Evolution: life solves climate change worries (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, June 18, 2022, 14:30 (672 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTE: The newfound group is the most genetically diverse out of all 20 populations in the Arctic, and genetic comparisons suggest that they have been isolated from the northeastern population for around 200 years, the researchers said.

DAVID: The climatologist alarmists forget about the resilience of living organisms to find livable spots.

A useful reminder that local environments play an all-important role in diversity, and yes indeed, living organisms not only find new habitations, but they also adapt to new conditions, and it is possible that the mechanisms enabling them to do so may also have enabled them to design new ways of exploiting those conditions. (Hence evolution.)

I’m afraid I’m far from convinced that all living organisms, including human beings, are going to find “livable spots”. The current refugee crisis could prove to be a minor blip compared to future migrations.I have no idea to what extent we are responsible for the famines, floods, droughts, hurricanes etc. which are wiping out whole species and communities, but these “natural disasters”, allied to other appalling consequences of human greed, selfishness and lust for power, don’t exactly fill me with hope for our children’s and grandchildren’s future. Could these thoughts be the wisdom of old age or its ramblings? Whichever they are, I wish we could find some Great Leaders who would find ways of reversing the headlong rush to destruction.