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How long do you think our planet has left?

So where everyone is going on about plastic and stuff damaging nature and all that. What about the real question. How long do you think our planet has before the ozone layer is destroyed by global warming and our nature killed by man.

Quote: (can't remember who said it but I agree with this so wondered if anyone felt the same)
Our own creation will be our own ending.

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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M Best Comment

I hope more people will begin to realize how vulnerable it is and alter behavior and, hopefully, at least stop further ruination and at best begin a reversal of damage. Unfortunately, under the current administration, the US refuses to be the lead in this!

april50 · F

@samueltyler2 In fact, "vulnerable" is the very last thing this planet is, and the minuscule effect of human life on the planet is little more than a gnat bite. It has survived ice ages, massive 'snowball earth" glaciation, collisions with asteroids, temperatures massively above today's norms, Global volcanic eruptions on a scale unimaginable to us. Higher oceans, lower oceans. At least three orogenic periods, the last been the recent tertiary orogeny.

The idea of a vulnerable earth is the brainchild of catastrophist econuts.

RoxClymer · 41-45, M

the planet- millions of years left

how long will it be able to sustain human life?

no more than 500 more years

rfhh1959 · 61-69, M

Forgive me if I don't believe all the climate change doomsday prophecies. I remember when we were going to die in the 70s we were only 12 years away then from a global winter the planet was going to freeze over and we weren't going to be able to do anything. The Doomsday Machine always is close enough that to cause fear but far enough away that people forget it didn't happen. We have instruments that can measure anything now and we're comparing it to inaccurate readings of the past. There are satellite photography that shows the planet temperature has gone up no more than Maybe 1/2 to 1 full degrees Fahrenheit. The Earth is going to end because of climate is it fraught with inaccuracies as those who claim Jesus is coming back tomorrow

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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Silentangel I respect everyone's right to an opinion. But, it isn't a matter of "right." Science doesn't work that way. Science provides data and allows for hypotheses. It is unusual to prove one theory is "right."

Silentangel · 26-30, F

@samueltyler2 exactly, everyone has a different opinion and views on what should be done and whos to say who's right or wrong really

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Silentangel there you go with right or wrong. I am afraid you missed my point. When science shows such strong data about the causes of climate change and offers suggestions to alter the trajectory, and "we" refuse to take the steps suggested, then we become science detractors and complicent in the trajectory which is causing immense problems for us.

april50 · F

Our planet is entirely the child of our sun. The sun is around its half-life. In around 5 billion years, as it runs out of fuel, it will expand and swallow planet earth. Until then, have no fears.

Incidentally, the alleged depletion of the ozone layer (a matter of considerable scientific doubt- it may have been more a measurement issue) was not related to global warming. It was to do with the release of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

Silentangel · 26-30, F

@april50 I do agree with that but there is some damage on our planet you have to admit that with all the documentation going on. But I do wonder if they actually over express what's going on. But the trouble is if they don't over dramatise stuff nothing gets done 🤷

SW-User

You made that up! Lol

DunningKruger · 61-69, M

About 4 billion years.

Oh, you mean just the biosphere? Yeah, man, that's toast. Fuggitaboutit.

The ozone layer has been repairing itself pretty well for a while now — that problem wasn't caused by climate change, but rather various pollutants released into the atmosphere. I'm not as hopeful we'll be able to reverse climate change as readily.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@DunningKruger the ozone level has been repairing itself primarily because of interventions designed to do just that.

SW-User

Maybe 2 billion years as capable of sustaining life. If we fired every nuke we had tommorrow it wouldnt destroy the earth nor all life. Certainly we would go and the rest of the mammals, birds most fish. But some would survive, some new life would recreate its self, it would be no different to the last extinction event. The earth will survive all we do, we won't.

billstickers · 36-40, M

4 hours and three minutes so bend over.

Silentangel · 26-30, F

@billstickers fuck off. Don't ever speak to me like that again understand.

billstickers · 36-40, M

@Silentangel You moron.

MasterLee · 56-60, M

Oh 80 billion years probably

billstickers · 36-40, M

@MasterLee is that approximately 👍️

MasterLee · 56-60, M

@billstickers more or less. Give or take a millenia.

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Silentangel · 26-30, F

@Randy4944 😂 I love the measurements 😂 . I do think we have some years left it's an interesting debate. But where we have a seed bank etc where they've been storing stuff for years I think we'd be fine if the worst should happen to our planet.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

thanks for the best answer. I have gotten to the point I ignore those "flat earthers" who refuse to believe the science involved and the damage mankind has done and is increasingly doing to our planet!

april50 · F

@samueltyler2 It is clear you do ignore anything that does not resonate in your own little echo chamber. And - as we all know - ignorance is bliss. I commend you on a blissfully ignorant existence. To ignore the overwhelming evidence of this planet's fabulous resilience is the true measure of a flat earther.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@april50 oh, wow. I guess it would be best to ignore you, but since you must be a brilliant scientist who knows other facts than I do after being involved in the science of pollution for almost 50 years, I'd love to learn from you. Do you have 3videnc3 refuting the rapid changes in our environment since the industrial revolution which is currently accelerating even more rapidly? Have you personally been to.the glacier and seen the change in its size over the past 50 years? I have. I also sit on EPA and other environmental councils, along with other respected scientists, maybe you should apply for membership.

MasterLee · 56-60, M

856 million years

GJOFJ3 · 61-69, M

I don't believe it will be destroyed but restored to it's original perfect state.

Ephesians 3:21: "Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

It’s 2 minuets to midnight if you listen to all the soap dodging tree huggers

Silentangel · 26-30, F

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout 😂😂 no not a tree hugger I go by facts not what's in front of me xD . They do they every few years and cause panic and some chaos haha

Subsumedpat · 36-40, M

I think we have a long time left but we should keep in mind that the way we are going will shorten its life.

XDHyperGirlXD1 · 31-35, F

raises hand ohhh ohh I know I know teacher pick me pick me continue to raise hand :O :O

gobacktoyourroomandstudy

Huh? What planet? There's no plastic here on Pluto... I must be at the wrong address.

Mugin16 · 46-50, M

About 4.5 billion years, I would say.

SW-User

100 years

MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M

I don't believe we need to worry anything about the earth being destroyed, however harmageddon is near.

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