Posts Tagged ‘hotter planet’

Mammals to Evolve Faster, Get Smaller with Climate Change

Look, I know we usually cover the innovative solutions that we humans invent here - but when nature itself comes up with a perfect solution to a really big problem; shouldn’t we cover that at Cleantechnica too? Shouldn’t we cover innovative NatureTech too?

The two most overwhelming technological problems of our age are that

  1. Because of the rapidity of climate change; ecosystems and species cannot evolve fast enough to avoid extinction.
  2. Our species uses more than one planet’s resources.

What will be left after just a century or climate change will be something as different from our current climate as the Jurassic period was; but it is happening millions of years faster. Even we humans are not adapted to that whole new climate that we are creating with climate change. Yet.

Image: Atomic Avenue #1 by Glen Orbik

It would be like moving to Mars next month for us. We’re just not adapted yet…

We know the problem: it’s big. And we have thought up some gigantic solutions to these problems we have created. But for a totally different kind of out of the box innovative thinking: — in news today from the BBC:

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