hmmm, no. The Earth doesn't adapt. Living things adapt. Rocks, dirt, and water, do not. What it will do is hit a new equalibrium climate (based on the new outflow to inflow of carbon in the enviroment), that's not adapting. It's no more adapting than by throwing a rock into the air, when it hits the ground, it breaks into a dozen pieces, and saying that the rock 'adapted' to the impact by breaking.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Adapt = adjust/change. Are you saying the Earth will not adjust/change as a result of what man does to it?

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Adapt (v): to adjust oneself to different conditions.

The Earth will not change itself, it will be changed by us. Adaption implies that the thing that is adapting is causing the adaptations to the different conditions. The Earth is not causing it's own changes to adjust for us, but it is being directly changed by us. Adapt is far more specific that adjust or change.

People don't 'adapt' to a gunshot wound by dieing. Even though that is a change, it is not an adaptation. Surely you have more to the arguement than twisting words.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Think of it more as warfare between the planet and man.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Maybe we should promote peace than.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Or we could be the conquerors that we humans are by nature. It all depends on one's perspective.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Sorry, warefare with the planet is not going to end well. That's like being at war with you home, even if you 'win' you still destroyed your home, only this is on a bigger scale.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Maybe. Maybe not.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Is that something that we should risk?

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

That depends on what we choose to do. If we develop technology that can manipulate the environment then it might be worth the risk.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."