Mike the Usurper wrote:

The final answer is going to be given to us by reality, with its well known liberal bias. We're not killing the planet. Short of blowing up the entire global nuclear arsenal in one location simultaneously (and even that's a maybe), the planet is going to go merrily spinning on its way through the universe. It could care less about us, and at the rate we're going, it will leave us behind the same way it left trilobites and the dinosaurs.

Georgia Carlin has a great bit where he talks about the Earth. He goes on and on about how the Earth survived all kinds of horrible things like meteoroid strikes, the magnetic poles shifting, ice ages coming and going, continents breaking apart and slamming together, and the he says "And you think some plastic bags and aluminum cans are going to do anything?"

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