The Planet Doesn't Need Saving - We Do

Well we’ve certainly made a mess of things.

Jihad, global warming, mass extinctions, Donald Trump, widespread poverty, disease, unstable world financial markets, Donald Trump.

Our infrastructure, our very existence, is exquisitely vulnerable to self made and existential threat - emotional isolationism, worldwide conflict, solar mass ejections, massive asteroids, heated up supercharged weather, drought, worldwide crop failure, volcanism, and yes, Donald Trump.

The environmentalists tells us we must save the world.

The conservatives tell us we must conquer the world.

The wealthy tell us we must use the world – up.

Donald Trump tells us he is the world.

Ha! They’re all wrong! And George Carlin was right.

We can't do the world any lasting harm - the earth has been around for 5 billion years and seen much worse than us. At the rate we're going it's only a matter of time until it wipes itself clean of us and just keeps on keeping on as it always has - with us becoming the tiniest of tiny footnotes in its long history.

We can continue to delude ourselves into thinking we must save the world, or the world is for conquest, or ‘wealth’, or a playing field for egocentric nonsense. Save the world? The world doesn’t need saving folks. We do.

Intellectually, ethically, spiritually we must fundamentally change or we aren't going to make it.

Either way the world will be just fine.