The Living Earth

"Much of the tropical land mass will become scrub and desert and will no 
longer serve for regulation, thus adding to the 40 percent of the Earth's 
surface we have already depleted to feed ourselves..."

Even if we did everything to stop climate change it won't reverse the 
damage we have done. If this hot state is irreversible, civilization may 
not survive and normalcy is just something we will remember from our 
history which will also disappear.

We will disappear but our atoms will not. Gaia will live on and microbes 
will re-inherit the earth. AND in the geological and cosmological time 
line it may be nothing more than a brief moment in time.

Continued (POINTER): http://inyourface.info/ArT/Chi/EaF.shtml