Professor Ian Plimer

So we are already adapting, and that's the one thing we humans can do.

We can adapt, and adapt very, very quickly.

A rising sea level, it's not overnight.

The one geological process that would be difficult to adapt to very quickly would be an asteroid impact.

And the chances of that decrease all the time as the solar system settles down even more.

But we can adapt.

These things don't happen overnight.

They take time.

Climate change doesn't occur between Thursday and Saturday.

It takes a very long period of time.

And humans have adapted before.

We'll do it again and probably much better because we're a technological species now.

Well, we've got the eight major rivers that are putting plastics into the ocean.

We've got the oceans with a large amount of microplastics.

We have changed climate at, say, Mount Kilimanjaro by forest clearing.

We've had less precipitation on Mount Kilimanjaro.

That's fairly well established.

But we are probably in the Western world polluting less than we did 200 years ago.

And that's because we're wealthy.

But you go to parts of the third world, it's just disgusting how dirty it is and how dangerous it is.