Climate change won’t destroy the world

Illustration by Grok. In Grok’s own words: “Remember, even in the bleakest scenarios, there’s a story to be told.”

For many, many, way too many years now I have grown tired of the constant green doomsday fearmongering.

I’ve been listening to discussions about this since the 1970s. In the 1980s, in school, in my case a German Gymnasium, they told us that in the early 2000s the melting of the polar caps would sink the city of Hamburg and we would be walking knee-deep in water in my city of birth, Bad Neuenahr.

It’s 2024 and like all the other green doomsday predictions, it never happened.

Freak weather events like extreme flood of 2021 have been happening in my home region on average every 80 years and have been on historical records for centuries, since long before industrialization even began, so they very obviously are no evidence for anything.

When Noah had to build the ark, there was no industry anywhere on the planet. The ancient Egyptians knew of more than just this one cataclysmic flood in their historical records.

So let me say that I’ve got good news for you:

Unless we decide to start a nuclear war, the planet will just keep changing and evolving and the world simply won’t end.

Maybe it will become inhabitable for humans at some point, but evolution won’t care much about that; we humans are not as important as we want to believe…