As I walked along the sidewalk today I had a thought. One of those thoughts that simmers for quite awhile before you actually become conscious of it. It lurks in the back of the mind and escapes like a gas bubble trapped under melting ice. The global warming debate holds two major thoughts:

a. mankind is causing the current climate change and we need to do what we can now in order to minimize it or we are toast.

b. the planet has cooled down and heated up over the eons, we are witnessing the transition between two natural states.

The thought that came into my head was, if this is a natural change, wouldnt we want to stop it anyway? From what I have seen and heard, it doesnt really matter if it started naturally or artifically, it is happening and it doesnt look good for humans.

My thought also posed a question: if this change is natural do we have the right to change it? We have assumed the right countless times in the past to change our environment, why shy away now?

The very people who say leave the earth/environment alone, global warming is a natural event are also the ones that support exploratory oil drilling, deforestation, and wholesale suburbanization. These things change the earth/environment tremendously. What is the difference between the two?

The answer to that is easy enough. It is the answer to a lot of hard questions.

Inconvenience vs. Convenience