The lie about “saving the planet”
- Filed under: Solar Power and Off-Grid Living
- Date: Jun 25,2008
Somehow my Solar Investigation has led me to want to be more self sufficient and to help the planet by not destroying all of it’s resources. Using less fossil fuels, polluting less, being “green” in general are all things i’ve been slowly adopting. I recently watched a documentary from BBC called “The Power of the Planet” which was all about the evolution of earth and how we came to be here.
Although it was not the point of this documentary, I came to a very unexpected conclusion by watching this. The planet is not in danger, we are not killing it at all. If anything, we’re artificially creating things that the earth has been dealing with since the beginning of time. It’s not the planet that is in danger, it’s the human race.
Yes we’re depleting earth’s Oil resources, yes we’re spewing tons of toxic chemicals into the atmosphere, and yes the earth is warming up.
However these are all parts of the natural process of earth. The earth will make more oil, the toxic chemicals that we’re putting in the air is what originally CREATED our atmosphere (Volcanoes throwing tons of Co2 and other substances into the air for millions of years), and the earth has always changed from between an ice age and the planet we know now. Technically, we’ve just finished an ice age. It’s no wonder the whole planet it warming up.
In conclusion, lets not be high and mighty and pretend we’re trying to “Save the Planet”. Lets face it, it’s man kind we want to save. There’s very little us humans can do to REALLY hurt the planet. Anything we do the earth can fix it a couple million years. To us that’s forever, for the earth a million years is nothing. All we’re doing is hurting ourselves and destroying the things that WE NEED to continue existing on earth. Don’t save the planet, SAVE US !
