Essential Pollutants

Environmentalists have to be some of the most arrogant, self-righteous, narrow-minded people on Earth. This planet will be just fine. In the billions of years it's been here, it's seen worse things, like ice ages, solar flares, bombardment from asteroids, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, continental drifts, and so on. We've only been here for a couple hundred thousand years, and we've only been engaged in heavy industry for about 250. If anything, we're the ones who are going away.

There's a reason they get mad when you find that out, sadly. The less you know, the more they profit and the less powerful you become.

It's interesting when I ask people how things can get made without oil or transported without trucks and they never had to think about it before.

I mean, I'm not saying that our world isn't deteriorating and being destroyed by us, it's just that there are some people out there who take it to the extreme and blame us for every little thing due to the negative impact we have on the planet. No matter how much of our fault it is, we live in a world where these destructive things are essential for living everyday life as we know it.