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Originally Posted by TheDoc
No reason to show disgust. Even today, let alone just before the little Ice Age happened, volcanoes polluted the earth far more than humans ever can or will. Add in the oceans, which do the same thing every day, far beating humans. All the natural crap we burn and use, well the earth does the exact same thing with it, at much much much more massive levels, daily.
We are hurting, humans... not earth. I'm all for keeping the earth and air clean, but for the safety of human life, not for the boiling rock that can fart methane gas at a level so large than all life would die the next time someone light a smoke.
Some far greater things going on with earth, the sun, the universe, than the ants that like to think they running the show.
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You make some good points. But don't underestimate the destruction of an army of carpenter ants or termites on your wooden home.
I grew up with 2 steel mills and a coal plant in my town, right on the Ohio river. Everyone who lives there knows how terrible the water is in that river is and also how terrible the air smells.
While human pollution does not really affect the overall health of the earth, it does have an effect on the extremely fragile environmental conditions that humans need to live.
Honestly, it should be common knowledge that humans are directly affecting the Earth's environmental conditions. For a lot of people, you just have to look out your window to realize it.
There's a reason that you don't run your car inside with the garage door closed. Population increases everyday and vegetation decreases to make room for housing and stuff, which is effectively making your garage smaller and your exhaust pipe bigger.