I just listened to Bill McKibben and agree with him 100%. Here is what I have to say about today’s world that we live in,“The worst thing that ever happened to planet earth was the inception of the human species.”

I wouldn’t agree with that. The earth has been pounded by huge asteroids, and soaked by the spewing ashes of megavolcanos. In the end, mother earth has a lot more time than we do. Humans are their own worst enemy. We will drive ourselves into extinction, another species will take our place, and earth will move on. We may or may not turn the earth into another Venus, but in the end, the earth will continue on it’s path around the sun, and the sun will continue its travels through the universe.

wb6dzb - 24 June 2010 02:29 PM

I just listened to Bill McKibben and agree with him 100%. Here is what I have to say about today’s world that we live in,“The worst thing that ever happened to planet earth was the inception of the human species.”

I think carrot, corn, spinach, broccoli, watermelon, and tens of dog breeds and other man-made animals and plants would disagree with you.

Evidently you are both too young to know the effects of humans on this earth. That’s a shame because there is a lot to learn about what humans are doing to this planet. I speak not only from what I have learned, but also from many years of experience traveling around the world to all seven continents. Some more than just once and I have also visited (about seven times) almost all the countries of Europe.
The person that wrote the comparisons of spinach, broccoli etc., is way out of the ballpark and doesn’t make any sense at all.
The other reply stating that the sun will continue its travels through the universe is most likely true except earth and all of our solar system’s planets will eventually be swallowed up by a much larger and hotter sun.
In the same reply. It is true that the earth was pounded as you say by asteroids etc., but at that time there is a big difference from then and now. That difference is that no life is known to have yet evolved on earth.
But you are very correct by stating that humans are their own worst enemy. That statement alone pretty well sums up what I’m talking about.

wb6dzb - 24 June 2010 08:46 PM

Evidently you are both too young to know the effects of humans on this earth. That’s a shame because there is a lot to learn about what humans are doing to this planet. I speak not only from what I have learned, but also from many years of experience traveling around the world to all seven continents. Some more than just once and I have also visited (about seven times) almost all the countries of Europe.
The person that wrote the comparisons of spinach, broccoli etc., is way out of the ballpark and doesn’t make any sense at all.
The other reply stating that the sun will continue its travels through the universe is most likely true except earth and all of our solar system’s planets will eventually be swallowed up by a much larger and hotter sun.
In the same reply. It is true that the earth was pounded as you say by asteroids etc., but at that time there is a big difference from then and now. That difference is that no life is known to have yet evolved on earth.
But you are very correct by stating that humans are their own worst enemy. That statement alone pretty well sums up what I’m talking about.

Thank you very much for calling me ‘young’  I am quite probably older than you and as well traveled. Yes, I know that the earth will travel around the sun obliviously until it is swallowed by a dying sun. Not sure what you mean by saying “no life is known to have yet evolved on earth”. We are here, we have evolved here on the earth. Yes we are our own worst enemy, but the earth will continue along its path, whether we are on it or not. By changing our lifestyles to reign in global warming, we will preserving the earth as a place where we can survive as a species, the earth doesn’t give a damn, it has been through extinctions many times in the past, and will continue on its merry way.

wb6dzb - 24 June 2010 08:46 PM

The person that wrote the comparisons of spinach, broccoli etc., is way out of the ballpark and doesn’t make any sense at all.

Sure, from the perspective of a dodo, for example, that person (that would be I ) is indeed out of the ballpark, but in my opinion and that of a carrot (if it could form an opinion) you’re wrong.

Hey George,
  I got what you were trying to say  

If it don’t make sense might I suggest Michael Pollan’s - The Botany of Desire, for a bit of background.

That looks like a fun book, CC. I think I’ll have a look at it. Thanks.