Defiance of Tyranny

Posted 1:32 PM by Steve
Why "Earth Day" is stupid.

"Earth Day", the very idea of it is about as rational as "termite mound day" or "tree trunk day". To celebrate an inanimate object as if it is some magical, holistic deity is a primitive superstitious paganism that mankind should have discarded eons ago.

The Earth is simply a planet. It's an object in space. For humans to pretend as if they have some special link or relationship with this object is decidedly irrational and illogical.

Here's a thought experiment: Let's compress the history of the Earth into a smaller more manageable size for our brains. We'll make it four months, say September through December. Before the dinosaurs ever lived, the Allende meteoroid became the oldest piece of the solar system ever discovered. It's arrival on our planet came on about September 9th. The first dinosaurs showed up on Christmas Eve. Humans appeared at roughly 10:30 P.M. on New year's Eve. All of recorded history occupies the last ten seconds of December 31.

For humans to claim some magical kinship with the earth by celebrating "Earth Day" is akin to a flea celebrating "Dog Day".

Dinosaurs have a much longer relationship with the planet earth. They were the dominant species for more than 100 million years. Mammals have only dominated the upper 1.3% of Earth's history. The first mammals were small, furry, rat-like creatures that first appeared 130,000,000 B.C. it wasn't until about 1,500,000 that stone tool wielding homo erectus first appeared. How "human" that creature truly was is not known, but it was about one million more years before we know he started controlling fire, building huts, driving herds of wild animals, using language, etc.

Even back then Earth was no Eden. Homo Erectus was actively killing our closest competitors Homo habilis, Australopithecus robustus, and Australopithecus boisei.

It is a dangerous myth to confer upon the planet Earth some sort of positive status or to deify the planet to the extent that "Earth Day" does. Look what happened to the dinosaurs. Their presence was far more established and extensive than ours when nature suddenly made them extinct.

It's arrogant delusion for mankind to believe that Earth will somehow protect and nurture us if we "take care of it." If this isn't the best argument for actively exploring, colonizing and discovering more in our solar system as soon as possible, I don't know what is.

Posted 12:49 PM by Steve
Isn't it ironic that the same people who were warning of the "coming Ice Age" in the early and mid-seventies are now proclaiming doomsday by global warming, even though they can't prove:

1. That warming is actually occuring when urban heat pockets are accounted for.

2. That so-called greenhouse gasses are the cause of the perceived warming.

3. That Man's meager 1-1.5% contribution to greenhouse gasses would be significant enough to contribute to climate change.

4. any temperature variation is due to atmospheric make-up and not solar output.