(03-04-2019 05:02 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 12:03 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  "Save the planet" is pretty pretentious anyways.

To quote Ian Malcolm (from the book Jurassic Park): ""Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.""

We do have the power to destroy the atmosphere. And that's all that matters.

Fine. Then say that. Don't say we're destroying "the planet."

Words mean things. Don't say one thing when you mean another. It misleads most people and confuses the rest. In the end it drives people away from the cause.

Although with modern-day "environmentalists," I don't think "the cause" is actually the environment. It's a means to an end; a way of taking away property rights and transferring control of the means of production to the government.