DXIII 513 I have tried to explain why 3.5 billion years of carbon sequestration, has been the driving force behind "almost" every single extinction event in Earth's History!
But everyone seems to want to see humanity as the cuprite, why? We were not even on the planet until perhaps a few hundred thousand years ago and unable to affect the planet's climate until we were forced to become an agricultural-based society only a little more than 10,000 years ago! Why have we been teaching this to our children? Understandably, we can be seen as totally responsible for damages that can be put directly at our feet for pollution, loss of the protective Ozone layer, (yes we have learned from our mistakes) red tides, and even wars that destroy not just ourselves but parts of the Earth's environment as well! But we can not be held responsible for the loss of so much of our planet's temperature-regulating abilities brought about by low carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere, which are directly caused by all carbon-based life on Earth! All of that happened millions of years prior to humanity's appearance on the planet!