People have been blaming them for millenia for everything from the death of Christ to the black death to 9/11. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
The carbon dioxide that Mankind will put into the atmosphere over the next few hundred years will offset a couple of millenia of post-Holocene Optimum cooling before we plunge into the next ice age. (globalclimatescam.com)
Summarizing over millenia of jurisprudential thinking, we can see that the special status of persons (when not reduced to divine gift: not applicable under current US law) derives from the fact that persons have a capacity to reason, and to choose actions based on their reasoning. (law.stackexchange.com)