Stephen Hawkins: We are Destroying Our Planet.

Steven Hawkings, the world-famous physicist, stated that we should be looking for another planet because we are destroying planet Earth.

If true, then nature has a way of "self correcting".   We will simply become extinct in our own toxic waste, and nature will try again in another few million years, with some other new, more intelligent species. Any maybe they (whoever "they" are) will do better than us, but I doubt it.

I like to think we are working our way out of our current mess.  We are maturing as a species because we have become aware of our own impact on the planet, and we will use advanced technologies to correct the mistakes of the past. 

Remember that we are still very young (as a species).  The dinosaurs ruled the planet for about 180 million years, but most anthropologist  say our primitive ancestors walked the earth five to seven million yeas ago.  We only made flint tools about two and a half million years ago.  The Renaissance occurred about six thousand years ago with the Age of Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution just started about three hundred years ago. 

Most would agree that modern technology did not really start until after Edison invented the light bulb about 1880 and we electrified much of the planet.  Remember, Rutherford didn't split the atom until 1919, about one hundred years ago.  Since that time, we have created plastics, semiconductors,  antibiotics, nuclear power, birth control pills, electronic computers, carbon steel, concrete, skyscrapers, contact lenses, nanotechnology, Teflon, solar panels, the internet, e-mail, wind turbines and electric cars. We put men on the moon and we put communication satellites in orbit. We have the science to know what we are doing right and wrong.  We can and will, fix our mistakes.  (As an example, do you remember the problem with phosphates?  Fixed it.  DDT?  Fixed that too.   How about the Ozone Hole?)

We know we must work our way off of fossil fuels, and will will.   No, I am not worried about whether or not man will save the planet.  We will fix it if we have the time. I am more worried about the prospects of nuclear war as our numbers get too large and we run out of resources.

What do YOU think?


R. Allan Worrell
Author:  Father John's Gift

e-mail: alw3141@gmail.com