Naturally Occurring Hope

 MOST INFORMATION concerning climate change is depressingly negative. Millions of idiots deny its existence, to preserve their self esteem and political viewpoint. The rate of increase atmospheric carbon is slowing, but the net content is increasing, not decreasing. Deforestation continues. The polar regions and the oceans are warming at much greater rates than previously thought, and climate scientists are alarmed by this. Every year is the hottest year on record. and so forth. All negative. A seemingly endless litany of negative realities. But juxtaposed against all this is one overarching reality: nature, by nature, seeks equilibrium. Nature is constantly, like humans, engaged in healing itself. Rivers over time tend to flush out their own pollution, if left alone. If left alone the atmosphere, over time, clean itself up. Likewise the land. problem is, there aint no way on Earth or under heaven that we the people are going to leave the Earth well enough alone. What remains to us, as we have long known but seldom practices, is to make our living as much in harmony with nature as possible, instead of with complete disregard for natural health of the environment, exclusively for our own convenience, pleasure and profit. We must take heart, and be optimistic. It is not too late to save the ecosystem. it can only be done,however, with sustained, fundamental change in human behavior. That too we have long known, but have tried to avoid acknowledging and acting upon. And since humans by nature are conservative and resistant to change, making the necessary changes will be tedious and strenuous, as we have already seen. but humans have survived and evolved because of resiliency. Although we only change when forced to, when forced to , we change. Future historians will likely regard climate change deniers of the twenty first century, and the "bring back coal" crowd, aka Trump supporters, as dinosaurs, throwbacks to an era long gone, hinderers of essential progress, much like people who refuse to accept modern science, advances in medicine, advances in our understanding of nature. Refusing to accept the reality of climate change caused by human activity is no more sensible than refusing to accept the fact of human evolution by natural selection, the fact of nuclear physics, relativity, or microbiology. the good news is that such people, like dinosaurs, are doomed to extinction.