Bushwalk Australia

You might have seen something like this before - it's more or less to scale. That little red line at the end of the top part is "Quaternary". You'll have to click on the picture and zoom in to see it. The Quaternary is 2.5 million years long, but modern human are only in the last 200,000 years and recorded history the last 3% of modern human existence.



So, yes!.. basically we arrived in the lasthour - at the last minute, and trashed the place.

Edit: Oops, minutes not hours.

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A good read.... 2052 by Jorgen Randers.

The only thing we're really putting at risk is the survival of our race. The Earth will shake us off like lice and go about it's business.

ollster wrote:The only thing we're really putting at risk is the survival of our race. The Earth will shake us off like lice and go about it's business.

If only that was so. We have already destroyed too many other species, and many more will disappear before we do.

ollster wrote:The Earth will shake us off like lice and go about it's business.

Yes, the earth is not quite half way through its life. It has another 5000 million years (or more) before its consumed in the sun's as it become a red giant. Humans on the other hand are probably much closer to the end of their reign. And yes Miyata610, we'll have taken so much with us by the time we're done.

Miyata610 wrote:If only that was so. We have already destroyed too many other species, and many more will disappear before we do.

If your belief system is evidence based, then you'll know that's not too much of a problem unless we find a way to destroy the fundamental underpinnings of life on the planet. Never know, it might not happen. It was looking almost certain that we'd reach mutually assured destruction in the 80s but we eventually wised up. Still, that was political, and not needs-based so I guess once we start running out of resources if we haven't found some solutions we'll probably end up at the brink again sooner rather than later.

And we're all to blame.

ollster wrote:And we're all to blame.

*points at Adam* He started it.

north-north-west wrote:*points at Adam* He started it.

That's not what it says in my version. My version clearly says Eve started it all! Adam was duped.

walkinTas wrote:That's not what it says in my version. My version clearly says Eve started it all! Adam was duped.

Adam was probably made to feel like it was all his fault either way...

Ah I get it, I thought wT had gone on a bender and gatecrashed a party...

walkinTas wrote:

north-north-west wrote:*points at Adam* He started it.

That's not what it says in my version. My version clearly says Eve started it all! Adam was duped.

Sometimes I'm a bit slow (OK, maybe more than sometimes and maybe more than a bit). I had been trying to figure out why you were blaming it all on Tasadam!

Its ok nik... we can blame Tasadam so long as he doesn't read this to defend himself or complain can't we??!


LATER EDIT: Well... apparently he does read posts like this and after severely chastising myself... we can't blame Tasadam after all

walkinTas wrote:

north-north-west wrote:*points at Adam* He started it.

That's not what it says in my version. My version clearly says Eve started it all! Adam was duped.

Adam wrote the book. Of course he blamed it all on someone else.

north-north-west wrote:

walkinTas wrote:

north-north-west wrote:*points at Adam* He started it.

That's not what it says in my version. My version clearly says Eve started it all! Adam was duped.

Adam wrote the book. Of course he blamed it all on someone else.

True ... but at the time i bet his missus told him what words would work better?!