Global Warming and Climate Change} Is mankind good for the planet or bad?
The planet does not care if mankind is here or not! It is simply a collection of material leftover from whatever caused the solar system to form and then come together by gravity and vast amounts of time for life to emerge. Mankind is only one of the billions of lifeforms that have called this planet home. Very seldom do the lifeforms that have evolved on this planet make any major changes in other lifeforms, even though every lifeform has to be able to work in conjunction with other lifeforms. The only major change that I know about was when plants, and single-cell, and multi-cell life started producing oxygen as a waste by-product, which ended up causing the greatest extinction of that very life that the planet has ever seen. But without that cause and effort, life, as we know it, could never have started. Let's talk a little about extinctions, and what causes them, the easiest to understand is the giant asteroids, that has caused several major and minor extinction on the planet,...