Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Climate 101: Deforestation | National Geographic" video.

Let me break things to you all. Over 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth went extinct. The planet went throught temperatures way over anything climate change could ever cause, and way down what most animals and even plants could ever survive. The interest in stopping climate change, preventing current species from going extinct and stopping things like deforestation is selfish, and purely for our own benefit. Which is why we need to redouble efforts. Even if you think you don't care about those, you tip the balance too much to the wrong side and the delicate ecossystem we depend on to live can come tumbling down just like it also happened for previous dominating species in past epochs. Because the planet isn't going anywhere, and it would recover plenty fast overtime. Specially without us. Faster without us. The only thing poised to dramatically change if we do nothing is our own survival. We'll most likely not survive the next big natural mass extinction event anyways, better make good use and stretch things as long as we can by NOT killing ourselves with out own hands and actions. Who knows? We could have a few millenia to enjoy as long as we don't keep polluting and screwing around as much. We're but a tiny tiny tiny blip in Earth's timeline. Grain of sand in a beach, spec of dust floating around Earth's in a nanosecond-like moment of it's life. It's quite funny when you think that among the other animals who ruled the planet through long periods of time, we might end up being among the most short lived. Couple hundred thousand years is basically nothing in comparison to dinosaurs who might have been the dominant species for a good hundred million years. Which in turn is also nothing in comparison to Earth's approximate 4.5 billion years of age (as far as we know).
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