I am seeing the smoke from the Canadian and other wildfires @ 2 pm 8/13/25 Central Ohio

[North Coast Lawyer]

10. things change

The Earth's environment's are always changing with or without human help. Recent human activity is indeed impacting the environment -- climate change is real. However, not everyone will lose -- there will be winners and losers. Before I gave it up and went to law school I spent a lot of time studying boreal forest environments (at university and with the Canadian Forest Service). There have been times in the past when the boreal forest was much smaller than it is today. Such times weren't better or worse than today -- just different.

There's no reason to believe that human aided climate change will be catastrophic. Things will be different for sure. However, there's no reason to think that detrimental impacts won't be outweighed by new opportunities.