COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
"Killing the
planet'?
Language just doesn't come more absurd than that.
Our planet is just a huge mass of stone and metal hurtling
through space.
Water from passing comets over the eons has given it oceans
and lakes.
It is likely that of the almost certainly millions of such
planets in the universe, some, by one means or another, reach a point of no
longer supporting life.
But even that may be a stretch.
The life-force is just so powerful. It was noticed about two
or three weeks after the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima that weeds began to
poke up in the cracks in the pavement.
And earth has had a number of extinctions, but it is still
teeming with life.
The green extremists are just a new form of religion, and
anyone who refers to "killing the planet" is a green extremist.
Please, it has never been nice or even civil to toss garbage
around, but that has nothing to do with planetary survival, whatever that is.
