The joke is on us

Global warming concerns me. Plus, I have watched 'An inconvenient truth'. It's a horror movie. It creates knee jerk reactions. I've have also seen the skeptists' rebuttal to Al Gore's 'truth'. And all said and done, it's still left me with an uneasiness that refuses to go away. I totally accept the fact that Gore probably only gets to those who were anyway 'environment conscious' in the first place. But that said, I have two different thoughts on this.

1) Certainly, if we keep up our ways, we are going to end up in a bad situation. If we gorge existing resources this way, we are gonna throw up... or get thrown up.

2) Just maybe we arent that significant at all. All our greed is not going to result in anything. There have been ice ages several times before and it's really a pattern the Earth follows anyway. We are just an experiment of Nature. We havent even been around long enough for Nature to determine whether we passed or failed. Not that Nature would care before Earth promptly turned on her heel and went into another long ice age... us bundled into fossils to create fuel for some other form of intelligence to come. Like a child playing on the beach, making sand castles... giggling and wiping out a tower here and a mound there purely for the heck of it.


Not to sound discouraging, but I get the eerie feeling that in either case, the joke is on us.