Human Activity on the Earth: Helping or Harming?

[Topic #29; front page, 2nd column, 2nd to last from the bottom]

     There has always been discussion over whether or not our actions on this planet have had any significant impact on it. Are we damaging the planet; are we destroying the planet; are we helping the planet? These are just some of the questions posed by the people of Earth. In my honest and true opinion, I feel that we aren't doing a single thing to this planet that would severely cripple or ultimately destroy the planet. Why is that? Look at it this way: this planet has been here for billions of years for all we know and has survived every natural and artificial disaster that has occured throughout the substantially long time it has existed. What makes us think that we are impacting this great planet just from around a few hundred years or so of pollution and human intervention?


For now, I'll leave it at this with a quote from a person I think was pretty brilliant:
     "The planet has been through a lot worse than us. 'Been through earthquakes; volcanoes; plate tectonics; continental drift; solar flares; sunspots; magnetic storms; the magnetic reversal of the poles; hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment from comets and asteroids and meteors; worldwide floods; tidal waves; worldwide fires; erosion; cosmic rays; recurring ice ages; and we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn't going anywhere... We are!"- George Carlin