To Joey

Joey,


Thank you for your insights, very well put. I agree that Human Beings are merely a tiny part of a larger, ever changing and all encompassing energy.
I have studied Geology, which strongly influences my opinion that the planet would survive virtually any Human activity on it's surface and the related by-products of said activity. In the context of geological time Human Beings haven't been a part of the equation very long at all, and we will most surely disappear. The Earth will last far beyond our period, and flourish despite the vast amounts of garbage we may well leave in our wake.
This is a special planet within our own solar system, because it can support and create life. But I would agree that it is nothing particularly special within the entire universe.
The people who claim to support the save the planet movement are most likely scared of quite a few things I would think, and oblivion would certainly top their lists - but not complete oblivion, only the oblivion of the Human Race - which is my point.
Our reality is absurd, and by absurd I do not mean ridiculous or silly, I mean it is incongruent with our own nature. We have managed our existence in completely the wrong way, and you're argument that we have separated ourselves from the natural world is a shining example of just how absurd our reality is.

Not only do I embrace it, I yearn for it.
It's almost amusing that people are always so eager to reach the end of things, to be first at the finish line - except when it comes to our own existence.

An Analysis of Slogans - Part One of a series examining the deeper meaning of a simple, yet deceptively powerful device employed by popular movements down through the ages - the almighty slogan

SAVE THE PLANET!

I think it's about time we called a spade a spade. 


Those in favor of saving the planet are not genuinely worried about the planet - they are in fact worried about the survival of the Human Race. Global Warming, or Climate Change (whichever catch phrase you prefer) is, at best, an insignificant threat to the planet itself, but it certainly does seem to make things increasingly more difficult for the living creatures on it's surface...including the Human creatures.  
So when I see a bumper sticker on a beat up Volvo missing it's muffler that reads, "Save the Planet", I know that what it really means is "Save the Human Race". And, as it has always been with the Human Race, it is only our own necks we are concerned about. So enough with this save the planet talk already - and if you're heartfelt desire really is to save the planet, then I suppose your aim should be the complete extinction of the Human Race, because ultimately, we are really the only thing that is wrong with this planet. 

"If there is a God, then he really fucked up when he made people." - Frank Vincent Zappa -

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