Ever thought (but never said) Californian weather in Germany wouldn’t be such a bad thing? Don’t worry: you are not the only one taking global 'warming' as, in that extent, good thing. German biologist Josef Reichholf now said in an interview for the magazine Der Spiegel, that’s actually the natural way to think: “Biologically speaking, we are children of the tropics”! Wherever we go, we artificially create our own comfortable climate (through cloths etc.) – 27 degrees Celsius. That simply means: a milder climate won’t pose problems for mankind as a whole. We are flexible enough to change accordingly to the conditions around us. The same is also true for most plants and animals. But Reichholf goes one step further: his thesis is that warming temperatures in contrast to common knowledge promote biodiversity. He paints the picture of flourishing new habitats growing in numbers in the future parallel to global warming – if we manage not to destroy them through human intervention right away.
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