Herein, I will embark on a long, almost emo-ridden tirade on my bit of exhaustion with the whole environmental thing.
I probably don't mean it. Not really.
I'm not really sure who to blame, but at this point, I'm going to say to the people that seem so set on fucking up our planet, "Go ahead, see if I care." I, of course, do care, but there's obviously nothing that's going to change their mind.
I mean, we could form up like the mafia and go break some toes until people started cleaning up -- literally, pun intended -- their act, but that will that accomplish?
Go ahead. Drill in Alaska. Coat the seas in crude oil. Pump as much carbon as you want into the atmosphere. Kill as many species as you can. While you're at it, build me an entire house out of ivory. Nuclear plants -- the unsafe kind -- for everyone. Coal when that doesn't work. Add some rotating blades to the dams to make sure the salmon don't make it through. Spray CFCs wantonly.
See, the greatest thing about Nature -- that's Nature with a capital N -- is it is self-correcting. It's a beautiful, wonderful thing. Look at our bodies! Oh, what a work is man, and so on and so forth. Life itself adapts in so many wonderful, unique, and special ways. Ecosystems form to their environment. Scientists have found entire ecosystems where they thought life couldn't possibly survive -- in the icy cold in Antarctica under sealed lakes, swarming around super-hot, sulfur-filled waters in the depts of a lightless ocean. Hell, there's even been some hints at life on Mars now!
Life is one of the greatest things, and no species, ever, has ever had the power to exterminate life on this planet. Even an asteroid SMASHING into the planet, destroying vast amounts of the land, forming the Gulf of Mexico, and dooming the dinosaurs could end life.
Oh, there will be a correction. Life, and Nature adapts, and adjusts. Humans are going to be adjusted right out of existence soon enough. I think, now, at this point, there's not much humanity can do except escape the adjustment by fleeing to another world.
So, go ahead, have fun guys. Build me some more cheap, plastic toys. I'm off to buy a Hummer.