It’s is fairly encouraging to hear that some aquatic species as well as certain bird species are making a bit of a comeback since the Thames was declared biologically dead years ago.
However this must be treated with caution due to the ever changing climate due to many factors, not least due to the global warming and sewage / pollution made mostly by mankind.
I will be more relaxed when the global powers that be make real inroads to slowing down or better yet stopping the trend of ever increasing global warming and pollutions worldwide to maintain damage limitations.
But a nice sliver of hope though that not all yet is lost and always good to hear that some places and rivers are more resilient than previously thought.
There is zero way that humans can control the climate or the natural changes within the Earth
People constantly forget that the Earth is a living, breathing and moving entity. One volcanic eruption puts more noxious gasses into the Earth's own atmosphere than any human is capable of doing
The industrial revolution during the Victorian era placed far more contamination into Earth's atmosphere than we have done in more recent times, and yet the Earth did not change, nor did the climate
The Earth makes its own climate, it has a molten core that frequently reaches the surface via volcanoes and this has happened since the tectonic plates moved apart thus giving us the continents. Those same tectonic plates are still constantly moving now - despite humankind trying to halt that movement such as the reinforced concrete poured into various parts of faults around the world.
There have been at least 5 complete extinctions PRIOR to humankind massing on the Earth. There have been multiple ice age and overheat climatic changes since the Earth first evolved into becoming a planet capable of sustaining life in both animals and humankind
To say that humankind has ANY influence on the climate or the warming of the Earth is entirely irresponsible and to a degree arrogant, humankind might have strength in numbers but they certainly cannot alter what the Earth is doing now or in the future
We humans are mere tenants on Earth, we have a pre-ordained lifespan and the Earth is more than capable of wiping us out without our help. This has been proven many times already.
The movement towards cutting meat from the human diet is simply ridiculous. Plant life governs the removal of CO2 yet here we are eating veggies like they will save the world.....veggies give humans gas, veggies eaten in the amounts being prescribed will do far more harm than good in the long term
Earth is in charge of its own climate and atmosphere. Humans are a mere blot on a very large landscape, just as the dinosaurs were...and the dinosaurs were not wiped out by humankind...the planet managed that all by itself. This planet with its constnatly moving tectonic plates, its constantly erupting volcanoes and the volcanoes still to come back to life, such as Yellowstone, will call time on humankind. Lifestyles of humans will not make one iota of difference.
We humans are guests, we are tenants...we do not have permanent residence here on this planet called Earth.
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