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.