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in the grand scheme of things, humans and what we have produced is nothing. Given enough time everything will be decomposed. On in the words of a great comedian
by mirceal 7y ago
in the grand scheme of things, humans and what we have produced is nothing. Given enough time everything will be decomposed. On in the words of a great comedian: "the planet is fine, people are f'ed"
My worry is that we will transform Earth into a landfill and in desperation we will search (and find) another planet to trash. Humans are very very creative when it comes to survival. Only a fraction of people alive will make it to the new planet. Rinse and repeat.
- growlist 7y ago> in the grand scheme of things, humans and what we have produced is nothing In my experience, geologists tend towards this type of viewpoint!
- mirceal 7y agonot a geologist, but we all have to look at things in perspective
- dark_ph0enix 7y agoGeorge Carlin had some great quotes indeed (this specific one comes from his take on the environment [1]). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
- MS90 7y agoGiven enough time, the Earth will be incinerated by the sun as it expands into a red giant. Solved the plastic problem! Though as you said, I'm sure we'll have a few hundred (thousand) landfill planets by then.
- benzene 7y agoOn a smaller scale, how about using a mass accelerator to dispose of trash by shooting it into the sun?
- nitrogen 7y agoI think the sun is further away in terms of energy required than one would expect. You don't just have to escape the Earth, you also need to cancel or redirect its orbital velocity around the sun to get a trajectory that reaches the sun.
- Pawamoy 7y agoThen throw it into space, whatever the direction. The universe is so vast, even if the entirety of the earth was garbage it would be nothing compared to it ;)