WHY ARE WE HERE? PLASTIC…..

 

“We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!

We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

Plastic… asshole.”
George Carlin

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ragman
ragman

I never appreciated Carlin while he was alive. I knew he was a comedian but basically ignored him. Thanks to admin, I discovered that he was one of us. His mind was focused and his vitriol for govt is laser sharp. Always enjoy these posts. Happy New Year!

AWD

Plastic? WTF?

Ryan
Ryan

LOL, Carlin is the best. However, my response to him would be, why do we have to take down everything else in our paths too? Can’t we live with some dignity and quit polluting everything in our wake. We’re supposed to be so intelligent….

The rapid loss of species we are seeing today is estimated by experts to be between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate.*

These experts calculate that between 0.01 and 0.1% of all species will become extinct each year.

If the low estimate of the number of species out there is true – i.e. that there are around 2 million different species on our planet** – then that means between 200 and 2,000 extinctions occur every year.

But if the upper estimate of species numbers is true – that there are 100 million different species co-existing with us on our planet – then between 10,000 and 100,000 species are becoming extinct each year.

Stucky

Bad Plastic
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Good Plastic
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bruce
bruce

Why are we here? Probably by error or as an insignificant collateral artifact arising from the creation of the universe. I mean does it make sense that a species that makes bankers, Islams, inner city gangs, places like Detroit or Washington DC, wars, crack heads, the FSA, pollution, the IRS, Democrats and Republicans, rap music and billions upon billions of morons be created on purpose?

Mr. Chen
Mr. Chen

That supposed ‘good plastic’ is atrocious. Only a 5 foot male of with masochistic domination dreams would find that tranny attractive.

Mr. Chen
Mr. Chen

I meant no offense, Stuck but I believe that is the obverse of Iska’s thong pic. Take a closer look, you’ll see his micropenis.

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