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  Earth is stronger than humans, period

  The moon and Mars look as they do due to a lack of several things, including thick atmostpheres, strong electromagnetic fields, and geologic activity.  Falling short of planet-destroying doomsday devices, humans would never be able to do that to the Earth.

  And no, we would never be able to destroy the Earth, or its environment.  To think that we could is the height of our arrogance.  We can be crushed at its slightest whim, and any damage we do to it will be repaired, and much more quickly than we could imagine.  

  Take one look at one of humanity's biggest 'weapons' against the environment, nuclear waste.  After the incident at Chernobyl, scientists figured it would never grow back to the way it was, but it's actually come back at an astonishing rate.  As a matter of fact, it's more healthy now than some of the surrounding areas, a haven for surprisingly strong populations of several species at varying levels of endangerment.

  The bottom line is we have done very little damage to the Earth that it would not have done to itself.  I won't go into the details, but volcanoes are much more destructive towards the environment than humans.  More so than we could ever dream of becoming, even in all our arrogance.On Dem presidential candidate calls on world to unite to fight climate change posted 1 year, 3 months ago 11 Responses