Comments on: What is nature (worth)? https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/07/what-is-nature-worth/ Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:54:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Alan https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/07/what-is-nature-worth/#comment-527699 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:54:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/07/what-is-nature-worth/#comment-527699 Save Nature? – “Save the planet? We haven’t even learned how to look after each other and we’re going to sane the planet?….Besides there’s nothing wrong with the planet, the planet is fine, the PEOPLE are fucked. The planet isn’t going anywhere, we are! Pack your shit folks we’re going away and we won’t leave much of a trace, maybe a little styrofoam.

The planet will be here and we will be long gone, just another failed mutation, an evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas…

Do the arithmetic…We’ve been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200yrs, the planet has been here for 4 1/2 billion years and we have the conciet to think we are a threat, that somehow we are putting in jepordy this beautiful blue-green ball that’s just’a floating around the sun…The planet isn’t going anywhere, WE are!”

– George Carlin.

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