We're Not Worthy

Scientists have found a new planet in another universe that appears to be habitable. http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/05/first-planet-in-habitable-zone-discovered/?hpt=hp_t2

Even if we could make our way there I don't think we should. WE"RE NOT WORTHY. I hate to quote Wayne's World, but seriously we can't be trusted with another planet. Just look at what we've done to ours.

Do you know that the Colorado River quit flowing into the Sea of Cortez in 1998. It just stops now. This isn't some little creek that quit making it to a river or something. This the the Colorado!

We all know that the fossil fuel age is ending and we do NOTHING but look for new ways to squeeze a little more from sources we all know are too dirty and destructive to use - oil sands for instance. Once we squeeze this crap from the sands - which is an environmental nightmare - we pipe it through virgin forests to the coast where tankers 10 times as large as the Exxon Valdez pull up to ship it off to the highest bidder - China. They won't crash and cause a spill - will they?

We are less than 50 years from running out of clean drinking water and yet we don't protect and rehabilitate the one basic necessity of life we license it to Coke, Pepsi and Nestle so they can package it in toxic bottles and sell it back to us at 1000% more than it costs from the tap. That way we can add another 25 billion empty water bottles to our already full land fills. We do recycle almost 20% of them - aren't we special?

Some of you are saying "what do you mean the one basic human necessity Paul?" I'll concede that we need food and shelter as well, but without water you cannot digest the food that you couldn't grow anyway so you won't need shelter either. Get it?

So, we should do the right thing if we ever get an opportunity to colonize another planet and leave it for a race of beings that has a little more respect and a little less sense of entitlement.

More soon....