NORTHERN PLANNER

I was glued to a series the BBC did recently on the power of the earth. It covered volcanoes, the sea, the climate and icebergs amongst other things.

And you know what? When you look at the long history of the world, you realise how insignificant today’s global warming really is. There have been five massive extinctions, over 98% of the species that have lived here have been erased from the skin of the earth.

The world has survived meteors, volcanic eruptions that covered the earth in ash for years. It’s survived every inch of its surface being frozen over. It’s even survived a collision with something big enough to blow a chunk off that became the moon.

That’s why it’s a little arrogant for humans to talk of ‘saving our planet’. It will do just fine, it always has. Save other species, save ourselves……..maybe, let’s hope so.

Maybe talking about saving ourselves would serve to unite us a little more, make us think as one species fighting for our future, rather than diluting it with untrue assertions about saving the earth. That’s what I would hope.