Does the Greenland Ice Care?

The planetary energy systems on the surface of this planet (including the inter-related subsystems of solar irradiance, atmosphere, oceans, ice plating and crust tectonics) do not have the capacity to care whether the Third Temple gets built, whether you call war a Crusade or a Jihad, what language(s) you speak, whether your child's ultra-cheap toothbrush bought from Wal-mart and made in a western Chinese province is a molded petroleum by-product, or whether you understand that "agriculture" is actually a new human technology entirely dependent on a statistically improbable global climatic stability.

Rent "2001 - A Space Odessey". Watch just the first 20 minutes.

In the coming decades, homo sapien's adaptation to geologic transforms (like nothing that has occured in the last 10,000 years, well beyond the human 'historical' memory) will offer us, each of us individually, the opportuinity to apply 5,000 years of cultural learning and decide whether we will resolve our conflicts with clubs or collaboration.

As one of 6 or 7 billion, I (also) believe in a better way.

An yes, this is naive, idealist, weak even (in a yin way). It also may be the only practical adaptative framework.

Greenland's ice doesn't care, one way or the other.