I think either extreme perception is disingenuous toward its opposite. "The sky is falling" is scare-mongering, and bad. "Everything is fine, carry on as usual" is denial, and bad.
I don't think we are /causing/ climate change. The climate changes, it has changed, it will change, whether we exist or not.
I do think we are /contributing to/ climate change. We are changing the geographical composition of our planet through building, drilling, creating cavities in the earth where they hadn't previously existed, taking that earth we've just dug out and placed it in piles somewhere else. Removed fossil fuels, and then burned them so they are no longer 'in' the planet but are now in the atmosphere, in changed form, instead. Polluted the land and seas, causing death to entire species of animals and by extension, upset the food chain. We've razed wilderness and planted produce, synthesized chemicals to keep insects from eating the food, which then poisons whatever animals eat those insects, and so on and so forth.
That is all things we, as a species, have done. We do it more and more, and we are slowly /contributing/ to the destruction of our planet. The planet will die eventually, as all planets eventually do. But we are helping to speed up its inevitable death. At this point, in my opinion, we can only hope that our species dies, or that we find a new planet to occupy, build on, and help destroy, before our planet dies.
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