this is so funny!!!!

Yeah, because what has the earth ever done for you anyway (except give you a home and food)?

The earth has taken good care of us. In return, we need to make sure she is also taken care of.

 

The earth doesn't "take care" of us. We take care of ourselves, using the materials available on the earth. It's a big rock. It's not alive.

 

I hate the word "priviledge" and I agree with what you had to say about it

 

debatable....a healthy dose of mushrooms will clear this right up for ya

 

Oh, since earth is "only" a big rock, and it isn't alive, what is stopping us from living freely on the moon?

 

The Earth is a living being in it self.

 

haha...good one. it ain't hardly just a big rock. it's an ecosystem & if we screw it up enough we it won't support us.

 

amazing point.

 

Amazing point? It's a ridiculous "point". The moon is uninhabitable because it does not have the right conditions to support life. The earth does. But it's the life, not the earth, that is important. The life is the play; the earth is just the stage.

 

You cant have life with out the Earth. The Earth provides us with the ingredients for life, the oxygen, the carbon dioxide, the nitrogen, carbon, yada yada yada.

 

how would we have a play if there were no stage?

 

You wouldn't. But the stage doesn't write, cast, or direct the play. It just provides a place to put it on.

I'm not saying we don't need the earth -- clearly we do. But the earth and the life on it are two separate things. One is alive (collectively), one isn't.

 

what would a play be without a set, props, and costumes?

i suppose its just a fundamental difference in belief...i think the earth is in fact an organism, maybe not a sentient, conscious being, but alive in the same sense that a plant is alive.

 

perhaps we should be considering the next 7 generations when we do or don't do something against the earth...what will be left for our children's children?

 

But you forget, we're supposed to stop having children. To preserve the earth for future generations.