We can't carry on as we are now simply because there isn't the reserves of oil and gas to be able to. They will be long gone well before 100 years have passed and nowhere near the 4 to 500 years you think that we will carry on if attitudes don't change
What that will do is to help prolong our planets sources of metals by reducing the amount we have to mine to replace what we have used which must be a very good thing if we are going to consider the long term view of things rather than the current attitude of making things disposable.
I think...
Opinions based on what though?
The scaremongering by those who push global warming / climate change and say we are doomed if we don't change now?
Why is it no longer called global warming? - because the planet is not actually warming!
Can't the climate change thing be down to natural factors...
If things are as bad as you make out, why have soo many extremely common examples of damaging behaviors or practices still uncontrolled?
Such as the use of plastics for food storage rather than much more environmentally friendly alternatives? Why hasn't excessive waste & excessive packaging...
Could the whole attitude of this 'green' society thinking have more to do with the Earths dwindling oil, gas and fossil fuel reserves and the need to wean people away from these and one way of selling it's alternatives is to scare people away from traditional fuels (or at least make them less...
So it was 1.2 degrees hotter in 2013 than the average, so what? - Do you think that the climate doesn't vary from year to year and would remain constant if it wasn't for man?
Average means that some years will be hotter and some cooler and the cause can be from a far and wide selection of...