Planet Earth.
Let me begin with, I’m not one for stats, that’s Matty’s department.
It’s difficult where to begin. There are so many points of interest from the beginning of humankind, after our existence and before.
Our Planet has always endured change through a natural or unnatural occurrence throughout its history, which is relatively short in the wider spectrum of the life of the Universe.
The Earth is somewhere approximating 4.543 billion years old. It’s said the moon 4.53 billion years old, fractured from the planet after a cataclysmic strike from debris flying around and being very naughty in Space.
The sun is allegedly 4.603 billion years old. The milky way a gigantic 13.51 billion years old. Well that’s older than some of Stu’s socks.
So in terms of age, Earth verses humans. What is the time scale?
Hominins first appeared around 6 million years ago.
They are basically the gorilla leaving the forest.
Moving on, homo sapiens first appeared around 300,000 years ago with brains actually larger than they are today. That actually makes a lot of sense considering how our race is destroying its own home.
It’s not like burning down your own house and buying another. It’s destroying the planet. There’s no way back from that. Perhaps in a couple of hundred years scientists will find another planet to inhabit and ultimately destroy. It’s what humans do.
Deforestation?
What does that mean?
It means oxygen levels decrease as carbon monoxide increases due to the fact people would rather farm or raise cows to feed the ever increasing population.
Shame that that’s a blinkered and short term way to adopt the meaning of life. This continuation of deforestation won’t sustain anyone.
Across the tropics a study registered the destruction in 2020 of 4.2 million hectares ( 10.4 million acres) of primary forest. 12% higher than the year before.
Ecosystems store biodiversity and store vast amounts of carbon,.
0nly 36% of the planets 14.6 million square kilometres of tropical rainforests remain intact, while 34% of it is completely gone and the remaining 30% has been degraded.
This planet is dying.
The sun above our heads will live on long after we destroy this place we take for granted.
These self righteous politicians that went to COP26 don’t really care. They say they do but they don’t actually care what happens in one or two hundred years time.
Yep, that soon.
This planet if we took care of it would last for as long as the sun shone in the sky and our moon beside us dictating weather and tides, but no the human race is far to eager to kill all living things on the back of making a quick buck.
Did you know, during certain times of the year there would be half a million swallows entering the UK to do whatever it is that brings them here. Guess what? Since the 80’s that number as steadily declined to 20,000.
That number will continually decrease.
During the past 30 years the bird population has decreased by 600 million.
Once the birds Go then we truly are fooked.
The planet will heat ( latest estimate ) by 2.4 degrees, not the 1.5 previously mentioned.
If this happens as half the planet burns and the other half drowns then there will only be one outcome as the planet heats up. The drowning half will become dry due to the heat drinking up the water. Then we’ll have 100% of this world burning, just like Mars has done billions of years ago.
This planet is already dying.
The human race is committing mass suicide.
There is no way back?
There is a way back but if we destroy the rain forests in Brazil, Peru, Madagascar and everywhere else in the World then we really are screwed. Ya can’t breathe carbon monoxide.
As I said I don’t do stats.
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