George Carlin on saving the planet

By Sunday December 13, 2009

Heard on tonight’s No Agenda and reposting here.



46 Comments
  1. Sagrilarus says:
    12/14/2009 at 9:18 am

    The most memorable quote from Carlin for me, from all of his material, is in that clip. “Someday the Earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas” is a humbling proposition, and rightly focuses the mind — we’re “saving the planet” for ourselves. The altruistic stuff is BS. When it stops being about joining hands and singing together we’ll get down to business and decide where our priorities lie.

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  2. GetSmart says:
    12/14/2009 at 11:03 am

    Hey Fermi! We’re working on the final solution to the Drake Equation! There may not be a paradox after all!

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  3. FRAGaLOT says:
    12/14/2009 at 3:26 pm

    #35 ECA
    WE/HUMANS have already decimated over 1/2 the animal population on this planet. IMHO we have killed off over 3/4 of ALL animal life and replaced it, With ourselves.
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    Umm.. no. Then there wouldn’t be enough livestock left to support the population we have now. It’s just like the timber industry. People claim they are clear cutting forests and we are losing trees left and right, but the fact is they replant more trees than they chop down.

    Same with lifestock and animal farms. That’s the basics of the ecosystem cycle on this planet. A species can’t be supported by a smaller population that it consumes. There are more animals then there are people. There are more insects than animals, there are more plants than anything else.

    Plus environmentalist are also complaining about all the livestock farts/burping because there is TOO MUCH livestock emitting CO2.

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  4. clancys_daddy says:
    12/14/2009 at 3:56 pm

    #35 I am going to have to assume either 1 you flunked basic biology, or 2 you have no grasp what so ever of basic evolution, or three they don’t teach evolution in your school, or teach a watered down PC version (most likely) 99.9% of all species died (became extinct) prior to the advent of humans. Mass extinctions have resulted in the narrowing of phyla. ie life was more diverse in the beginning (see cambrian explosion) than when humans arose and began to gather and change their local environment. Simple rule of ecology, a mass die off creates a multitude of niches to be filled. Life will go on even if we take thousands of species with us (not bloody likely, and if it did it opens up a large area for future evolutionary species to incorporate themselves into, creating new species. Suggested reading assignment anything by Charles Darwin, Steven Jay Gould, or E.O Wilson.

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  5. Uncle Patso says:
    12/14/2009 at 8:32 pm

    Is it time to change the name of the blog to “Climate Change Debunked While You Wait” yet?

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  6. soundwash says:
    12/15/2009 at 10:51 am

    wow… i really miss Carlin. He was practically the only voice of reason left in a choir of complete, ignorant, fluffy lunacy.

    The perfect guy for a reality check.

    -s

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