AES35 The Point of No Return

Every Environmental Conservation organizations all have the same slogan;

“Save the Planet”

As if we humans have the power to destroy it…

The Earth is 4.543 billions of years old. It has been through a helluva lot more than us.

This is not the issue here, the actual planet itself will be fine, it’s ourselves we have to worry about, and every other life form that shares the Earth with us.

We are in deep trouble, and soon we may find ourselves in the point of no return, nothing we can do will reverse the damage we have caused, and future generations will have to pay the heavy price.

“Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet! We haven’t learned to care for one another and we’re going to save the planet?, the planet is fine… the people are f****d.” -George Carlin-

Say we destroy ourselves, a nuclear war that unleashes the full arsenal of bombs we have at our fingertips, it still wouldn’t destroy the planet. It’ll definitely kill most of us though, and probably plunge the world into a nuclear winter that mutates life on earth significantly. But, with time, it’ll pass, just another hiccup in Earth’s long history.

If we screw up enough, we could make the weather uninhabitable for complex forms of life, another ice age perhaps, or a toxic atmosphere like the one in Venus. Life would be forced to hide in the cracks, and by waiting millions of years, come out and start the evolution process all over again.

In a cosmological time frame, we are nothing, a millisecond that’s gone too fast for it to notice. A young species of primates that had potential, but gone in a couple hundred thousand years, doomed by its arrogance and ignorance. A shame, but there can always be more, let's hope they’ll be smarter.

The planet doesn’t need saving, but we might have the power to save ourselves.