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Just a comment from the late great George Carlin in regards to environmental issues like this; "Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet... nothing wron
by HashingtheCode 6y ago
Just a comment from the late great George Carlin in regards to environmental issues like this;
"Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet... nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine... the people are fucked! Difference! The planet is fine! Compared to the people, THE PLANET IS DOING GREAT: Been here four and a half billion years! Do you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years, we’ve been here what? 100,000? Maybe 200,000? And we’ve only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200 years. 200 years versus four and a half billion and we have the conceit to think that somehow, we’re a threat? That somehow, we’re going to put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that’s just a-floatin’ around the sun? The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us: been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drifts, solar flares, sunspots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and
asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages, and we think some plastic bags and aluminum cans are going to make a difference?
The planet isn’t going anywhere... we are! We’re going away! Pack your shit folks! We’re going away and we won’t leave much of a trace either, thank God for that... maybe a little styrofoam... maybe... little styrofoam. The planet will be here, we’ll be long gone; just another failed mutation; just another closed-end biological mistake; an evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of
fleas, a surface nuisance. You wanna know how the planet’s doing? Ask those people in Pompeii who are frozen into position from volcanic ash how the planet’s doing. Wanna know if the planet’s all right? Ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble if they feel
like a threat to the planet this week. How about those people in Kilauea, Hawaii who build their homes right next to an active volcano and then wonder why they have lava in the living room?"
BTW, you people that keep down voting me because I don't agree with your position, trying to shut me down, stopping me from expressing my opinion, you guys, are fascists.
Don't believe me about climate change scaremongering, here is a long list over the past 50 years of failed environmental disasters....
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyp...
- defterGoose 6y agoPlease don't source your worldview from a comedian. The snark can be temporarily comforting, but just remember that it's a distraction. Carlin is deeply wrong about the effect we can have on the biosphere. You simply can't simplify the problem without losing all meaningful nuance.
- HashingtheCode 6y agoFair enough. But did you have a read of the failed climate predictions over the past 50 years? It's hilarious.
- jjeaff 6y agoI'm not sure that Carlin is saying what you think he is saying. He's not saying there won't be climate change. He's just saying that climate change is going to destroy humanity. It won't destroy the planet, per se.
- HashingtheCode 6y agoIt's pretty clear what he is saying; which is that humanity will have little if no impact on the Earth. He is not talking about climate change and the people panicking about possible 25m sea level increase. Read the full transcript; https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2019/08/22/george-carlin-saving-planet-transcript/ https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2019/08/22/george-carlin-savin...
- calvano915 6y ago> It's pretty clear what he is saying; which is that humanity will have little if no impact on the Earth. > He is not talking about climate change and the people panicking about possible 25m sea level increase. > Read the full transcript; > https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2019/08/22/george-carlin-savin https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2019/08/22/george-carlin-savin... "The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself cause that’s what it does." Pretty sure he's stating that humans are a destructive force to the Earth and ourselves, but that only we will cease to exist because of it.