Our comfortable lives

We´re all enjoying a comfortable life aren´t we.

We have a high standard of hygiene (loo and Co, think of the huge amount of flush water that´s being used any second, and the waste has to be disposed of, and we are indeed numerous, so we´re not talking of pints but tons and tons),

convenient electricity coming out of the socket outlet,

we drive cars and fly planes,

all these are things which I wouldn´t trade in for something less.

But some day the bill for all this will be presented: the main culprit is that we´re burning carbon for energy. This surely is going to do great harm. 

Our planet has undergone lots of climatic changes, with no damages at all, the planet Earth is very solid, and there´s lots of time for adaptation and evolution.

But we creatures are so short-lived, and we have the means to influence the balance which makes our lives possible. We can´t exist in a hot environment with hurricanes, flooding and all the consequences of a warming-up atmosphere. Our planet can live with that, at least we´re using natural ingredients. But we can´t endure.