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George Carlin on saving the planet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeSMPESpxdA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeSMPESpxdA

• frereubu 8y ago
  I agree with the part about people who worry about everything. But the bit Carlin misses is that what's troubling is the increase in the rate of extinctions[0]. Of course species go extinct on a regular basis, but when so many are going extinct in such a short space of time, it creates issues like a reduction in biodiversity, which in turn leads to a higher risk of a disease outbreak in a dominant species being catastrophic for an ecosystem. I agree with Carlin about most things, but like Bill Hick's blind spot about smoking, I think he's wrong here. [0] https://www.britannica.com/science/conservation-ecology/Calculating-background-extinction-rates#ref272668 https://www.britannica.com/science/conservation-ecology/Calc...