What are the 5 worst things humans have done/doing to Mother Earth?

[GrahamWellington]

Here’s my list (in order):

1. Dropping H-bombs in the ocean. (Who ever gave 'em the right!)

2. According to NBC News a year or so back, many barge owners in Asian countries (they speculated)are saving money by emptying their hauls under the cover of darkness into the Pacific Ocean, instead of desposing of it properly via land fills. (They showed on said news program many ocean creatures tanagled up in plastic … and said the affected area is larger than the USofA!)

3.) Internal combustion engine; slowly killing animals and people.

4.) Stripping the Amazon Jungle of trees.

5.) Just flat-out tooooooo many hman babies.

Note: My number one and two should be switched; all that garbage is way worse than even those bombs years ago.

[Shagnasty]

@GrahamWellington

Here’s my list (in order):

1. Dropping H-bombs in the ocean. (Who ever gave 'em the right!)

2. According to NBC News a year or so back, many barge owners in Asian countries (they speculated)are saving money by emptying their hauls under the cover of darkness into the Pacific Ocean, instead of desposing of it properly via land fills. (They showed on said news program many ocean creatures tanagled up in plastic … and said the affected area is larger than the USofA!)

3.) Internal combustion engine; slowly killing animals and people.

4.) Stripping the Amazon Jungle of trees.

5.) Just flat-out tooooooo many hman babies.

Note: My number one and two should be switched; all that garbage is way worse than even those bombs years ago.

I don’t think #1 should make the list at all. It is simply high profile but has little real impact on the bigger picture. Likewise, #2 is very specific and trivial in the overall scheme of things.

Here are mine:

1. Overpopulation - all other problems are made worse by this.
2. The use and dependence on the internal combustion engine.
3. Chemical based agriculture.
4. Deforestation in general, not just in the Amazon.
5. Overfishing the oceans

[Xema]

You’re sure this isn’t IMHO material?

[samclem]

THe OP calls for opinions rather than factual answers.

Moved.

samclem GQ moderator

[Shalmanese]

I can guarentee you, whatever we’ve done so far, it’s not even 1/10th as bad as what grass did to the enviroment. The evolution of grass completely fucked up nearly every other species.

[Shirley_Ujest]

1. chemical based agriculture.

2. genetically modifying crops & animals.

3)Overbreeding.

4. Proliferation of cars and the reliance on fossil fuel.

5. War

[Spudo]

1. Fossil fuels (I’m using this as a blanket thing, from coal to cars and plastic etc)
2. Intentional nuclear explosions
3. Overpopulation (though in a more direct way this is the worst thing we’ve done to ourselves)
4. Destruction of forests and other wild areas
5. The amount of garbage we produce

[Annie-Xmas]

Nonrecycling and nonrecyclables combined with a disposal culture. We’ve simply got to stop using so much and throwing so much away.

[WhyNot]

@Shalmanese

I can guarentee you, whatever we’ve done so far, it’s not even 1/10th as bad as what grass did to the enviroment. The evolution of grass completely fucked up nearly every other species.

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[Silentgoldfish]

1. Calling it “mother” earth :rolleyes:
2. Having the hubris to think that anything we do will have a significant impact in the long term.

[gum]

Inventing the wheel.

[Mr.Blue_Sky]

@Silentgoldfish

1. Calling it “mother” earth :rolleyes:
2. Having the hubris to think that anything we do will have a significant impact in the long term.

Thank you.

[GrahamWellington]

[QUOTE= Shagnasty #2 is very specific and trivial in the overall scheme of things.

Turning the earth’s crown jewel – the Pacific Ocean! – into a sewer is okay with you?!

Note to God: Dear Almighty, any time you’re ready to take me far away from all these crazies in this world, I am ready and willing to go. Honest.

[parthenokinesis]

@GrahamWellington

Turning the earth’s crown jewel – the Pacific Ocean! –

C’mon, it’s hardly shiny at all. Earth’s crown jewel? I’m going with the Cliffs of Dover. And I’m a Yank.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@Annie-Xmas

Nonrecycling and nonrecyclables combined with a disposal culture. We’ve simply got to stop using so much and throwing so much away.

Step one would be to have the recycling drop-off centers stop keeping bankers’ hours so they’re never open when you have time to go.

At least the ones around here do that.

[VenusProbe]

My top 5:

1. continuing to breed like freakin rabbits!

2 through 5: see number 1

[MysteryFellow63427]

@Shalmanese

I can guarentee you, whatever we’ve done so far, it’s not even 1/10th as bad as what grass did to the enviroment. The evolution of grass completely fucked up nearly every other species.

Whoosh…?

[Dr.Rieux]

Scarring the landscape with open-pit mining and crap like Mount Rusmore.

[kanicbird]

AH, Mother Earth, I know her well. She is eternally gratefull for us getting rid of all that oil that’s been accumimating over the years, a planatary liposuction. Also getting rid of a lot of those trees that just crack her rocks, rocks that she spent millions of years building. Dumping in the oceans just gives her more material to work with.

I really think Mother Earth likes us humans, and wants us to procreate and can provide for us all we need till we can get Sister Mars going.

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

I don’t really think that old “Moms” Earth has noticed what we’ve done at all. We’re less than an eyeblink on her cosmic time scale. 50 to 100 million years from now, there will hardly be any detectable sign that we were even here. And she’ll go on spinning in her orbit.

Now, we may mess things up so badly for ourselves that surviving on “Mom” will be a bit tough, but it’s really no skin off the old gal’s crust. IMHO.