George Carlin on Saving the Planet

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George Carlin on Saving the Planet

Post by mnaz » June 3rd, 2023, 6:13 am

The Planet is fine.
Four billion years of rock.
The rock has survived ice
ages, eruptions, asteroid strikes,
spinning in a black space desert,
its species dancing to extinction.
The rock outlasts surface rashes,
sheds redundancies like dog hair.
If plastic is the insidious big threat,
killing oceans once pure and alive,
rock will bury plastic in its strata,
the four billion years of rock.
And counting.

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Re: George Carlin on Saving the Planet

Post by mnaz » June 3rd, 2023, 3:07 pm

I mean, he's not wrong, but ...

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Re: George Carlin on Saving the Planet

Post by saw » June 6th, 2023, 7:30 am

with unchecked population growth.....and manufactures that care nothing about the environment ......only cheap ways to satisfy all those people is creating mountains....oceans....of waste that isn't breaking down....and will likely strangle us, if nothing is done to stop the assault...
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: George Carlin on Saving the Planet

Post by mnaz » June 9th, 2023, 10:16 am

Yes, and I think that was essentially his point. It's a very large-- yet finite-- reservoir. Mass-exploitation and waste won't "kill the planet," but make it more uninhabitable. The planet will kill us, not the other way around. The planet isn't going anywhere. It has a huge weight advantage. It's a touchy subject, and people don't like its "politics," but I think of it as simple physics-- action, reaction. Push, and the rock pushes back.

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Re: George Carlin on Saving the Planet

Post by Doreen Peri » June 10th, 2023, 12:42 am

mnaz wrote:
June 9th, 2023, 10:16 am
Yes, and I think that was essentially his point. It's a very large-- yet finite-- reservoir. Mass-exploitation and waste won't "kill the planet," but make it more uninhabitable. The planet will kill us, not the other way around. The planet isn't going anywhere. It has a huge weight advantage. It's a touchy subject, and people don't like its "politics," but I think of it as simple physics-- action, reaction. Push, and the rock pushes back.
Exactly!!!

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Re: George Carlin on Saving the Planet

Post by mnaz » June 10th, 2023, 2:43 pm

I've always felt we should "err on the side of caution" when it comes to this question, but this point-of-view has RARELY been popular in my lifetime. Just roll dice, keep expanding, maybe you'll get lucky. Sometimes I picture Earth as Dirty Harry: "Well punk, are you feeling lucky?"

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