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George Carlin - Saving the Planet
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George Carlin - Saving the Planet
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- You have got people like this around you. Countries are full of them now.
- People walking around all day long very minute of the day.
- Worried about everything.
- Worried about the air, worried about the water, worried about the soil
- Worried about insecticides, pesticides food aditives, carcinogens
- Worried abour radon and gas, worried about asbestos
- Worried about saving engangered species
- Let me tell you about engangered species, allright
- Saving engangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humas to control nature
- It is arrogant medling
- It is what got is what got is in trabble in the first place
- Doesn't anybody understand that?
- Interfeering with nature
- Over 90% way over 90% of all the species that have ever lived on this planet are gone
- They are extinct
- We didn't kill them all
- They just disapeared
- That is what nature does
- The disapeare these days at the rate of 25 a day
- And I mean regardless of our behaviour
- Irespective of how we act on this planet
- 25 species that were here today will be gone tomorow
- Let them go gracefully
- Leave nature alone
- Haven't we done enought?
- We are so selfimportant
- So selfimportant
- Everybody is gonna save something now
- Save the trees
- Save the bees
- Save the whales
- Save those snails
- And the greatest arrogance of all:
- Save the planet
- What? Are these fucking people kidding me?
- Save the planet?
- We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet.
- We haven’t learned how to care for one another, we’re gonna save the fucking planet?
- I’m getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit.
- I’m tired of fucking Earth Day,
- I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists,
- these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths.
- People trying to make the world save for their Volvos.
- Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet.
- They don’t care about the planet.
- Not in the abstract they don’t.
- Not in the abstract they don’t.
- You know what they’re interested in?
- A clean place to live.
- Their own habitat.
- They’re worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced.
- Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.
- Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet.
- Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine.
- The PEOPLE are fucked.
- Difference. Difference.
- The planet is fine.
- Compared to the people, the planet is doing great.
- Been here four and a half billion years.
- Did you ever think about the arithmetic?
- The planet has been here four and a half billion years.
- We’ve been here, what, a hundred thousand?
- Maybe two hundred thousand?
- And we’ve only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years.
- Two hundred years versus four and a half billion.
- And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we’re a threat?
- That somehow we’re gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that’s just a-floatin’ around the sun?
- The planet has been through a lot worse than us.
- Been through all kinds of things worse than us.
- Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift,
- solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles
- hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors,
- worlwide 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…the planet…
- the planet isn’t going anywhere. WE ARE!
- We’re going away.
- Pack your shit, folks.
- We’re going away.
- And we won’t leave much of a trace, either.
- Thank God for that.
- Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe.
- A little styrofoam.
- The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone.
- Just another failed mutation.
- Just another closed-end biological mistake.
- An evolutionary cul-de-sac.
- The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.
- A surface nuisance.
- You wanna know how the planet’s doing?
- Ask those people at Pompeii, who are frozen into position
- from volcanic ash, how the planet’s doing.
- You wanna know if the planet’s all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia
- or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble
- if they feel like a threat to the planet this week.
- Or how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, .
- and then wonder why they have lava in the living room
- The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone,
- and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does.
- It’s a self-correcting system.
- The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed,
- and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable,
- well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm:
- the earth plus plastic.
- The earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic.
- Plastic came out of the earth.
- The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children.
- Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place.
- It wanted plastic for itself.
- Didn’t know how to make it.
- Needed us.
- Could be the answer to our age-old philosophical question, “Why are we here?”
- Plastic…assholes.
- So, the plastic is here, our job is done, we can be phased out now.
- And I think that’s started already. Don’t you?
- I mean, to be fair, the planet sees us as a mild threat.
- Something to be dealt with.
- And the planet can defend itself in an matter like a large organism
- like a beehive or an ant colony can. A collective defense mechanism.
- I am sure the planet will think of something.
- What would you do if you were the planet? Trying to defend yourself against this troublesome, pesky species?
- Let’s see… Viruses.
- Viruses might be good.
- They seem vulnerable to viruses.
- And, uh…viruses are tricky, always mutating
- and forming new strains whenever a vaccine is developed.
- Perhaps, this first virus could be one that compromises the immune system of these creatures.
- Perhaps a human immunodeficiency virus, making them vulnerable to all sorts of other diseases and infections that might come along.
- And maybe it could be spread sexually,
- making them a little reluctant to engage in the act of reproduction.
- Well, that’s a poetic note. And it’s a start.
- And I can dream, can’t I?
- See I don’t worry about the little things: bees, trees, whales, snails.
- I think we’re part of a greater wisdom than we will ever understand.
- A higher order. Call it what you want.
- Know what I call it?
- The Big Electron. The Big Electron…
- whoooa. Whoooa. Whoooa.
- It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all.
- It just is. And so are we. For a little while.
- Thanks for being with me for a little while tonight
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