How many of you think it's the planet, Earth, that's in danger because of climate

[Captain ó Ceallacháin]

change, etc.? It's not. Earth is a big old piece of rock and molten metal and no matter what we do (short of somehow blowing it to bits) it'll be here for a long while -- probably another five billion years or so, until the sun turns into a red giant and incinerates it. What is actually in danger when people talk about climate change, whether man made or not, is whatever LIVES on the planet, ie HUMANS. There's a very delicate balance, always, that keeps all species alive, and if that's disturbed even a little bit, by people or by an asteroid or seismic activity or whatever, and smaller things begin to die off, it will eventually impact the larger species, and WE are the dominant species here. We will be among the least likely to survive something like that, because we can't live off of radioactive dust specks like cockroaches. We are a very demanding species and not as adaptable as we like to think we are. This is why people freak out about climate change and try to curb it as much as possible. We don't know how far the climate can go one way or another before the smaller creatures start to die off. It's a chain-reaction, and it's unstoppable once it starts.

I'm just curious: How many of you think we would survive if most animals and plant life on Earth were to die off? How so?

The Earth will go on even when we're gone and eventually, other life will probably come to take our places. But we won't be here anymore. And if we could have done anything to change that fate, it will be too late then. Doesn't that disturb you at all?