J W:
Exactly, we humans and all life on earth today are the result of many mass extinction events going all the way to the beginning ... just because we don't survive doesn't mean the earth won't survive.
The permian mass extinction 250 million years ago was triggered by global warming. The basis of the web of life is ocean plankton; the permian ended with the destruction of 97% of all marine life, and was by far the worst mass extinction of the five, excepting perhaps the current one.
We are heating the globe 500 times faster than it heated in the permian. Climate change is upon us and will get only get more radical. Humans may survive underground.
It's not only that climate change is irreversible, but also that it is accelerated beyond anything seen in the last 3.5 billion years. Nature took thousands of years to lay down the ancient forests we burn every day.
I have come to realize that it is not your politics that is the essence of current debate, but whether you deny science, truth and common sense.
We are faced with the spectacle of virtually all the wealthy individuals and corporations funding poisonous conspiracy theories in order to undermine public trust and keep people too confused to take the obvious steps to mitigate current threats to human existence. Pointless to name names, it is all of them, the entire capitalist class, lined up against science, sense and human survival. Greed over human life becomes naked in the pandemic, but it is climate change that will kill the oceans and potentially all multicellular life.
Can we get great masses of people to demand conservation and material sacrifice? I think we could with proper leadership. Conversely, poor leadership has accelerated the world over the cliff.
At this poiht simply articulating a sane and sensible view of reality, without interpretation or opinion, seems all one can do. If we want mass extinction, species suicide and political turmoil we need only maintain the status quo.
terry
THE SECOND COMING
(w b yeats)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Is there a possibility that Human Realm could be on numerous planets in the universe? I mean sooner rather than later we will likely inhabit both Earth and Mars 
