re: #56 Targetpractice

Yeah, it’s rather the height of hubris to believe that the Earth gives a fig about us. If tomorrow, every last human on the planet dropped dead, the Earth wouldn’t just stop spinning and life cease to be. No more than it stops for a single man’s death, the death of humanity wouldn’t be more than a blip in the course of galactic history. In another 6,000 years, you’d be hard-pressed to prove that humanity had ever existed at all, every trace of the modern world buried like every other dead civilization.

Now thinking of this line in Jurassic Park, the book that is.

No, you don’t understand. The planet is not in danger. We are in danger. We don’t have the power to destroy life on Earth. We don’t have the power to save it either. We might have the power to save ourselves.