Dead Goldfish, Dead Planet - A Warning ?

This morning I discovered the remaining goldfish in the aquarium lifeless, eyes bulging, lying on the bottom of the tank. Inspection discovered that the filter had become clogged with toxic waste - but it was too late for Mr. Goldfish. The toxins had killed him (His identical roommate fared better. A couple weeks ago he was sent to a pond for being too fat for the tank -- where he is now either swimming freely or has become protein for a cat or raccoon in the food chain).

But the Aquarium Goldfish story could be our story - that 6 billion humans discover too late that we have fouled our own planetary tank with billions in fossil fuel emissions and brought life as we know it to an end. Scientists have discovered that the water temperature under the arctic ice is 40 degrees - way above freezing! This speeds up the ice melt even faster.

By the time we realize that our own greenhouse gas emissions have passed 'fail safe' on the path towards killing us by overheating the planet into a Venus-type hothouse atmosphere, it will be too late to fix it. At that time it will be too late for your grandkids to do anything about it. Their future is in our hands.

Denials that millions of our global industries which are pumping billions of tons of emissions into the atmosphere are not having an effect compared to 800,000 years of a few cavemen sitting around a campfire is not logical, or smart on our part.

The world the goldfish lived in wasn't the entire planet. So if we get it wrong and fail to address imbalances in our world's carbon system, there is no suburb we can move to to escape the inevitable. I've heard that the moon Titan has potential as a second home for humans, but it would be smarter to fix our own planet first -- before we kill our grandchildrens' future. The oceans are already predicted to rise several feet this century. Even our military has warned about the disaster of human induced climate change.

If I'm wrong, we end up with Green energy jobs and cleaner air and water. If the skeptics are wrong, we end up with a Venus climate for Earth, a dead world where neither people nor goldfish can survive.

Which is worse?

And consider this. Scientists think that there is another "Goldilocks Planet" like EARTH in our solar system. The Bad News: With our current space technology, it would take 380,000 years to reach it! Ummm, so if we mess up this one, it's a LONG way to the next Earth folks...