I’m late to this, but so what. From The Guardian (UK):
It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.
Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.
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“Green” aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. “These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets,” the authors write.
Even if we never make contact with extraterrestrials, the report argues that considering the potential scenarios may help to plot the future path of human civilisation, avoid collapse and achieve long-term survival.
Finally. Vindication for Al Gore.
So take that, global warming deniers. And recognize: if you compel the people who really really really care about Mother Earth to throw you into gulags for your hateful, ignorant, anti-science denial, they’ll be doing it to save humanity.
From space aliens.
For the greater good.
(h/t Rush Limbaugh show and JD)
Kind of like how European explorers objected to the environmental damage of the out of control civilizations of North America when they first arrived.
I say we destroy the aliens to protect other alien civilizations from aliens that would destroy other civilizations to protect other civilizations.
‘Cause nothing says “advanced civilization” like Mobius logic.
It’s clear that the report is based mostly on a viewing of that 2008 Keanu Reeves masterwork “The Day The Earth Stood Still”.
I don’t get this. If the argument goes: human beings are destroying the viability of the earth’s atmosphere and hence earth’s climate for human flourishing, then how the hell would the results of that destruction become a human population more threatening to whatever the heck is out there in the universe? Seems to me the necessary consequence would most obviously be the diminishment of any threat.
For fun, is all.
I think it’s pretty cool that the Green religion is embracing aspects of Scientology.
How do they know that wrathful aliens won’t destroy us because of all the abortions?
Or for denying the existence of God?
Or for banning kids’ lemonade stands?
Or for polyester leisure suits? (Hey, they’re always gonna be time-delayed, right?)
Or, if it comes to that, for discovering fire?
Also, how is this different from medieval priests theatening people with excommunication and hell if they don’t fall in line?
Holy shit! I hope if we discover intelligent life on a distant planet, the environmentalists (aka “green aliens”) don’t insist on massacring the whole lot for using incandescent light bulbs!
On the other hand (or paw, or tentacle, or whatever) if it’s the Kzinti that show up, becoming a “monkey slave” is the very BEST you can hope for.
Tangentially related:
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I think our fate was sealed when the first episode of Jersey Shore was broadcast.
space aliens are gayer than putin
I find it unlikely that space aliens would wipe us put after going through all the trouble of creating us.
I think any self-respecting advanced civilization would have taken us out long ago. If Hitler wasn’t enough to convince ’em, the fabulous dancing duet of Stalin and Mao should have.
Slackers, those advanced alien civilizations are. If it were up to people like us, we’d have nova-bombed their suns already.
Oh, happyfeet, that whole idea, whole idea, is simply, I mean simply, simply, um, simply … nauseating.
(bleah)
Is anybody prepared to explain the bone head criterion of Gore’s making to be adapted as KILL YOURSELVES!!! (um … thank you)
I’m so glad we have these people helping us achieve “long-term survival”, because the last few million years have made us soft, what with the plagues, floods, ice ages, droughts, wars, and saber-toothed tigers. Potential “green aliens” with potential umbrage? Now that’s danger on a planetary level.
Lord Keynes was too.
Hola Mr. BJ!
You deniers of science and alien takeover of the planet are the modern day equivalent of the KKK.
“Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists”
Aw. Jeeze.
It just keeps getting worse.
Many scientists think that aliens might have better things to do than nanny humans.
If Hitler wasn’t enough to convince ‘em, the fabulous dancing duet of Stalin and Mao should have.
What, not Atilla the Hun? The Aztecs?
Surely there was more raw savagery before the commies and nazis made it easy though the wonders of modern technology.
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Along with man-caused global warming, the idea that aliens care what humans do is just another case of the progressive’s sense of self-importance. Their egos know no bounds.
“Humans are so powerful, look what they’re doing to the planet.”
“Humans are so wonderful (at least progressives are), aliens must care about what we’re doing.”
As a former daily reporter for a Daily, I am not sure which is cooler in a very-bad-carwreck sort of way:
A. That this was put in a lede: a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.
or
B. That scientists were willing to advance this claim in a public fashion as part of a broader scientific argument.
Both were considered career-ending stupidity as recently as five years ago.
If they have the technology to get this far they have the technology to pass right on by.
I think if they had that sophisticated an understanding of climatology, they’d understand we also occupy an ecological niche and completely destroying humanity would result in massive climate change and the extinction of a number of other species as well. Like, say, everything we’ve domesticated and made dependent upon us for survival.
I seriously had a discussion with a young fellow of fifteen who claimed to have been exiled from his previous social group for having proposed the genocide of all humanity (in the US) to protect the planet on his own napkin calculations that it would give the Earth another two thousand years. When I asked him where he planned to put all the bodies (because huge masses of decomposing carrion are a little bit of a pollutant themselves), he hadn’t included those in his plans.
…the comments on that piece are even worse, lol.
Mr. Gore, I think I finally have come to realize the error of my ways. There’s no longer any doubt in my mind that the human race is nothing more than a blight on this otherwise wonderful orb, and I further realize that the only definitive solution is total eradication of our kind, such that the raping of Gaia may finally cease.
We simply must immediately end our own lives, each and every one of us, so that Mother Earth may begin the healing process.
You first, Mr. Gore. As our noble and honorable leader, I insist.
“Scientist. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
And at this point, my sense of humor goes out for a smoke.
We have no common frame of reference with these people. None. No basis for compromise, because compromise means surrender. Slowly, quickly, doesn’t matter. They will be satisfied with nothing less than our entire existence. The only remaining answer is to treat them as we would any other threat, and kill them. Not for sport. Not for pleasure. They are simply too dangerous to all we hold dear to be allowed to exist.
As someone said, “We’re stuck in that unpleasant in-between time. It’s too late to work within the system, and it’s too early to start shooting the bastards.”
Or words to that effect.
uh-oh
Since we’re gettin all sciency an shit.
I wonder what that quanta, smeared on the event horizion of the black hole of his(Gores)particular reality, would look like?
A skidmark?
“Scientists” have also postulated that Superman and Mighty Mouse would be evenly matched and thus any fight between them would end in a draw.
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