I was thinking about the age of earth after watching this and having a look at this. If you google the age of earth, it will tell you: 4.54 billion years. And the age of universe is: 13.8 billion years.
So it took the universe 9.26 billion years to give birth to the earth and four and half billion years for earth to come up with the diverse living species on it (and also this level of intellectuality). On the other hand our Sun got more than 6 billion years to finish its fuel. You got where Im going with this. In less than four billion years we will evolve to super humans, Sumans! The rate of evolution would be much faster and I don't think we really need that much time. On the contrary, think about what just we did to our beautiful planet during the last 100 years (with all of the pollution, increasing in temperature, accumulated CO2, nukes, and lots of irreversible damages). Do you remember the Flash Crash(watch it here)? Almost the same thing will happen to the earth if we don't do anything about it. Do you think we can make it to the end of this century?!
This is a serious question. Last week it was a meeting called "The Global Emissions Gap Report 2013" in Germany (you can find Gap Report for year 2012 here - I will have another post on this report later). Basically countries (actually 13) who are producing more than 70 percent of global emissions are trying to fill the gap between what is expected as a pledge made by them to reduce emissions and the amount of emissions that is needed to keep the temperature change less than 2 degree Celsius till 2020.
2020 is not that far, fingers crossed!
One thing is for sure: Any delay will be very expensive for Sumans!
So it took the universe 9.26 billion years to give birth to the earth and four and half billion years for earth to come up with the diverse living species on it (and also this level of intellectuality). On the other hand our Sun got more than 6 billion years to finish its fuel. You got where Im going with this. In less than four billion years we will evolve to super humans, Sumans! The rate of evolution would be much faster and I don't think we really need that much time. On the contrary, think about what just we did to our beautiful planet during the last 100 years (with all of the pollution, increasing in temperature, accumulated CO2, nukes, and lots of irreversible damages). Do you remember the Flash Crash(watch it here)? Almost the same thing will happen to the earth if we don't do anything about it. Do you think we can make it to the end of this century?!
This is a serious question. Last week it was a meeting called "The Global Emissions Gap Report 2013" in Germany (you can find Gap Report for year 2012 here - I will have another post on this report later). Basically countries (actually 13) who are producing more than 70 percent of global emissions are trying to fill the gap between what is expected as a pledge made by them to reduce emissions and the amount of emissions that is needed to keep the temperature change less than 2 degree Celsius till 2020.
2020 is not that far, fingers crossed!
One thing is for sure: Any delay will be very expensive for Sumans!
