Well, here we are again: Earth Day. When a bunch of tree-hugging imbeciles suffering from Cosmic Napolean Complexes showcase their delusions of global-impacting grandeur.
Hey, Hippies, if you want to skip baths, stroll around barefoot and smoke weed while looking for trees (or whales) to hump, that's fine. But stop trying to convince me it will amount to anything. Moreover, please stop declaring our planet "Mother Earth". Did the Earth uncomfortably carry you around for nine months, then go through intense pain to squeeze you out an opening that on first inspection seemed woefully small for the task?
Do you call your house, Mother House? Do you call you state, Mother State? Just because you live on this planet (and trust me, I am not thrilled about you being here) doesn't make the Earth your parent. I'd bet money if the Earth were a living thing (instead of being covered with them) it would be quite embarrassed by you. It wouldn't put your picture out for the other planets to see. It wouldn't brag about you at galactic bingo. It'd talk about your successful corporate brother- the one with the big Audi, expensive suits and key to the executive washroom.
Stop calling it "Mother Earth". It's an insult to your own mother. Who has her own holiday.
I refuse to celebrate "Earth Day". Instead, I'm going to celebrate "Jelly Bean Day". Makes more sense.
Don't get me wrong, I live here on the Earth, and like the crying indian of the '70s, I'm all against pollution. Because I don't like to see or smell it. But I fully realize that we humans are about as threatening to the earth as a grain of sand is to the moon.
Think about it- assuming you can put down the weed long enough for your brain cells to fire up again. The Earth is 12,000 miles in diameter. It is believed to weigh 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. I say believed, because there isn't a scale big enough to really weigh the Earth.
In comparison, the average human is between 5 and 6 feet tall- basically 1/1000 of a mile. The average human weighs between 54 and 73 kg. Assuming the numbers are right, there are 6,816,300,000 people in the world. That's about 436,243,200,000 kg (average weight of 64 kg X population). Or 1/13,693,279,355,099 of the Earth's mass. That's right. All of mankind is about 13 trillionths the size of Earth. But we can affect the Earth. Riiiiiiiight.
Let's hold off on the argument about whether people can affect the Earth for a minute. Let's look at some other hippie causes in the past.
Communism. Karl Marx invented it- the preferred hippy form of government, where everyone is treated equally, no one is expected to excel, and no one gets to own anything. The Russians put it to practical use- forming the Soviet Union. I'm sorry, the FORMER Soviet Union. Hitler tried using the watered-down form of socialism, Nazism. Didn't work so swell for him, or Germany, either. B. Hussein Obama is trying Socialism in the U.S. right now. And his approval rating is plummeting daily.
Saving the rainforest. Funny how in the 1970s, they were predicting Brazil would be a desert by now. Funnier still that archaeologists have since discovered that the Amazon wasn't always a thick jungle. There was actually a civilization there with canals, roads and huge tracts of clear cut areas for farming.
Saving the Whales. Spend boo-coo bucks on an Earth-friendly ship and try to use it to block Japanese whalers. Result: the whalers rammed the boat, knocking a large portion of it off and sinking it. Whaling continues. And so do the whales, coincidentally.
See, the hippy track record just doesn't impress me. There are no successes. And since I know the Earth isn't my mother- more of where I keep my stuff- I'm not too concerned about going green. In fact, my answer to all this Earth Day nonsense is:
Revelations 21:1 "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."
That's right- the ultimate recycling. After Judgement Day, God is going to recycle the Earth, providing us a fresh, new clean, and hopefully, hippy-free world to live on.
So hippies, have some Jelly Beans and shut up allready.
Firstly, how can you measure the impact humans have on the earth based on our height and weight!!!? I think you may be the one who is smoking the crack pipe. Did you even consider the amount of trash each human puts into the earth? Or the amount of noxious CO2 chemicals emitted from our millions of cars? Or the smoke and other filthy chemicals being pumped into the air from the countless factories and power plants all around the world? The earth is strong, it can handle our weight. But the various complex ecosystems on earth are growing weaker and weaker because of humans- our litter, deforestation, use of fossil fuels, and pollution- the pollution of the water we drink, the air we breath, and the soil we tread upon daily. Every ecosystem is fragile enough as it is, humans are impacting these ecosystems negatively, and when one part is removed or many animals go extinct, the whole puzzle falls apart. This could have dire effects on humans, and extremely dire effects on the plants and animals in our world. And as the Bible says, from the beginning, God says everything was good before we were on the earth. (Gen 1:10) God doesn’t need us to make his creation good. It already was. Also. Just because God will make a second heaven and earth doesn’t mean we should trash it. God created it. He doesn’t want it trashed. If he spent 5 days making the earth, and one on us, what do you that says about the earth? And Colossians 1:15-16 says “The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. ” So put that in your crack-pipe and smoke it. God Bless!
Uh, well… the same way you measure bullets’ impact. The larger the bullet, the more impact. So you little girl man, unlock your lips from that tree and think about it. If you way 98 lbs, and I’m 315, I breathe more than you, which means I exhale more evil carbon dioxide than you. So I do have more of an impact than any pencil-necked geek. And that means an elephant has more of an impact than a person.
But even if we added up the billions of people we don’t amount to a hill of beans. We’re microscopic specks on the basketball of Earth. We don’t affect anything. We’re specks!
“troglodad” that response was pretty weak. you didn’t even acknowledge the arguments and Bible verses that person posted. and just because a person is bigger, doesn’t mean they drive bigger cars, pollute the earth more, or litter more. and when 6.8 BILLION people cutting dowwn trees, building factories, driving cars, polluting….we definetly have an impact on the earth!
Does an ant have any impact on an elephant? Does an ant have any affect on an aircraft carrier? The point is the treehuggers have no concept of how big our planet really is.
THE SIZE OF THE EARTH DOESN’T MATTER!! Humans (all 6.8 billion+ of us) are destroying the earth, and there is no denying it! Are you really that stupid? Can you not read? The size of the person doesn’t matter, neither does the size of the planet!! We are consuming fossil fuels and burning them like CRAZY. Are you that ignorant? Goodbye Troglodyte!
Goodbye, Jear Bear.