Meltdown planet Earth?, Is Katrina ominous sign of future Options

According to the scientists were going to have one of the worst hurricane, typhoon etc seasons ever recored in America. Katrina's damage has been massive, far more than the average storm. Of course it's unfortunate that so many have died.

I'm mainly wondering, who here thinks that this is really just a period of natural climate change, or if this is ominous sign that the world's eco-terrorism will lead to greater and greater natural disasters until earth is just a junk heap.

My personal belief is that the world is changing for the better, but by being narrow minded and not understanding the true nature of the sentiment of terrorism most of the world will abuse the resources of the world will become a very bad place to live. Of course, I know that we as a whole believe science will rescue us from everything and it will be interesting to see if science really does supply us with those things which we need. I'm interested to hear what everyone else thinks about this.

My question is mostly, will the world survive to see such a change. I think a great many people have seen an interesting change in the weather patterns around the globe. However coincidental it might be, I don't recall hearing about any other huge tsunamis that have caused as much damage as that one which came most recently.

On a long enough time scale humanity has no future on planet earth. Why worry? All things are transient in nature, it is only the grasping ego that wants things to endure.

The Tsunami cannot really be blamed on climate change. The reason it had such a devistating effect is that due to population growth the coastal areas which were once not inhabited have become full of people. Industrialization of food production has allowed global population to grow to such an extent that natural disasters are having bigger and bigger impact.

It is not really sensible to build a city below sea level. It is not sensible to build a city on an earthquake zone over a fault line. Tokyo, San Francisco, New Orleans... all at risk from natural disasters. It is from our human perspective that these appear to be harbingers of doom, when in fact they are just natural events that we get caught up in. Lightning strikes, sometimes people get hit, its nothing personal on the part of nature.

So all this talk of 'end of the world' is just a humanocentric egoistic point of view. Once you accept the transient nature of all things it brings it all back into focus.