abby now wrote:
> Sure we're supposed to care for the earth, but I and many believe that this
> earth will soon pass away - whether there's global warming or not.
I disagree on both points. First, Earth is not 'ours' to 'care for' --
what we must do is live on it sustainably without fucking it up too
badly, and it will take care of itself, as it has done for the last four
and a half billion years. If anything, we need to allow *it* to take
care of *us*, by showing us how to live in harmony with the biosphere
instead of in conflict with it.
And it is not likely that the planet will 'pass away' until the Sun
becomes a red giant billions of years from now. We might fuck it up
really badly. We might destroy most of the life on it. We might destroy
*ourselves* and all we have built. But the planet will go on. It was
here a hell of a long time before we were, and it will still be here a
hell of a long time after we go.
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