Whether it's global warming or not, you have to admit that this has been a strange year for weather. We were still having 80 degree days in October and now we are having our second major snowstorm of the year and it is only December 15th.
It really makes me wonder about down the road. Are we going to be telling our grandchildren about how when we were little, the temperature used to be under 100 almost every day in the summer? Or that we used to measure snow in inches instead of feet?
Personally, it's hard for me to believe that mankind can continue to grow and to destroy at the careless rate that it does without there being some sort of major breakdown of nature at some point. Whether we mess things up so bad that most of the earth is uninhabitable due to the climate or we cause some disease to be mutated in such a way that it can't be stopped, I think that at some point mankind will have to pay the piper for the way we have treated our home.
The way I see it, it's a race between technology and fate. Can we figure out a way to leave this planet and start over on a fresh one before our mistakes catch up with us? At this point it's not looking good for the technology side of things. We are still a long way off from visiting some of the closest planets to us in our own solar system let alone other star systems.
Sorry be all doom and gloom today, but I just don't see how we can continue to treat our planet the way we do and not expect it to bite us back someday. It frustrates me a lot, so I normally just try not to think about it, but if something isn't done soon, it will eventually be pretty bad around here.
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