I liked this bit by Carlin originally but the more I’ve thought about it over the years, the less I like it because it’s actually pretty fucking selfish and human-centric. Sure, we’re fucked and this ball of dirt and water will still be here. But we’re taking everything else with us too. The bees didn’t make plastic, or cut down rainforests, or fish the oceans dry. But they’re fucked too, along with the people that did those things.

Sure, the planet is fine and the people are fucked. Humans going extinct is a nice thought, we deserve it. But that’s no excuse to just give up and let the dominoes fall as far as everything else on this planet goes.

I like Carlin a lot but this one is almost saying “ah well fuck it, let them fill the air with smog and cut down all the forests, who cares. The scarred, uninhabitable earth will still be here, so what’s the point?”