“The Earth is under attack, and we're its attackers. How can we defend it?”

The Earth is NOT under attack, and we’re NOT its attackers. We don't have to defend it.

What is under attack is Western society. It is under attack from Islam. All this 'earthy werthy' business is a frivolous Left wing propaganda campaign to take our minds of the the real threat from their ally, Islam. It is also designed to remove more money from us.

Gosh, I didn't know they had ivory towers at Charles Darwin Uni. How's the view from up there ?

Been there done that. And as I learned just 6 years old, the only way is to fight back and win.

And given the attempted connection, totally irrelevant. The earth is not injured by essential mining connected to mandatory mining site re-vegetation, nor more so by essential food production.

What is harming the earth are so called green activists, spreading outright lies and or massive information pertaining to green energy, Super Fuel, thorium.

Green energy coupled to space age desalination, is arguably the only option for not just saving the earth, massively improving food and fibre production, without clear felling whole forest; but rolling back and reversing both poverty, famine and drought related dislocation and conflict.

The disingenuous green agenda would return the world to an agrarian lifestyle replete with artisans, and a dawn to dark gut bust. we'd keep stuff like solar panels and wind farms to ensure our laptops and ubiquitous mobile phones functioned.

This model would require vastly more ARABLE LAND AND WATER, than we have, with every family needing around ten acres for food production and another forty for the woodlot/ self replenishing fuel source. Moreover, each beast of burden needs at least 8 acres of sustenance graze.

Arable land an exponentially diminishing resource! And down to resolutely anti industrial anti development green activists!

I could elaborate, but commend Graham's blog that largely explains how they do that just by blocking the very thing that has a snowflakes chance in hell of turning back and repairing the harm as we look for a better final solution? Mass migration to other worlds?

We can't wait while we or completely natural events remove that option/chance or decision from us!
Alan B.

The earth's radius is 6371 kilometres.
Man's deepest mines are around 3 kilometres deep and there are only a few of those.
This means that humans barely scratch earth's surface - and there's not much more they can do.

Even had Earth been actually attacked by feeble humans, rather than slightly tickled, the author's analogy omitted the most obvious and effective response - prayer!

Worship and serve the Creator and the creation will be taken care of. Ever seen the mess left behind by some of those who claim to have connection or love the earth?

And AJ Philips has the hide to tell me I should pay attention to & respect academics. There is only one word to describe this bloke, his mates, & the AJ Philips of this world. It starts with W & ends with W & ends with ers.