Akira The Don, George Carlin - Earth & Plastic lyrics
[Akira The Don, George Carlin - Earth & Plastic lyrics]
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 it'self
It will cleanse it'self
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 it's children
Could be the only reason the
Earth allowed us to
Be spawned from it in the first place
It wanted plastic for it'self
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
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 it'self
It will cleanse it'self
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 it's children
Could be the only reason the
Earth allowed us to
Be spawned from it in the first place
It wanted plastic for it'self
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