Carlin's specific bit was about marketing, but the meme took on a life of its own as a simple refutation of environmentalism. How many times have you heard som

Carlin's specific bit was about marketing, but the meme took on a life of its own as a simple refutation of environmentalism. How many times have you heard some chuckle over "save the planet" and then open an honest debate about an environmental policy? At least in my experience, when someone points "the earth will be fine", it's typically followed with a simple example of some natural phenomena that exerts more one-time ecological stress than a given societal issue and then they're done. They're using that idea to argue their position.