This brought some interesting questions to mind. Will the Earth heal in spite of humans? Will humans have to expire in order for the Earth to heal? Can humans help with the healing? Does Earth mean anything without humans inhabiing it?

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I think it is wishful thinking LK, the earth will be healed for 1000 years by it's Creator before He creates a new Earth (and Heaven).

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I don't think we have to expire, or that we will, but I do not think our technological civilization will endure much longer. Either we will be part of the Earth's healing, or the World will go on without us.

Slowly, Earth will heal. She is important in her own right, whther or not we are here to see it or not. It's sad that people have to ask such a question. To assume that all the Cosmos exists only to provide one small point where humans can desport themselves is awfully arrogant.

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When I read Hawkins' account of why he thinks that us humans will eventually destroy our own life here on Earth, I had some doubts. But as time has gone on, I'm afraid he well may be right. Our planet already seems overpopulated and the consumption of energy, which is increasing, along with the ever increasing danger of nuclear war, could very well doom us.

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well gee metis...i could have done with out reading that...this must fall under the quote of ...Truth Hurts...........OUCH.....OUCH....OUCH............. ..........

Hey, I've been married for 41 years, so I can relate. I'm still waiting for my wife to state that I've done at least one thing right.

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The more people debate these things the better I feel because that means the consciuosness is changing...yes the earth will heal and we will be a part of it.

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"Nature" will continue to function, and humans and every other living thing will continue to evolve in response to the conditions around them -- which includes of course, every other living thing.

I would not think of it as the earth (or rather, "nature") healing, but rather continuing the processes of evolution. Humans, through their own action or through some other perfectly natural means, may either be part of the future of earth, or not. The earth doesn't care.

So if humans care, and want to be part of it, maybe they should spend a moment or two to consider what nature needs back from us, rather than always being concerned with what we can take from nature.

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is there anyway to get this on bill boards all over the place....or something simmiliar....the before and after pics of a forest..and then one timberd and then maybe ...the ocean full of fish to after only a few fish....do little slide show bill boards...the abundance the mass timbering and the mass fishing...then the clip of not wasting and the house instead of being a manssion being functional and fitting the needs...etc...dittys under each ..or if the clip is clear enough words would not be needed...

the clips most important would show the beauty of our caring for our earth...that is the focus...the beauty of it..not the problems but the strip showing the process..