250,000 YEARS of man on earth and we're still here.

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Actually, HomoSapiens, before us humans, go back as far as 300,000 years ago. Just saying. But how long will we humans and all life still be here? And what kind of a life will the next few generations experience over the next 50 to 100 years? Do our children's children's children have a chance? I think they do, but still, the world is in danger of losing about 200 species a day. That would be 200 species x 365 for just one year. Can you do the math? While species are going extinct, humans are over the point where demand is more than supply of natural resources. Yes, I've heard this. I have seen the videos about global warming, CO2 is forever and Guy McPherson telling us all that we are lucky if we have a year before we have an "Ice Free Arctic" And they call this the 6th Mass Extinction. So that said, I want to say that we can choose to ignore it and go about business as usual and I do believe this will be the case from a political and social and economic basis, but I wonder if enough people who have been following the latest news reports and scientific data that is being collected, feel as I do, that maybe we have a chance to change the direction we are going with the earth's environment. It's not easy to just throw up our hands or decide to bury our heads in the sand and party like it's 2099. The Downplaying of it all, despite scientific reports 24/7, will not do any good to fix things. I want to think that there will somehow be a way to change the direction mass production of the automobile industry is going, making bigger vehicles than ever before, gas guzzling cars. The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Does that matter to us? It should! We live in our cities, far removed from it, and seem to be able to delude ourselves into a false sense of normalcy. But, that won't do anything to make it go away or be reversed. How can we agree to do nothing? Call it FAKE news if you want to. Go have a beer and watch a good sporting event, and forget about it. Go to bed at night and be glad you made it another day. But I will be counting the days. Nobody wants to accept it on an emotional level. But facts are impossible to ignore. Yes, it's all been said before. What's the point of rehashing it? There might be a way to put things back the way they once were. Might it be that we stop driving? Stop flying? Stop burning coal and oil and natural gas? Volunteering to be first in line to walk off a cliff until those who remain might still have a chance? Limiting child birth to one child per every 1000 couples? How would that work? Nobody would volunteer to just stop having children. Nobody will volunteer to stop FRACKING, CRACKING and SLACKING. Its not going to ever stop right? - WRONG. the day will come that we will actually run out of steam. Maybe it will not happen in my lifetime, but I do know that we are killing the future for the children. We are selfish to let it all continue as usual. Over 2 degrees C? Yes, it will make matters worse on a scale never before seen or felt by any living creature on earth. Hold on because it's going to be a bumpy ride. Are you ready? Heat waves are coming, droughts are on the way. Governmental subsidies of the energy industry and the international monetary fund comes to trillions of dollars a year tax money is going towards the largest banks on the planet. It's all about money. Money, greed and denial.