Comments on: "This Fragile Earth"

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:06:12 +0000

this is a incredibly good article, thank you, so much, the earth is incredibly strong, science channel make it sound weak, thats stupid…

By: Trust the Future « in over your head

Trust the Future « in over your head — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:32:50 +0000

[...] long time ago I talked about how the myth of the fragile Earth is doing nothing but hurting the environmental movement. They think “ZOMG, what will the [...]

By: Blork

Blork — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:57:58 +0000

“American Scholar” magazine (hey, I read ‘em all, folks) had a good story about this in their summer 2010 issue. (Cover story: “The Earth Doesn’t Care if You Drive a Hybrid”) The jist of it is that the earth is not delicate. It’s been around for a few billion years and has survived much worse than human habitation. That doesn’t mean pollution and global warming are not a problem; it means it is a problem FOR US HUMANS, but not for the planet itself.

By: Michael Bigger

Michael Bigger — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:45:34 +0000

ROFLMAO!

By: Wildbird

Wildbird — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:41:10 +0000

THE FRAGILE EARTH and the DELICATE BALANCE OF NATURE are the biggist lies ever perpatiated on anyone and next time you see some wackos with those dumb THE EARTH IS YOUR MOTHER bumper stickers just roll-down your car window spit on the ground and tell them HEY IM SPITTING ON YOUR MOTHER YOU TREE HUGGING GRANOLA MUNCHING GREEN NUTS

By: brad

brad — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:31:24 +0000

“fragile earth” is hyperbole. duh. but we’re still screwing her over.

By: Flashmobs et TVA

Flashmobs et TVA — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:02:46 +0000

[...] Billets/Posts: Entrevue avec Philippe Martin This Fragile Earth Wants and Needs [...]

By: jason

jason — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:33:10 +0000

the earth is fine, it has another billion years to get over the pollution we’ve dumped on her

it’s ability to sustain our human ingrate asses is what’s diminishing by the second

let’s get real

By: RB

RB — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:20:24 +0000

The Wall of China is not visible from space. A widely-believed myth, but a myth nonetheless.

By: xaintes

xaintes — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:54:29 +0000

Hear! Hear!

By: Moses

Moses — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:24:19 +0000

Cockroaches indeed.

The “great” British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane was asked, “Tell me, Mr. Haldane, knowing what you do about nature, what can you tell me about God?”
Haldane replied, “He has an inordinate fondness for beetles.”

I was nodding with the points you made about the myths of the environmental movement, but your point about the professed nobility of environmentalism really lit a bulb over my head. The budding marketing consultant in me piped up: “If only they could be honest and appeal to the baser, selfish instincts of their audience, they’d get more support.”