Earth A.D

[inside the sun]

we have a beautiful planet. We aren't going anywhere else. We should take care of it, we will probably never find a planet like this one. How ridiculus is that to think that we can just hop from planet to planet after we destroy and use this one's resources?

[cwes99_03]

I believe the idea would be to find another planet as good as this one (how long would it take to determine if that planet is as good as this one?) and then to make so many laws and rules on how to live there that we couldn't ruin it.
(Not possible for man to do in my opinion. As long as there are laws, there will be those who bend and break them.)

[inside the sun]

but thats the point. We can't just hope for a new and better one and make laws for that one, it's like my gf. She knows shes getting laser eye surgery so she isn't taking care of the eyes she has now.

[armofreek]

i think it's because were all so fascinated by the mega advanced technology in movies and tv. we overestimate ourselves, and our technology and i think it's going to be the end of us. and even if we were able to create some sort of way out, we could never EVER pull 6,000,000,000+ people off of a dieing planet. were doomed!

[jkellmd]

Originally Posted by armofreek

...we could never EVER pull 6,000,000,000+ people off of a dieing planet. were doomed!

Good point. Who gets a ride to Utopia?

[inside the sun]

thats the whole point. we don't leave. we keep this one in good shape, we're never going to find anything better than this

[Loricybin]

we are a society based around destruction and manipulation.
with the trashing we've already begun, and the enormous amounts of peop;e who just don't give a rat's ass, we are definitely doomed.

plus, the regulation of natural consciousness expansion, even if that miraculous discovery was made, and we somehow got the majority of humans transported, we would just screw up the next planet.

it would be like saying, "if i had a hundred dollars i could eat lunch every day for several days"

but then you get a hundred bucks and its gone in a day and you come home with lava lamps and books and candy bars and a thousand bouncey balls.


we would go nuts and fuck up again for sure, thinking we could never do exactly what we are doing.

[Drip Curl Magic]

Originally Posted by Loricybin

but then you get a hundred bucks and its gone in a day and you come home with lava lamps and books and candy bars and a thousand bouncey balls.

That's definately something I would do.

[CraigD]

Originally Posted by inside the sun

… after we destroy and use this one's resources?

I think it’s the height of human arrogance to suppose we can have a significant, lasting impact on the planet. Compared to large volcanoes, global fires, ice ages, and asteroid collisions, we humans are humblingly insignificant.

We humans have a proven talent for making the earth a difficult place to survive for any organism large enough for us to see and slow-reproducing enough to eradicate, however, including, possibly, ourselves, either through outright killing, or habitat damaging. Even if we don’t completely kill off other animals or ourselves, we can make our lives miserable, a thing we should clearly strive to avoid. Pleasant animals don’t foul their living spaces.

Speaking of asteroid impacts… they’re a good, if remote reason we might want for some of us to live somewhere other than mother Earth. “Not putting all of you eggs in one basket” is a sound bit of folk advice.

[inside the sun]

That's definately something I would do.

haha same here