Humans are just plain stupid.

I haven't had much time to write here lately, obviously, but the willful and idiotic stupidity I see being displayed today warrants a few moments on the keys.

LiveScience.com reports that the earth, specifically this northern hemisphere, is hotter now than it has been for the last 400 years, and maybe for the last two milleinia. Our jack-ass driven government says nnaahhhh....it ain't that bad. And besides, if it was, 5 million people might lose their jobs.......

How stupid are these people, for real? I am flabberghasted that humans just cannot see in their minds' eyes the potential reaction to their actions, or in this case, failure to act. Is the almighty greed upon which most of the governing body of this nation based truly so completely blind?! and better yet, are those who keep voting these self-serving jackasses into office (this means you, folks)willing to keep putting up with being mislead, lied to, and placated while the only home we have slowly kills us off because we are too stupid to give up some of our technology?

There have been five mojour extinctions on this planet ( I will assume most who might read this are intelligent enough to accept that this planet is about 4.5 BILLION years old?.) Each was caused by sudden changes in the environment, by whatever means, that tested all living things' ability to survive. Each time, more than 96% of all life on the planet was wiped out. The way science writes about it, we get the impression that it happened instantly, by our standards. We forget that a lifetime for one of us isn't even a blink in the time line of the planet, the galaxy, or the universe. This latest problem has been building up for almost two centuries; that's a reasonable amount of time to create an extinction, and it is precisely what is happening.

There's a really big catch to this: humans are causing what is bringing on the 6th planetwide extinction, and humans will be killed off, by their own hand, by their own willful ignorance, like the animals we are.
No one ever asked before if the thing that caused an extinction before managed to survive that same situation. I can pretty well guarantee, it didn't. And neither will we, vanity, greed and stupidity aside. We are not greater than Nature, though we can affect Her.

"Man did not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand in it. What he does to the web, he does to himself." Chief Seattle



There. Now back to lunch. I am really ashamed sometimes to be human. Find me a way to be proud again, without the vanity. Give the Gods reason to love us again.