Now there's the perspective!!!

Change is inevitable. No one can argue that things are getting warmer right now, or that there are reasons why. Even if we shut down the whole process tomorrow, things will likely continue on their merry path, getting warmer or colder, or whatever it is that this planet, with all it's dynamics, will do. Industrial pollution isn't the sole source of all that is bad, nor all that is changing our planet. If we are really worried about greenhouse gases and global warming, we have the technology to remediate our environment to whatever we think it ought to be. The question is then, how much influence do we really think we have over what is happening, and would we be reacting to a situation that is as natural as the North of Africa suddenly drying up into a huge desert.

This planet, with all it's diversity and dynamics, is going to go on doing it's thing despite whatever we do to it. Change is inevitable. If you want to find a way for humanity to go on, better find a way to adapt to whatever comes. Yeah, it could be man-made, but it doesn't necessarily have to be, and if it isn't what implications does our response have?

So it is getting warmer, so what? If it is meant to be, then that's that. I'll say it again, it is pure arrogance for man to think he has this much impact on this planet. If the Amazon turns into another Sahara, life will still go on. If North America freezes up, life still goes on. What happens if we go to all the trouble of cutting our emissions down, and the planet continues to heat up (or cool down) anyways, or the big rock comes down, or the caldera goes critical, or someone pushes the big red button?

If our past tells us anything, it says that we will deal with it, and get on with doing what we do best.