Tell everyone you know: “The sky isn’t falling!” Climate change is not an existential threat. It’s happened before and the world survived. Glaciers melted before, and refroze. They’re melting again and we have a lot more climate decades ahead of us.
How do we know this? It’s because of the finds in the melting ice around the world. According to an article from June of 2021 in the Smithsonian Magazine, in the remote Lendbreen ice patch in Norway’s Jotunheim Mountains, a wooden box with a candle inside was found, along with clothing and shoes. Other finds have revealed many “rare items preserved in deep banks of ice and snow for centuries.”
Other finds, from as many as 1500 years ago, are an ancient forest in Alaska, a frozen horse and dog in Norway, many human remains in several places, reindeer infected with Anthrax in Siberia, some new islands in Greenland, and a camel-hair rope found in Mongolia.
There are many more, but the point is that the glaciers were not always there, so it must have been much warmer before they were formed. The fear back then was probably that climate change was causing such cold that the earth could not survive. But of course it did, and it will.
By the way, the term existential is way overused today. It’s based on the root “exist” and pertains to anything that affects our existence or our perception of our life. So an existential threat refers to something that will harm us. Thus to call climate an existential threat conjures up the fear that we may not continue to exist because of it. It’s fearmongering at its worst, especially for children.
On a final note, the sky will not fall until God brings down the New Earth and the New Heaven, wherein righteousness dwells!
