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Today is Earth Day, a celebration that's supposed to focus on attention on ecological balance — keeping our planet green and healthy. But as futurist Jamais Cascio points out in an essay published today, the point of environmentalism isn't to protect the planet — Earth has survived much worse than a little carbon emissions, thank you very much. Remember that asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs? Way worse than aerosols in the atmosphere, and yet the planet survived. Cascio argues that the unspoken point of environmentalism is to save human civilization. More »
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