[Joe the Intern]

There's a lot of dumb shit in this thread. To start, humans are not naturally good or bad. We're not oil-hungry shit monsters, and we're not LSD-dropping tree huggers, either. Most of us are indifferent. And this stuff about the earth being "alive"... That's ridiculous beyond words.

The reason we use so many resources is because we use our minds more than we use our bodies. The reason we have become the dominant species is because we're able to USE the resources, so naturally we have to, otherwise we wouldn't be able to do much at all. Of course, we shouldn't suck 'em down like a fat man at Dairy Queen, but god damn, we should be allowed to use them.

Another point. The bad things we've done don't outweigh the good things we've accomplished. All of our achievements in mathematics, philosophy, and all around science (I'm not talking technical science). We've achieved such a huge amount, just for the sake of KNOWLEDGE. To give up the pursuit of science would be lunacy. I didn't even mention art and culture... Don't go insane. Humans are bad, and they're good. We have Mother Theresas, and we have land barons. Let's deal with it and not take the pussy way out by giving it up.