Yes...our very little but energic Mother Earth is about 4 billion years old...give or take a few hundred million in either direction. The universe...a staggering 13.8 billion years old...
To get to this day...she's had to naturally evolve and build herself up and tear herself down with dramatic violence many many times from the inside out. She continues to do this in similar, although with less drama, but greater impact* today.
Many other times in those many years, she's been struck by outside influences causing any and sometimes all of the previous internal growth efforts to shift the patterns of stability and foster whole new paths.
We, as a collective, should be thanking the tremendous maturity and gravitational influence of Jupiter on a daily basis that these outside influences dont happen as often as they once did.
We should be thanking ourselves we were not around as intelligent beings in those days.
*greater impact* means that her inhabitants are greater in number and growing at a pace never perceived in "history". 6+ Billion humans and counting....absorbing her natural resources at alarming rates without sustainable replensishment.
6+ Billion creating new & inventive industrial ways to increase our functions while we live...
6+ Billion ways damage to the protective outer layers of skin that keep us relatively safe from harmful radiation... in our truly and amazingly perfect orbital space...92 million miles away from our much needed primary energy source.
Since you're never supposed to ask a lady her true age...that is not in question her and she'll probably lie to you anyway. She, like our solar system siblings will continue to revolve and orbit with or without us for at least another 4.5 billion years - until our central star reaches it's evolutionary destiny...
Anyone with intelligence who doesn't question or understand the relative impact of 6+ Billion lives combined with our growing industrial needs and unnatural & outpaced resource absorbtion of our mother earth has missed the point.
Yes, CO2 Levels have probably been higher in mother earths violent past. But at those times, she was able to regulate those levels with precious resources that grew out of necessity and actually liked it...providing even higher levels of oxygen...and very little if any damage to our atospheric layers.
Hypocritically, I drive an SUV everyday that consumes precious fossil fuels and every day I'm sorry. I still use many of the unnaturally made plastic products but try to recycle and look forward to innovations of more natural compostable uses for the same products.
I worry every day about these hugely conflicting reports that confuse people and are the basis for this large argument...and I worry more for the next 50-100 years of projected ocean rise and cannot fathom (pardon pun) why coastal cities have not begun there migration inland already.
My position is that in the next 10 years there will be enough people that do get it and demonstrate hard factual evidence and make sustainable decisions to at least limit the damage further - perhaps gain ground by planting 100 million or more CO2 loving trees in the process...
The oceans have risen and lowered many times before...again with less of an impact* than we will face later.
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