Monday, April 13, 2009

George Carlin on Saving The Planet

Some trenchant excerpts from comedian George Carlin [Hat tip Mark Perry]...

``Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It’s arrogant meddling. It’s what got us here in the first place. Doesn’t everybody understand? Interfering with Nature”

``We’re so self-important. Everybody’s gotta save something else…and the greatest arrogance of all is save the planet. What? What is this @#$%^ people kidding me? Save the planet when we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet! We haven’t learned to care for one another, we’re gonna save the@#$%^ planet? I am getting tired of that %^&#!

``I am tired of the @#$%^ earth day, I am tired of this self-righteous environmentalists, this white bourgeois liberals who think that the only thing wrong with this planet is that there isn’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos.

``Besides, environmentalists don’t give a $%^& about the planet, they don’t care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they are interest in? A clean place to live. Their own Habitat. They’re worried that someday that they’d be personally inconvenienced. Narrow unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me. Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet.

``...there is nothing wrong with the planet, the planet is fine, the people are @#$%^&! Difference…compared to the people the planet is doing great. It has been here for 4 ½ billion years…

``We’ve been only engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200 years…200 year versus 4 ½ billion, and we have the conceit to think that somehow we are a threat, that somehow we’ll put in jeopardy….

``The planet has been through a lot worst than us…earthquakes, volcanoes, quake tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal wave, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring high stages….and we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference???!!!

``The planet will be here for a long long looonngg time after we’re gone, and will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, because that is what it does, it is a self correcting system…



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