Were Humans Put on the Planet in order to HEAT It?
I take this supercontrarian climate change hypothesis with a whole shaker of salt, but it makes fascinating reading. Thirty years ago, before we knew all that much about catastrophic climate change, Jeff Berkowitz wrote a brief paper entitled “The Consequences of Gaia, or The Carbonist Manifesto.” Berkowitz, a computer programmer and technology geek with a background in alternative energy and the Gaia Hypothesis, posits that the earth is out of balance; the human epoch is the coolest period in many millions of years, because too much carbon got sequestered, so the earth designed humans to release it back out again. And yes, he admits to a certain amount of tongue-in-cheekness, but in a recent interview, Berkowitz stands by his hypothesis. I have not downloaded the actual paper, but I did read all three pages of the article about it. What do you think?
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I already answered no after the first 6 words; we evolved here, we were not put here by any extraneous agent. Also, there are simpler and more direct mechanisms to generate more heat in the system, ones that come without human poisons, extinction of species, etc. I find it much harder to refute the hypothesis presented by one of the Mr. Smiths in The Matrix: the only organisms that grow exponentially without limit are cancers, and humans are a cancer on the earth. If we’re not, perhaps we should stop acting like one. What counts in the world is our effect, not our intent. No drop of water feels responsible for the flood.