OT: George Carlin - Saving the Planet

I turned the transcript text on and copy/pasted a little bit below. It's a fun listen for sure!

"I'm not one of these people who's worried about everything. You got people like this around... your country's full of them. Now, people walking around all day long every minute of the day worried about everything... worried about the air... worried about the water... worried about the soil... worried about insecticides, pesticides, food additives, carcinogens, worried about radon gas, worried about asbestos, worried about saving endangered species!

Let me tell you about endangered species, alright? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It's arrogant meddling - it's what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn't anybody understand that interfering with nature, over ninety percent... way over ninety percent... of all the species that have ever lived on this planet, ever lived - are gone! They're extinct... We didn't kill them all! They just disappeared!! That's what nature does. They disappear... These days, at the rate of 25 a day, and I mean regardless of our our behavior, irrespective of how we act on this planet, twenty five species that were here today will be gone tomorrow.

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He's funny!

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