As a student and teacher of biology, I have long known that living creatures thrive on this planet if they can adapt to change. Those that can not will slowly die out.
Surely that applies to the human race that is faced with climate change. There are now changes taking place to which we may have to adapt.
Droughts, floods, cyclones and fires may require that all living creatures adapt as creatures did in the ice ages.
If the sea rises, we must either move or lift the level of the land above the sea level. Bush fires may require us not to live in forests or build homes that can withstand fires.
Perhaps there should be annual nation wide back burning, perhaps at the hands of indigenous rangers. That would be better than putting them in the cells. Perhaps indigenous men and women in the Northern Territory could be recruited into the police force.
Perhaps there should be annual nation wide back burning, perhaps at the hands of indigenous rangers. That would be better than putting them in the cells. Perhaps indigenous men and women in the Northern Territory could be recruited into the police force.
Floods and cyclones may force us to change. We conserve the water from the floods that ravage the earth in this era. We adapt. So much rain water ends up in the sea.
The Dutch protected their lowland centuries ago with sea walls or dykes. Are the Governments of the Pacific sitting around waiting for sea walls to be built for them by Australia or China?
The Dutch protected their lowland centuries ago with sea walls or dykes. Are the Governments of the Pacific sitting around waiting for sea walls to be built for them by Australia or China?
It may be inevitable that the Arctic ice disappears. That means that the living creatures must adapt to the new conditions. Seals eat fish. Polar bears eat seals.
We are told that 100 million people will be affected in low lying areas by sea rises. How are we going to adapt? The Sahara Desert was once lush forest. So too Antarctic that was once forest and rivers before the tectonic plate moved to its present position.
Millions died in the little ice age that ended only 300 years ago. It was so cold that people never moved out of their homes. So too the rats lived in the homes and brought bubonic plague to the people. The rats adapted to the cold. Ancestors of living creatures today survived the little ice age.
Greta Thunberg may become the hero of the generation not a brat as some foreign politician has called her.
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