Nature's Cycles

I know this has been a controversial subject as of late, but I feel we must discuss global warming. There are a lot of people out there who would like us to think that whitemankind (decisively not humankind) has screwed up the environment. Aside from the fact that the evidence is dubious, at best (if you're the typical American politician who never learned rational thought, or the typical American public who finds it easier to believe poeple they kid themselves into believing really learned rational though, but didn't) (Read that last sentence again. It really does make sense), if we chose to believe that point of view, then it means that we need to do something to make it better. And quite frankly, I haven't a clue what we'd do at this point.

Of course, the bigger problem is whom do we blame. But I fear that would be a whole nother topic altogether. Which brings me back to the original idea.

I have come to the conclusion that it truly is cyclic. It, in this case, meaning the environment. Every billion or so years, an intelligent race rises up and screws up the planet so horribly that their race is entirely wiped out along with a good part of the planet. Then, over a billion years' time, give or take, all traces of that civilization are totally wiped out. Ice ages and the such. Hell, even radioactive waste would be fine by then.

That's when, of course, a new race rises up.

And in 5 billion years, give or take, the Sun will supernova and we will be blown to radioactive dust which will slowly colalesce into a new planet under a new sun. And that, too is cyclic.