Frank and Ernest by Thaves for June 17, 2010

If your speaking of a perishing world, you’ve failed already.

Humans have their own apocalypse asteroid. It’s called BP.

What was the real “worst global disaster”?

and the dawn breaks over yet another perfect day in the Yucatan……… …these guys were around this old earth for millions of years….

humanity , at it’s self destructive rate, would be lucky to last 300,000 years even without the help of an astroid

MILDOG The MAN said the spill was the worst disaster. I guess the Dust Bowl doesn’t count.

Lewreader, you keep bringing up the Dust Bowl. Are you an Okie, or just a Steinbeck fan?

Let’s get real: the Dust Bowl doesn’t even come close to this. The Dust Bowl was a regional economic and human tragedy, but ecologically it wasn’t even a blip. This is a nightmare that the entire ecosystem, including us, mostly but not exclusively in and around the Gulf of Mexico, will be feeling for decades. Some areas, some people, some ways of life and culture, will never recover.

It’s all relative. Even the impact that took down the dinosaurs wasn’t the worst extinction event in the earth’s history, not by a long shot. We would do best to focus on the crisis at hand, and not remember past ones as a picayune excuse to criticize others.

The earth is not nearly as fragile as you doomsayers suggest. The great asteroid impact did not turn Earth into a Venus, it healed and regenerated. The Mexican spill of 1979 (many times greater than the worst case expectation of today’s BP spill) is gone without a trace. The intentional Saddam Hussein spill of of 1992 which dwarfed all other spills combined, in a much smaller body of water, is also gone. So far environmental hysteria has hamstrung the federal government into two months of inactivity. The local damage to property, businesses and environment is huge but let’s not become catatonic over the perceived magnitude of the situation.

From the comments it seems the comic strip ‘State Of The Union’ didn’t go away after all..LOL..

‘Too big to fail’ eventually collapses of it’s own weight. You are quite right, UBUBOBU, the Earth will NOT turn into Venus. It has been warmer in the past and life has continued. Even human life will survive, though human civilization might be hard pressed to continue as it has been. Billions will die, but as an American you will probably survive unless freak weather gets you. There will be floods, famines, droughts, and other effects as the carbon cycle and the Earth’s distribution of heat seeks out a new balance. Life will continue, but you might not want to.