@NotConvinced
CC? ... Climate change?
I'm not qualified to speak about the hippos.
But I do see human influence messing with flood plains, creating worse situations thru what turns out to be horridly wrong assumptions.
Of course climate changes happen, habitats alter, this has happened since day one.
What is different now is the speed and intensity of that change.
And yes, human alterations on the planet are a huge factor in the overall increase in heat, (not even mentioning the pollution, extinctions of countless species)

@NotConvinced
And now may be the end of us. We should be fighting tooth and nail to do everything we can do to stabilize our habitat.
NOT use the previous climate disasters as an excuse to continue RAPING our environment, decimating other species.

 I am beginning to wonder about some people here, and on other sites. For folks to argue for harmful actions to continue causes me to suspect their motives. For me to try to explain my worries... I can't imagine any ulterior motive.  

For those proponents of continued pollution, continued trashing of our water, land and air. I can only suspect a monetary motive... Or total blindness?

@NotConvinced
Getting people to acknowledge that humans have a role in creating these problems and MUST commit to solving them, seems darn important to me.
You are correct that I didn't read your profile right then, (tho perhaps at one time I had)
But you might not have read mine either.
With no purse, no youth, and little ability to speak in groups, THIS is my forum, my soapbox.
I deem the future of our planet and our kids extremely vital. Perhaps I will find other methods to contribute, eventually, yes.
But for now, I use my ability to think somewhat logically and to convey those thoughts via formats like this.
Caring deeply is an emotional reaction, but if I didn't care, I might just forget it all and post about my kids or cat.