Monday, April 26, 2010
The planet is trying to shake us off like a bad case of fleas.
I had no clue that my sole purpose in life was make plastic for our planet. Thankyou George Carlin, now I know that. All sarcasm aside Carlin did raise some pretty good points. Especially when he compared how long humans have been on the planet to how long the planet has actually been in existence. and meteors and ice ages and shit. Our planet has gone through some way more traumatic stuff than an overdose on carbon dioxide. He's also right. We are so worried about taking care of the "bees and trees and whales and snales" they we havent even realized that we can barely take care of ourselves. Im too lazy at the moment to look up the daily world death rate but Im pretty sure that its high. And I am also pretty sure that about half of those deaths are semi-preventable. The rest are either accidents our the negative effect of nature (whther it be viral, chemical, atmospheric etc) on the human body. In a nutshell, Nature is kicking or fat assess and we still have the nerve to call ourselves boss. I dont thiink we need to focus on eevery tree and bird and snail when our own extinction is approaching much more rapidly. However, we should fight to save pandas because theyre really cute and i like them.
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Your right it relate to the whole Wendell Berry essay about Faustain Economics. I'm not sure what the biological or evolutionary purpose of our arrogance is, but we certainly are using everything to excess. I don't think we have to worry about the world taking us out though. As you said meterors could drop from the sky and wipe us out like the dinosaurs.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you about how crazy it is when we compare how long we have existed with the age of the earth, and when you say how the human extinction rate is increasing. what would be really good is if there were connections between how helping ourselves get better would in turn have benefits for the earth.
ReplyDeleteI really like your title to this blog post, it really caught my attention. I thought George Carlin was hilarious and at the same time, hilarious.
ReplyDeleteI don't necessarily think that we need to decrease our death rate. In fact, doing such would only increase our harm on the environment. But yes, I do agree that we should change ourselves first in order to then change the place in which we live.
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