Naive impressionable minds fall for this crap. What's more important than saving the world?
Reminds me of the late, great professor George Carlin, who delivered the greatest tirade of all time on this subject:
"We're so self-important. Everybody's gotta save something ... And the greatest arrogance of all: 'save the planet.' What? Are these f**king people kidding me? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet...we're gonna save the f**king planet?
I'm tired of f**king Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, I'm tired of these white bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren't enough bicycle paths ... they don't give a shit about the planet ... not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A
clean place to live. Their
own personal habitat. They're worried that someday, sometime in the future,
they might be
personally inconvenienced. ... There is nothing
wrong with the planet. The planet is
fine. The
people are f**ked. Compared to the people, the planet is doing
great. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what...maybe two-hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And somehow we have the conceit to think that we're a threat? That somehow we're going to put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue and green ball that's floating around the sun?"
"The planet has been through all kinds of things a lot worse than us. It's been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sunspots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and meteors and asteroids, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages, and we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference?"