>How do we respond to this?
"We" don't, we can't, we do not have the tools necessary.
By the time change is realized, it is too late.
We are past the point of return.
We, like all living things either adapt to change, or perish.
It was/is/will be the way of things, adapt or die, simple.
Mankind has been remarkable in its adaptations, will we continue to be so?
Some of my ancestors lived on an ice sheet covering northern Europe, as the climate changed and the ice retreated, they had trouble adapting and were absorbed and replaced by a new group of humans who adapted
Nothing is permanent, nothing stays the same, nothing lives forever
Adapt and thrive or resist and perish.
Won't really matter to you or I, change takes a while, a continuous process, you just don't realize it, we don't live long enough to have it effect is personally
Worry about things you can effect, enjoy your life while you are here.
Next to might need to begin planning ways to stop our star from eventually expanding and burning the Earth to a cinder, it's a ways out, but I am sure a sub committee could be established, with a budget, to look into the negative effects and possible remedies of this impeding problem, I believe we are nearing a turning point now, with enough funding and taxing powers, we might be able to "do something", time to get involved, to build awareness, to assign blame, only a mere billion years left, better hurry.
