
In any case we are facing severe consequences for human civilization as we know it. Even if we "just" lose cities like New York it would be bad, but whole countries like Bangladesh with over 100 Million of population are facing flooding.