This guy gets it!
The problem is that the world doesn't need saving. We need saving.
Global warming might melt ice caps, create more extreme weather patterns more often, result in regional crop failures, alter ocean currents, disrupt migrations and inundate coastal cities (in fact, it's already doing much of that); loss of biodiversity might cause ecosystems to collapse, and threaten us with the loss with potentially beneficial plants and animals, but neither of those will destroy the planet.
No, these are problems we face, and that we've brought upon ourselves (mostly by ignoring them, and laughing at those who first broached them). So, when you hear someone say, "Save the planet" this weekend, what they're really saying is, "Save the people."
http://www.themorningsun.com/stories/042106/loc_eric001.shtml
Posted by Dave at April 21, 2006 02:28 PM