Human Race - Planet Earth killers?

I've recently realised that my notion of global warming probably wasn't very accurate. See, I think I've often wrongly associated global warming with every other negative aspects of what has been happening around the world these last couple of years. Naively, I perhaps wasn't all that informed about what global warming really is and what it means. To me it was just another environmental problem, like pollution, just presented on a much grander scale.

So here's the deal. Simply put the Earth is heating. It is becoming warmer than it was years ago, causing all kinds of things to melt, like glaciers; not to mention sea levels are rising; warmer seas are causing coral bleaching; and even tropical diseases are spreading because of global warming. Greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide emissions are said to be the main reasons for these climate changes, some of which are actually naturally produced. Of course human activity has inevitably greatly increased production of these gases.

When you look at what they're telling us is happening, it does all seem pretty terrifying. But the truth is it can't be that simple. No one can say with absolute certainty that all of these are the cause of global warming. Sure, they may be factors, but that's different than saying it's because we drive our cars to the shop up the road and leave the lights on that all of this is happening.

In reality you can't deny that there is a probability that some of these things, for example ice sheets retreating, is just nature taking its course. And admist the global warming hysteria, there has been an effort to support that claim. When the Earth cooled, scientists claimed we were about to face an Ice Age. Safe to say, it hasn't happened. Yet. Now, the opposite is happening, and there is a widely spread notion that we are responsible for the increasingly negative environmental changes. But how much of that really was inevitable? After all, isn't it just normal that after centuries of occupying a planet, it is bound to be 'worn out'?

Admittedly we may have hastened the process with technological progresses, growing populations, etc.., but we can't honestly believe that while we're sustaining lifestyles and continuously evolving, the Earth would remain just as it was. Nothing lasts forever, why should we expect our planet to? Everything eventually, well... depreciates, I guess you could say. And the plain fact is, no one can or wants to put their lives on hold, stop building factories or use their car, just so the planet survives longer.

I know it sounds like I'm exonerating the human race from the possible destruction of the planet Earth. I'm not. I'm simply saying maybe this is actually supposed to happen - eventually. Not so much the end of the world part, but more so the climate change and natural disasters. Yes, human activity factors into it, but of course we do, we 're living on it! We're bound to leave traces of our existence. And yes, we could take a hell of a lot of more care of our planet. But that doesn't rule out the fact that some aspects/evidences of global warming is just the work of mother nature herself and/or the cycle of life. The question is, how fast are we going to make it happen?


That being said, I'm still trying to do and live right by our planet - to an extent.