# Why You Should Not Save The Earth By [ArthurWritesOnline](https://paragraph.com/@arthurwritesonline) · 2022-03-04 --- How we should adapt or die out. Ecology and Economy ------------------- _Ecology is the management of resources: all the resources in a global and finite system, such as the planet._ _Economy is the management of capital gains. One could do the exercise of seeing it as a sub-section of ecology. It is often used to evaluate or define local or short-term systems, neglecting the implications of neighbouring systems._ Don’t play god -------------- You can’t save the planet. Furthermore, most people would agree on the purpose: it’s not a question of saving the planet but saving human life. The planet has preceded us by more than 4.5 billion years and it has seen other threats far worse than us — though not necessarily living. Did you know that the CO2 level was ten times higher when the dinosaurs where here? That didn’t seem to bother them much. On the contrary, such a high level of CO2 allowed for and supported a rich environment providing a particularly sturdy flora and fauna. The various discharges of space, volcanoes, methane from the oceans, natural radioactivity are far more intense than our influence on this planet. The Earth will see us pass and disappear without regret, without complaining. The world will continue without us. The world is changing, and it’s no big deal .. ---------------------------------------------- The problem isn’t about the planet being a victim of human beings. It is about us being victims of our own excesses. We are a species among millions of others, with a story, a beginning, mutations and probably an extinction. This is an opportunity to increase our awareness of the fact that there is no human destiny dictated by “higher ideas”, but rather an individual and social freedom to create a project where human society transcends the gift of life and given assets for communal greater good. The human race is the result of incessant changes of environment. One only has to look at something other than one’s own nose to see the diversity and the incessant variations that slowly shape the future. Nothing is fixed nor certain in the evolution of the planet, nothing is acquired, nothing is promised. ![Saturn Devouring His Son, Goy](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/6fda010a9a4f10c89e5f2f5a6ee471a698c4141074714ed89fc7c43d70663fdb.jpg) Saturn Devouring His Son, Goy On the other hand, to rally around saving the planet -which will only change as it has always done- is to provoke the human tendency to arrogance, and to measure our power by the value or magnitude of what we can destroy (or by the number of those we drag in our “Pharaonic death”). To fantasise that humanity can destroy the planet is to support and excite megalomania, ego, personal qualms. It is to support the dependence on feelings, to the detriment of the independence that reason allows. It is to support the systems built on power, dominance, propaganda and organised religions, the promises of the sowing tomorrows, the fraud of infinite progress, and other initiators of factory flesh and cannon fodders. We need to manage the change and adapt to it. Not stop it. Claiming to save the planet is part of the problem -------------------------------------------------- Indeed, saving the planet is part of the inability for humans to see themselves for what we are. We’re not the chosen species, not a divine act, not an end in itself, not the best nor the worst. Instead of wanting to be the deserving children of an almighty father, be the adult free with your life. Saving the planet is the blind arrogance of the tiny knowledge and power of humans against the near-infinite and near-eternal universe. Everyday dozens of species disappear. We are one and we are likely to disappear. The earth will see us disappear, and time, elements and future changes will digest our tracks as surely as the hundreds of meters of soil that cover the remains of the dinosaurs. We can take advantage of our powerful brains, use them for something better than chanting our sufficiency and crystallising a world shaped by our limits. And if there is no goal, we have the choice of the path. To advance our probable only real difference: consciousness. **“Live Long And Prosper”** --- *Originally published on [ArthurWritesOnline](https://paragraph.com/@arthurwritesonline/why-you-should-not-save-the-earth)*