EARTH & PLASTIC (feat. George Carlin)

See, I'm not one of these people, who's worried about everything Country's full of them now People walking around all day long Every minute of the day, worried about everything Worried about the air, worried about the water, worried about the soil Worried about insecticides, pesticides, food additives, carcinogens Worried about radon gas, asbestos Saving endangered species Let me tell you about you about endangered species, all right? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans To control nature It's arrogant meddling It's what got us in trouble in the first place Doesn't anybody understand that? Interfering with nature We're so self-important So self-important Everybody's going to save something now Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails And the greatest arrogance of all, save the planet? What? The planet is doing great Been here four and a half billion years Do you ever think about the arithmetic? Planet has been here four and a half billion years We've been here, what? 100,000, maybe 200,000? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry For a little over 200 years, 200 years versus four and a half billion And we have the conceit to think that somehow, we're a threat? That somehow, we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful Little blue green ball, it's just a floating around the sun The planet has been through a lot worse than us Been through all kinds of things worse than us Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, Continental drift, solar flares, sunspots, magnetic storms, The magnetic reversal of the poles Hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment By comets, and asteroids, and meteors, worldwide floods, Tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, Cosmic rays, recurring ice ages And we think some plastic bags And some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet The planet The planet isn't going anywhere We are We are The planet isn't going anywhere We-We are We are It's arrogant meddling It's what got us in trouble in the first place We're so self-important So self-important Everybody's going to save something Planet isn't going anywhere We are We are And we won't leave much of a trace either Thank God for that Maybe a little styrofoam, maybe, little styrofoam Planet will be here we'll be long gone, just another failed mutation, Just another closed-end biological mistake An evolutionary cul-de-sac, the planet will shake us off Like a bad case of fleas A surface nuisance You want to know how the planet's doing? Ask those people at Pompeii who are frozen into position From volcanic ash "How the planets doing?" Want to know if the planet is all right? Ask those people in Mexico City, Or Armenia Or hundred other places buried Under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble If they feel like a threat to the planet this week The planet will be here for a long, long, long time after we're gone And it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, Because that's what it does It's a self-correcting system The air and the water will recover The earth will be renewed And if it's true, that plastic is not degradable, Well the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm The earth plus plastic The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic Plastic came out of the earth; The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children Could be the only reason the earth allowed us To be spawned from it in the first place It wanted plastic for itself Didn't know how to make it Needed us Could be the answer To our age-old philosophical question – Why are we here? Plastic – Assholes Plastic – Assholes Plastic – Assholes The planet isn't going anywhere We are We are The planet isn't going anywhere We-We are We are It's arrogant meddling It's what got us in trouble in the first place We're so self-important So self-important Everybody's going to save something Planet isn't going anywhere We are We are If it wasn't for love my lady The moments that we share Laughter and tears and the love that we made Will all slip away