Climate Change, Supervolcanoes, Algae, Meteors, Mothers-in-Law, etc.

There are too many theories of how the great extinctions came about, way too many. I have read about meteors causing extinction, weather causing extinction, algae causing extinction, supervolcanoes causing mass extinctions, etc. Everything except the staid, tried and true mother-in-law theory of mass extinction, and I suppose that will be next.

I put forth my own idea that "it was just time" for an extinction, based on Wolfram's Cellular Automata behavior where suddenly regions of structure and form may come into being at step 100, endure for millions of steps, then suddenly disappear - with no apparent reason we can see - at the 50,000,000th step: it was just time for structure to go back to chaos.

What does this have to do with Climate Change?

Well, to my way of thinking, everything comes into being, lives, and passes away, either when it is time to go, or pushed into death by accident or a powerful inducement to extinction. If it isn't Climate Change, it will be something else.
We either are committed to Life as Mankind, or we are not. So far, we are doing little or nothing to protect, cherish, and extend the Life of Mankind. We witness increases in wealth and production, watching China bring millions into a semblance of a middle class, and we are happy that capitalism works so well. But we also have to be committed to Mankind, and plan to protect life and the quality of life. In essence, we have to enter into an age beyond capitalism.
Every possible situation that is injurious to mankind has its opposite, where we assert that the situation is not injurious; Cigarettes and Tobacco come to mind: there is yet a group of "flat-earthers" about tobacco, complete with scientists, who hold that smoking isn't all that bad. They can still discuss and moot it; they can "politic" about it.

For us, the Political Scenario has taken center stage, and we "politic" about everything for ages and ages. So far, everything has moved along at just the right snail's pace to let us do this, and reaffirm our smugness in how bright and brilliant we are. Except when we decide to go off and wage wars based on idle dreams and deceitful schemes...but even then, we see proof of our brilliance and forethought.

When things move fast, the Political Scenario will be thrown into the waste basket.
Then what do we do, since we have never thought in terms of hundreds and thousands of years. The best we can do is jibber-jabber about spending our grandkids inheritance. We hear that over and over, and we have heard it for all my life. Never did a thing about it for the long term, neither. Pretty much said, screw them grandkids!
We never really thought about creating a better world for grandkids in a long time. Maybe 60 years or more. We never thought beyond that: creating a better world hundreds of years down the way. Certainly not thousands of years! Let the dead bury the dead, and let the unborn bury the unborn!

The way of faith is a committment to God and His creation, and thus a committment to the Life of Mankind.