CCXCVII Global Warming and Climate Change} Why do we believe that what has happened in the past, should have no bearing on the future?

Mankind is only on this planet because of almost everything that has happened in the past. Think of it this way, if your father and mother had never met, you would not be here, if any of your ancestors had never met or died before meeting you would not be here! Even if your parents had sex on a different day or time you would probably not be you, just another version of a sibling. A mother puts out normally only one different egg a month, but a father produces millions of different sperm at any one time, and it is believed that every sperm of which only one fertilizes the egg, is in some way different than every other sperm. The very fact that any one of us is alive on this planet at this time is most unlikely and yet here we all are! This does not even take into consideration that there has been life on this planet for around 3,000,000,000 years and mankind has only been around between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 years, and none of our past civilizations are thought to be nearly this old. At this point in time, we do not really have the ability to say how mankind has truly overcome other mankind type species, for it seems that we have the genetic DNA of many of those others so we must be close enough to breed with and continue bringing forward all of there DNA. So we must share many points of contact and possibly a common ancestor, that both time and distance may have caused mutation to develop, or perhaps desirable genes and appearances or even simple aggressive behavior caused certain looks to survive, and others to either move away or die out. The native Mayans and Incas and Aztecs all lived in what we now refer to as Central and South America, and all practiced human sacrifice, and burial of their own. This could lead us to see if the skeletal remains of each civilization and the people that they went to war with, were of the same appearance or slightly different in appearance. Not that it would make much of a difference, in the grand scheme of things, but it would be interesting to know. Let us now continue with the big question, how could we even consider that the planet's past is not relevant to what the planet is going through now, of course, it is, and it has to be. All life on this planet has to be constantly changing to adapt to a continually changing planet and its atmosphere. Evolution and adaption are not necessarily the same thing, however, these are simply man-made words trying to explain, what life needed to go through in its journey to survive on an ever-changing planet. Plantlife has already made the necessary adaption for carbon-based life to continue with ever-decreasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, by the introduction of both C4 plant life and CAM plant life. Both can survive carbon dioxide levels much lower than C3 plant life, which dies when carbon dioxide in the atmosphere approaches levels of around 150 parts per million in the atmosphere. This level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would set off a cascading effect, with the death of C3 plant, would also mean the death of most mammal life which would include humans of any large numbers, due to lack of a food source sufficient for large numbers to be feed. It would also cause the planet to enter into a never-ending glaciation period, which starts to occur when carbon dioxide in the atmosphere approaches between 180 and 200 parts per million in the atmosphere. In time this would cause the whole planet to freeze up which scientists do believe has happened in the past, they called it snow-ball Earth! Somehow around 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 years ago a new species started to adapt into a thinking and acting species capable of changing the environment around them, helping to increase their own chances of survival. I have always believed that mankind was just another random adaptation of life or an evolutionary expectation. But it is so hard for me to convince myself that such a random act would occur, just at the time that the planet needs exactly that to happen! But as I said earlier, the very fact that somehow the impossibility of any one of us being born became a reality! Each and every one of the 7,000,000,000 people on this planet hit that jackpot, is it any less likely we are here when all carbon-based life on the planet needed exactly that! If there were only 1,000,000 people on the planet, could that size of a human population be enough to save all carbon-based life on the planet even with the technology we have now? I do not believe we could, but perhaps all it would take, could be one person with the right "plan" but it would have to be a lot better than my "plan"! As always I can be reached in the USA at 402-890-7946 or by G-mail at daniel.kadavy212@gmail.com  or you can find 295 more posts at <https://lifecycleofaplanet.blogspot.com> Thank you and try and tell others about that seemingly Crazier than a fruitcake guy in Nebraska. Dan