I listened to a fellow give a speech about climate change and energy alternatives. At one point he made the statement that he didn't see what people find so beautiful about glaciers, because they are not abundant with life. He also made the argument that life thrived in much warmer geological epochs than ours.

These statements are true, but misleading, and largely based on dangerous sentiments. We consider or current level of energy consumption to be 'normal' even though our current levels are only about 60 years old, and we are resitant to consider reverting back to 10% or even 20% of our current levels. On the other hand, we are willing to consider a 2 or 3 or even 10 degree increase in global temperature over the next 100 or 200 years as being normal, because such temperature exited 30-50 millions of years ago, even though they are very abnormal in the context of the past 10,000 years, and even the past 1 million years. Don't even get me started on CO2 levels or mass extinctions.

Clearly we don't get out enough.