Would the planet be better off without people? (171)

Feb 8, 2011 9:23 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
gardenhackle
gardenhacklegardenhackleStratford, Connecticut USA55 Threads 9 Polls 2,067 Posts
Ccincy: Maybe it would've been better with no world at all.End of all problems.


Since "better" and "worse" are issues of perspective and since there would be no perspective if the world had never existed and, therefore, no life existed to "perceive", things could be neither better nor worse if the world had never existed.

It's like saying.... maybe if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
Feb 8, 2011 9:25 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
mnowsa
mnowsamnowsaRajshahi, Rajshahi Division Bangladesh145 Threads 3 Polls 7,536 Posts
gininitaly: I certainly think the planet is better off without people TODAY.


just today? i think the planet earth should also have some holidays. During those holidays, we human can go to another planet so that our planet can take some rest.dunno laugh
Feb 8, 2011 9:25 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
Ccincy
CcincyCcincyCincinnati, Ohio USA77 Threads 20,535 Posts
gardenhackle: Since "better" and "worse" are issues of perspective and since there would be no perspective if the world had never existed and, therefore, no life existed to "perceive", things could be neither better nor worse if the world had never existed.

It's like saying.... maybe if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.



I think you're missing my point.

I"ll agree to disagree with you and leave it at that before it becomes an argument.
Feb 8, 2011 9:28 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
gardenhackle
gardenhacklegardenhackleStratford, Connecticut USA55 Threads 9 Polls 2,067 Posts
mnowsa: just today? i think the planet earth should also have some holidays. During those holidays, we human can go to another planet so that our planet can take some rest.


I think it would be a good step in the right direction if we just started with all the illegal Mexican immigrants going back to Mexico.
Feb 8, 2011 9:29 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
gardenhackle
gardenhacklegardenhackleStratford, Connecticut USA55 Threads 9 Polls 2,067 Posts
Ccincy: I think you're missing my point.

I"ll agree to disagree with you and leave it at that before it becomes an argument.


I'm not sure we even disagree. I'm just discussing this from a philsophical perspective. Perhaps that's the disconnect. You seem to be posting more from an emotional perspective.
Feb 8, 2011 9:33 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
trueheart1941
trueheart1941trueheart1941brentwood essex, Essex, England UK27 Threads 8,005 Posts
yes. just leave me and 4x4..plus two lovely females.to put the world to right......laugh laugh laugh any takers....?????
Feb 8, 2011 9:59 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
FreddyFudpucker
FreddyFudpuckerFreddyFudpuckerObamaville, Indiana USA10,179 Posts
gardenhackle: I think it would be a good step in the right direction if we just started with all the illegal Mexican immigrants going back to Mexico.



Now now... laugh
Feb 8, 2011 10:01 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
FreddyFudpucker
FreddyFudpuckerFreddyFudpuckerObamaville, Indiana USA10,179 Posts
leigh2154: Well, it would be a step Fud......


But we must love everyone! heart wings
Feb 8, 2011 10:07 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
SUNSHINEB0Y
SUNSHINEB0YSUNSHINEB0Ycork, Cork Ireland2,259 Posts
jac379: I know it would have been a better place if some people had lived.

Martin Luther King, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed spring to mind.


it was a better place when my wife was here
Feb 8, 2011 10:11 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
leigh2154
leigh2154leigh2154Crossville, Tennessee USA5 Threads 6,408 Posts
SUNSHINEB0Y: it was a better place when my wife was here


Awwwwww Sunshine.......teddybear bouquet sad flower
Feb 8, 2011 10:22 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
SUNSHINEB0Y
SUNSHINEB0YSUNSHINEB0Ycork, Cork Ireland2,259 Posts
leigh2154: Awwwwww Sunshine.......


ty L xxsad flower
Feb 8, 2011 10:25 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
jvaski
jvaskijvaskiunknown, California USA115 Threads 11 Polls 9,576 Posts
gardenhackle: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it crush the tree hugger who chained himself to the limb, was the tree-hugger still an idiot?
scold scold
Feb 8, 2011 10:31 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
venusenvy
venusenvyvenusenvyCalgary, Alberta Canada27 Threads 20,003 Posts
gardenhackle: I think it would be a good step in the right direction if we just started with all the illegal Mexican immigrants going back to Mexico.


Im sure Mexicans believe the world was a better place before the arrival of europeans. I bet first Nations peeps think the same dunno
Feb 8, 2011 10:33 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
SUNSHINEB0Y
SUNSHINEB0YSUNSHINEB0Ycork, Cork Ireland2,259 Posts
venusenvy: Im sure Mexicans believe the world was a better place before the arrival of europeans. I bet first Nations peeps think the same


and is it proven that the tree hugger was an idiot b4?
Feb 8, 2011 10:37 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
TrueBlue1986
TrueBlue1986TrueBlue1986Sale, South Manchester, Cheshire, England UK1,322 Posts
SUNSHINEB0Y: and is it proven that the tree hugger was an idiot b4?


It's a given.
Feb 8, 2011 10:41 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
SUNSHINEB0Y
SUNSHINEB0YSUNSHINEB0Ycork, Cork Ireland2,259 Posts
TrueBlue1986: It's a given.


I don't accept that. I know some very inteligent and clever people who have been known to hug trees, sorry but if you're going to come out with crap like that you have to state who gave it to whom and where and when and possibly even why or nobody will b'leve u.grin
Feb 8, 2011 10:43 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
venusenvy
venusenvyvenusenvyCalgary, Alberta Canada27 Threads 20,003 Posts
SUNSHINEB0Y: and is it proven that the tree hugger was an idiot b4?


Its all just debate and Garden usually puts up a good one wine
Feb 8, 2011 10:47 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
gardenhackle
gardenhacklegardenhackleStratford, Connecticut USA55 Threads 9 Polls 2,067 Posts
venusenvy: Im sure Mexicans believe the world was a better place before the arrival of europeans. I bet first Nations peeps think the same


First nations peeps maybe, but most, if not all Mexicans wouldn't exist if Europeans hadn't shown up. I think you have to go a bit further south than Mexico to get populations that don't have high levels of European DNA.
Feb 8, 2011 10:47 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
SUNSHINEB0Y
SUNSHINEB0YSUNSHINEB0Ycork, Cork Ireland2,259 Posts
venusenvy: Its all just debate and Garden usually puts up a good one




Hmmm ...put's up a good one eh? ...sure you have that POST in the right thread hmmmm?blushing
Feb 8, 2011 10:48 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
gardenhackle
gardenhacklegardenhackleStratford, Connecticut USA55 Threads 9 Polls 2,067 Posts
venusenvy: Its all just debate and Garden usually puts up a good one


Thank you, Venus. :) Some of this stuff is very interesting. :)
Feb 8, 2011 10:56 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
TrueBlue1986
TrueBlue1986TrueBlue1986Sale, South Manchester, Cheshire, England UK1,322 Posts
SUNSHINEB0Y: I don't accept that. I know some very inteligent and clever people who have been known to hug trees, sorry but if you're going to come out with crap like that you have to state who gave it to whom and where and when and possibly even why or nobody will b'leve u.


Tree huggers are not idiots because they have a low intellect they are idiots because they're over-emotional wrecks living in a fantasy, and they have little or no gratitude for all the positive things mankind does and has done,

And I really don't think Hippy's need any help making themselves look foolish, so I can't say I care for who does believe me.
Feb 8, 2011 10:56 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
Dmire
DmireDmirekingston, Kingston Jamaica20 Threads 2 Polls 508 Posts
gardenhackle: Just wondering......If you answered "Yes", why are you still here?

How would we know about the planet if we were never in it?
Feb 8, 2011 10:57 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
Conrad73: I can see it now!
My Lathe and Vertical Mill on a rampage across the Planet!
assisted expertly by my Toolroom!rolling on the floor laughing
It's all to do how People apply the technology!
Typical example,Western Germany and the cruddy polluted Landscape of the former People's Republic of Germany!
Or the extreme Pollution in the Former Soviet-Union!
Feb 8, 2011 10:59 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
gardenhackle
gardenhacklegardenhackleStratford, Connecticut USA55 Threads 9 Polls 2,067 Posts
SUNSHINEB0Y: I know some very inteligent and clever people who have been known to hug trees.


True. I have to agree. Some aren't idiots. Some are just nucking futz. Intelligence is not proof of sanity. And while it's easy enough to cross-label the clinically insane as bona fide idiots, these are two distinctly different conditions that don't have any known direct relationship with each other.
Feb 8, 2011 11:00 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
gardenhackle
gardenhacklegardenhackleStratford, Connecticut USA55 Threads 9 Polls 2,067 Posts
Conrad73: I can see it now!
My Lathe and Vertical Mill on a rampage across the Planet!


And just imagine the carnage your high speed micromotor deburring tool with carbide bits could wreak on civilization if it escaped from your shop.
Feb 8, 2011 11:01 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
Swissblueeyes
SwissblueeyesSwissblueeyesa lake, Michigan USA13 Threads 3,371 Posts
gardenhackle: Just wondering......If you answered "Yes", why are you still here?
The planet would be better off if the people who pour pollutants into the water, sky and earth quit polluting it..Other than that it would be fine..
Feb 8, 2011 11:01 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
gardenhackle
gardenhacklegardenhackleStratford, Connecticut USA55 Threads 9 Polls 2,067 Posts
Dmire: How would we know about the planet if we were never in it?


That seems to be the key question here, doesn't it. :) cheers
Feb 8, 2011 11:01 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
FreddyFudpucker
FreddyFudpuckerFreddyFudpuckerObamaville, Indiana USA10,179 Posts
gardenhackle: And just imagine the carnage your high speed micromotor deburring tool with carbide bits could wreak on civilization if it escaped from your shop.


I think you've watched one too many episodes of "Tim 'Tool Time' Taylor"... laugh
Feb 8, 2011 11:03 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
FreddyFudpucker
FreddyFudpuckerFreddyFudpuckerObamaville, Indiana USA10,179 Posts
leigh2154: Yes, agree...but from afar....


Mars? laugh
Feb 8, 2011 11:05 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
FreddyFudpucker
FreddyFudpuckerFreddyFudpuckerObamaville, Indiana USA10,179 Posts
leigh2154: Thats fer enough!!!


The moon is far enough. No need to waste fuel. grin

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