 wildcat says: Despite its many flaws, I’m a big fan of human civilization. I marvel at our capacity to organize matter and information, at our ability to learn from mistakes and pass that learning down to subsequent generations. Civilization—writing, cities, trade, the whole lot of it—makes us unique on this planet and, as far as we can tell so far, in our part of the universe. We'll may wipe ourselves out, and make the environment uninhabitable to us, but other life survives in the most extreme of conditions, and will continue. As he correctly states, Earth is going nowhere. It will eventually "reset" itself by finding its natural balance & rhythms once again. if earth explodes, we just ascend  Ascend...Wha...? I'm thinking our responsibility for other living things going extinct still matters. if by earth he means a rock in space, then yes, no shit it'll survive. there are others, however, who tend to think of the earth as that rock AND as its inhabitants (single cell organisms to algae to ferns and earth worms to humans to redwoods to blue whales, etc.) and goings ons (sun hitting it, soil, weather patterns, hurricanes and volcanoes, ocean currents) . two conceptions of what earth is (many definitons: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/earth no one of which is more right than the other), the smaller inhabitants reshape the planet the rock (and live lives around such which in turn shape them), so it is difficult for me to see them as entirely separable. so called dead rock and lif... Yes, but what happened in the past was out of our control. |
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