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Originally Posted by thedoc
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Originally Posted by But
Hmm. Let's see. Climate changes. The planet has fever.
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A fever is usually a bodies was of killing an infection, So if the planet has a fever it's probably trying to get rid of an infection, and the only one I can think of right now is people. |
Indeed. Some proponents of the "Gaia Hypothesis" more or less seriously claim that global warming is the planet's way of getting rid of us -- or more precisely, the industrial technology that is contributing to destabilization of the Earth's ecosystems.
Personally, I think that the Gaia Hypothesis is pretty-much nonsense on stilts, but I must admit that there's a certain poetic justice to the notion of us being done in by our own arrogant refusal to accept that our actions have consequences.