Here Carlin comes closer to being a theologian than most pastors. 7:09 "I think were part of a greater wisdom than we will ever understand". And he isnt being ironic here. It fits in with what he said earlier about conservation being vain and narcissistic, that the attempt by humans to understand and control nature is misguided. Here Carlin forsakes his earlier misapprehensions about religion and embraces his own brand of paganism. Just for laughs. Hypocrisy? Maybe.
@thebloads You're thinking too hard. It's a comedian making people laugh. Carlin says a lot of things throughout his career that are less controversial that could define him as a philosopher of sorts. If you don't agree with this one, then fine, just take it as a stand-up bit. The audience laughs, he does his job, some of us see it profoundly and others do not.
@Schaichopath I may be. But perhaps you're thinking too soft. The job of a comedian may be tangential to truth telling and pedagogy. But there is always a moral to a joke. That's why you laugh, because you see the truth in the lie (the joke). Carlin however, obfuscates the truth. So you are leave the theater agreeing with his misguided opinions. The ones who as you say "see it profoundly" actually agree with him, and therein lies the problem
@thebloads I agree with Carlin on a lot of the things he says. Moreso the small linguistic observations, or the common experiences we all share. I appreciate those observations. But this is just a guy telling jokes. I think it's funny and I like what he says, but I still recycle and conserve electricity, even though this joke tells me it's a lost cause.
I don't believe anyone will see this and change the way they behave, for better or worse. So really, it's harmless.
@Schaichopath People can be impressionable sometimes. 5 years ago I might have actually have agreed with him! And look at the number of people who agree with Slavoj Zizek! Or Russia Today! Or Christianity! But I agree its mostly harmless.
Anyone who says Carlin is a philosopher should watch this video. Hes a comedian who thrives on contrarianism and false rhetoric. How is saving animals being "self important"? Isnt that the diametric opposite of being self important?
I get that he's for common sense but a lot of what he says is also ignorant. Yes the planet has been through a bunch of crap but that doesn't mean we aren't responsible for our actions. He entertains but doesn't go much farther. The planet doesn't just magically self-correct. We are very much capable of ruining life on earth as we know it. Forget nukes. If you have a globe, the fine layer of laquer on it equates to the atmosphere's relative thickness. Isn't much for unchangeable.
He kind of does. Mostly all his comments, including those about previous states of the climate and previous species are misleading. Also he's mistaking self-consciousness for for narcissism is some twisted kind of way. "We have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat? The planet's been through a lot worse than us."
@Jammerjoint not arguing about any of that information but even so it's still not being ignorant, dismissive maybe, embellishing fact, possibly. but hes a comedian if your taking scientific truth from a comedian you have other problems.
Not saying your wrong, just probably reading to much into a comedians words.
It's a pity ol' Mother Earth doesn't share the same opinion as the tree huggers. She'll wipe out millions of trees on her own via volcanoes, lightning, tsunamies, etc. She'll belch crude oil into the oceans at her discretion. She'll poison the air and water when she so desires and (this is the one I want to see) if she wants to crack open her crust, she can even swallow an Earth Day parade.
I watch this whenever I feel too worried. I still do things to help the environment and minimalize our short-term (by which I mean a few thousand, maybe even a million years) impact.
But you've got to watch this now and again to stay loose and remember: Everything you love about the planet can endure and regrow. You just won't be around to see it.
I wholeheartedly disagree on this, as a society, we should strive as hard as we can to create a sustainable envoirnment. It's completely good to UNDUE the damage we have done to enviornment.
Stupid environmentalists. I've been arguing this for years and nobody understands. They all seem to think that once global warming kills everyone, Earth will be a barren wasteland for the rest of eternity, never to support life again.
Yeah, right.
If we want to save the planet we should be worrying about it being eaten by the sun going supernova or by some random passing black hole or something. Very low chance of any of that happening. But I hope it does, that would be some fantastic fireworks.
@DarthFennec Though I agree with your point entirely, I have to point out that there is zero chance that our sun will ever go supernova. It simply doesn't have enough mass. But in about seven billion years, it will run out of hydrogen to burn through nuclear fusion and will expand and consume everything up to Mars. But by then we'll probably either have blown ourselves into nuclear dust or gotten far, far, away from our solar system.
We can definitely kill off most of the species on the planet though. Life will continue and evolution will eventually repopulate in numbers and diversity, but we certainly have the ability to kill the majority of life on it with us. Just look up the causes of the Permian-Triassic extinction and compare them with global warming, specifically due to 'Arctic Methane Release.' If we don't stop the trend now and start sequestering CO2, we're toast and we'll take diversity with us- for a time.
@hyealgebra Well if you care about humanity then environmentalists are a good thing. Carlin's point was that it is impossible for us to kill the planet, but we can definitely kill ourselves.
I knew It long before I saw this video.I am sick of eco freaks who have no love for people but they "care" about animals and plants.Come in the Czech Republic here every one is ready to help dogs...but most of this "good" people who spend 300-400dolars in a month for pet food,won't ever give money to help people in need.
Why do they like animals more then humans? CUZ animals don't Speak that's WHY!
I knew It long before I saw this video.I am sick of eco freaks who have no love for people but they "care" about animals and plants.Come in the Czech Republic here every one is ready to help dogs...but most of this "good" people who spend 300-400dolars in a month for pet food,won't ever give money to help people in need.
Why do they like animals more then human? CUZ animals don't Speak!
I dont agree with the cans and the litter but I did laugh my ass off. He's right about the humane race being fucked up. We make a huge deal out of everything. I am all for helping animals don't get me wrong but species that are in danger do die out and really there's not a lot we can do. We can help a little by helping them survive a little longer but they are gonna die sometime.
He's trying to restore common sense. There are so many really obvious, easy to fix things we've done to destroy the planet, and everyone's hung up on bike paths and plastic bags. There are 2 types of people, the environmentalists who want to make life hell for everyone else and the people who don't give a fuck and refuse to use common sense. There's nobody in the middle like George. You're either for Kyoto or you hate the earth. Assholes.
It's strange that one of the most basic laws of science is ignored so readily. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed. So even if we as a species die the matter that makes up all of us will go on to make something else. As we are and as is everything around us.
he's so right, green activists arent trying to save the planet (even if they think so) they are only making human habitat clean (and im not saying its bad, its great). but in relation to saving animales, . 1 reason is that we dont want to see dolphins and pandas get butchered because it makes us feel bad and we dont want to feel bad, 2 for example we dont kill certain species of snack because they eat rats that are bad for us, people need to stop saying otherwise to feel noble
I wonder if George Carlin is my real biological father. Ive come to a lot of the same conclussions about certain aspects of life and humanity that he has.
He was a very intuitive man. This skit has always been one of my favorites. He used to keep me up at night, just laughing so hard my sides and even my cheekbones would hurt.
He always supported me in my First Amendment Stand Protests to decriminalize women's breasts. When the media and the government stepped in to attack me, George stepped up to give me his back. I just know that he is smiling with me now, everytime I do my protests in Daytona Beach. T.I.T.S. are for him.
A lot of people miss the brilliance in this. He isn't saying that what we do does not affect the earth, he is saying that THE PLANET WILL NOT DIE BECAUSE OF US, WE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF US! We're destroying the inhabitants and enviroments of this place. Plastic bags aren't going to somehow comprimise the integrity of the planet. Rather than "Save The Planet", we should be saying "Save Ourselves", because we're on a fucking trip to becoming nothing more than fossils.
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although this was funny as hell, i hope this guy doesn't think like that for real. The planet is in danger and we're fucked if we don't do something about it!!
@Aval23 the planets not in danger...unless a fuckin asteroid big enough smash the planet into tiny little pieces is on a collision course...in which case the planet will join us humans and animals on the soon-to-be-fucked list
@Aval23 well that wouldnt be so bad if he thought like that because he is kinda right. the planet as a whole isnt in danger. it isnt even anywhere near danger.
the environment as it looks like now is in danger of changing to something that probably will damage nature and life on earth and thats where you are right, but the planet is fine :)
@Aval23 No, no... WE'RE in danger and WE'RE @*#&!% if we don't do anything now about it! You heard? We try to save the planet and things that were going to go to start with, however we can't save ourselves from our own messes... and the answer to the ultimate question is PLASTIC...
All we will do by polluting the planet is render the planet unusable to US.
We will be gone.
But the EARTH will remain. ANOTHER species will evolve to thrive in what we created. And eventually maybe evolve enough to have archaeologists digging through what's left of our cities.
@Aval23 Oi kid, planet's earth been through like 10000000000000 billion fuck load of shit damage then the industrial millennium has created. I dont think a few 50 years of heavy industrial work is goanna fuck up the plannet you fuck shit
@Aval23 the planet is in danger.....but it isnt going to just disappear,just everything on it will die.but earth will heal itself.did u even watch the full vid?
@stygianmessiah ??? i never said that the planet will disappear. that's common sense. and also when i say the planet is in danger i also mean the human race in danger! since we are part of the earth!
@Aval23 lol but he mentioned that in the video...the earth and humans are 2 different entities.what he means is that humans should be putting banners saying "SAVE OURSELVES" instead of "SAVE THE EARTH"........and theres nothing wrong with that so what do u mean "The planet is in danger and we're fucked if we don't do something about it!!"? humans are gonna die but the planet will heal itself.....
@Aval23 However, the fact that we are in danger doesn't necessarily mean that the planet is in the same amount of danger. We aren't exactly indispensable to the global ecosystem.
@elvnears You missed the point. Let us all kill each other with nuclear weapons. Let that radiation sit for millenniums. Guess what's not going anywhere? The planet. Eventually that radiation will dissipate, and life will begin anew with plants or cockroaches or whatever happens to still be hanging around.
@elvnears Nuclear weapons will do nothing more than wipe out our own fucking existence. The planet, however, other than having a few surface cracks maybe, will not be affected in the slightest.
An asteroid the size of Mars hit Earth when it was developing, not to mention numerous asteroids with far more force than any nuke. Nukes aren't going to do it.
@topgun8910 People aren't worried about nukes destroying the planet physically. They won't. People are worried about the radioactive fallout and possibly nuclear winter, etc. But anyway, the planet's not going to be threatened because of us, we just might cause our own extinction.
THE WORLD WILL OUTLIVE US REGARDLESS OF FUCKING PLASTIC OR CANS....LOL. AND FUCK THE EPA.. THEY FUCK IT UP FOR COMPANIES TO SURVIVE IN CALIFORNIA.. CAN WE GET RID OF THE EPA????
I love carlin but I disagree when it comes to nature conservation. His arrogance on this point is logically flawed and even more self-righteous. I love him as much a the next guy, but I think he's misplaced his bitterness on that one:) He's claimed to like rationality and logic/science so his complete dismissal of climate change and the frailty of our planet is a strange reconciliation of ignorance and reality. RIP Carlin, Hicks, Bruce.
@MindfulFuture The state of the planet today is far from what it was in 1993. Put his words into their historical context.
Also the planet is not frail. What has destroyed it so far? My money's on nothing. And I'll wager that the planet will still be hanging around for a good while yet. We might screw ourselves over as a species, but the planet simply doesn't care.
@Schaichopath Do some research, ther world is not much different than it was in '93 (environmentally speaking). And ask any physicist, the earth is far more fragile than you think. While (ofcourse) the planet 'does not care' if we go extinct as a species or not, we surely do. You don't need to get your dander up and try to defend Carlin's joke. He has some views that are fucked up, but is a funny fucker regardless.
@MindfulFuture No I still disagree that the planet is fragile. Ecosystems, maybe. Life, maybe. The planet can take whatever we think we can do to it. Humanity has proven time and again that we are totally awesome at killing. But good luck if you think you're going to knock the universe on its side by throwing an empty can into a pond. The point is that humanity is insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe and it is selfish to believe we can carelessly destroy anything substantial.
@MindfulFuture Well... To be fair the planet will likely be here 'til the sun explodes... We may threaten a lot of the life on our planet, but as far as the rocks go it'll be here.
@stabby1989 No, it doesn't. But thereare common words that we use 'improperly' even though we unmderstand it's adopted meaning/connotation. When someone says "take care of the earth" they usually mean, the environment and the inhabitants.
@GeoCarlinfuckdyomama Are you an idiot or something? I love Carlin, I just am aware that he is human and not always correct..he's still hilarious and makes some great, great points. Relax blowhard
has it been through a fucking 5,000 barrel a day oil spill in the ocean? george carlin is my favorite but everything he mentions are NATURAL disasters.
I'm surprised that people do not get his point. Everything we do is for us not for the planet. People do not want to live on a pile of rubbish All the other animals will adapt or new will appear. Human beings are fucked, most fragile.
@master? ru dick ; this is the truth about the problems with us people! So, bite your tongue! A better world starts with you! If you can't, you're the problem.
a lot of you are reading into this wrong. you are taking this out of the socio-political context in which it was made and are applying it to that of today's.
Take it in the right context people. Carlin is pointing out how self-centered we are. Saving the Planet is a fancy catchphrase and quite meaningless. Really, we such hypocrites to admit that it is our society and civilization that we are ruining. Saying that the 'planet' is doomed doesn't change reality.
Hes soo right.. even if we kill ourself (and millions of other species) by using nuclear, biological and chemical weapons - earth will survive, adapt and keep creating new life.
@EarthHasBurst Take it in context. This is old, like from the early 90s. Almost 20 years ago, there really wasn't a ton of concern for the environment. Certainly not like there is today.
@Schaichopath Well that's true to.lol It's funny, but these days, I don't think he'd get many positive reactions from this one.lol But, like I said, it's funny.
@Schaichopath Oh my god! Almost 20 years, get real. 20 years is nothing! Even if you go back 40 years, the hippies were about the environment, too. It's ok to admit that Carlin made mistakes and wasn't perfect dude.
@MindfulFuture If we're going to think about the cycle of public opinion, think of recent presidents. At the end of Clinton's term, everyone hated the democrats. Then with George Bush in office, everyone hated the republicans. Now Obama is in office and people are back to democrat-bashing. Public opinion cycles every few years on a lot of things.
Even still, if Carlin wants to make fun of save-the-whales people, he can totally do that. His points about humanity's arrogance are not void.
@Schaichopath To sum up 'public opinion' with american presidents/2 party system polls isn't exactly representative of the global community. Carlin can say whatever he wants, ofcourse, but it's all open to scrutiny, too. I just think, of all the things to be overly-self-righteous about (if that's Carlin's criticism), the earth and our enviroinment are in principal, of the most noble.
we aught not to safe nature from its own natural procesess, no. but we aught to limit the harmfull effects of our overpopulous presence here
nature can't really tolerate such an overpopulation. it deals with that. Carlin even said that himself
but we have a knack for surviving nature's methods of population control. and it's spamming them on us now: Bird flue, MRSA, Swine flue. we've got it outcunned
we got to find a way to live within nature despire being a plague, or lower our numbers
he's right, but it's always nice to respect the surroundings you live near. i like to live by his motto, but i dont give a big F you to the lovely mother nature
Mother Nature will take care of that, don't worry!! You don't live NEAR the surroundings, my friend, you live IN THEM! And Lovely Mother Nature has an answer for you!!!!!!
It's not a comedy session..it's a history lesson, RIP Georgie your views and beliefs are more reality based than the people running this planet. It's a joke..NASA wants to spends billions and billions every month for space exploration yet theres people who can't drink a drop of clean water or eat a bowl of rice. Build robots to explore Mars's soil and fuck the ppl who can't eat. I hate this world.
Everything he names that earth has endured through the millions of years are natural occurrences. We as humans have will power, and that will power is replacing just responding without will (like everything else in our ecosystem). He calls Earth "a self correcting system", it is attempting to correct our actions by responding. (I.E. with global warming; or a hurricane.) and those attempts to fix itself are only going to get stronger and more frequent because we're making it that way!
@Schaichopath I am in total agreement with Mr. Carlin, and if he is in fact wrong, which I don't believe he is, why should I care? I will be long gone by the time this planet is.
about it all assumption. You think are pollution is going to take us out, a gamma ray burst from outer space will kill every human on earth in one second solar storm can wipe out the electric infrastructure in this planet
except probability indicates that we are not going to be wiped out by a gamma ray burst, but we almost certainly will be adversely affected by global warming in the near future, if not wiped out in the distant
Here Carlin comes closer to being a theologian than most pastors. 7:09 "I think were part of a greater wisdom than we will ever understand". And he isnt being ironic here. It fits in with what he said earlier about conservation being vain and narcissistic, that the attempt by humans to understand and control nature is misguided. Here Carlin forsakes his earlier misapprehensions about religion and embraces his own brand of paganism. Just for laughs. Hypocrisy? Maybe.
thebloads 3 weeks ago
@thebloads You're thinking too hard. It's a comedian making people laugh. Carlin says a lot of things throughout his career that are less controversial that could define him as a philosopher of sorts. If you don't agree with this one, then fine, just take it as a stand-up bit. The audience laughs, he does his job, some of us see it profoundly and others do not.
Schaichopath 3 weeks ago
@Schaichopath I may be. But perhaps you're thinking too soft. The job of a comedian may be tangential to truth telling and pedagogy. But there is always a moral to a joke. That's why you laugh, because you see the truth in the lie (the joke). Carlin however, obfuscates the truth. So you are leave the theater agreeing with his misguided opinions. The ones who as you say "see it profoundly" actually agree with him, and therein lies the problem
thebloads 3 weeks ago
@thebloads I agree with Carlin on a lot of the things he says. Moreso the small linguistic observations, or the common experiences we all share. I appreciate those observations. But this is just a guy telling jokes. I think it's funny and I like what he says, but I still recycle and conserve electricity, even though this joke tells me it's a lost cause.
I don't believe anyone will see this and change the way they behave, for better or worse. So really, it's harmless.
Schaichopath 3 weeks ago
@Schaichopath People can be impressionable sometimes. 5 years ago I might have actually have agreed with him! And look at the number of people who agree with Slavoj Zizek! Or Russia Today! Or Christianity! But I agree its mostly harmless.
thebloads 3 weeks ago
Anyone who says Carlin is a philosopher should watch this video. Hes a comedian who thrives on contrarianism and false rhetoric. How is saving animals being "self important"? Isnt that the diametric opposite of being self important?
thebloads 3 weeks ago
I get that he's for common sense but a lot of what he says is also ignorant. Yes the planet has been through a bunch of crap but that doesn't mean we aren't responsible for our actions. He entertains but doesn't go much farther. The planet doesn't just magically self-correct. We are very much capable of ruining life on earth as we know it. Forget nukes. If you have a globe, the fine layer of laquer on it equates to the atmosphere's relative thickness. Isn't much for unchangeable.
Jammerjoint 2 months ago
@Jammerjoint no problem with what you said but he's not ignorant, he doesn't claim we are not responsible for our actions.
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He kind of does. Mostly all his comments, including those about previous states of the climate and previous species are misleading. Also he's mistaking self-consciousness for for narcissism is some twisted kind of way. "We have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat? The planet's been through a lot worse than us."
Jammerjoint 2 months ago
@Jammerjoint not arguing about any of that information but even so it's still not being ignorant, dismissive maybe, embellishing fact, possibly. but hes a comedian if your taking scientific truth from a comedian you have other problems.
Not saying your wrong, just probably reading to much into a comedians words.
MrPyrulen 2 months ago
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Fair enough.
Jammerjoint 2 months ago
Old but gold ;)
melanef 3 months ago
What were those hecklers yelling? Anyone?
Lockjaw95 5 months ago
@Lockjaw95 A few environmentalists... don't give a fuck about them...
Farshid1980 1 month ago
It's a pity ol' Mother Earth doesn't share the same opinion as the tree huggers. She'll wipe out millions of trees on her own via volcanoes, lightning, tsunamies, etc. She'll belch crude oil into the oceans at her discretion. She'll poison the air and water when she so desires and (this is the one I want to see) if she wants to crack open her crust, she can even swallow an Earth Day parade.
peetee1000 7 months ago
"Whaaat? Are these fucking people kidding me?"
niptuck117 7 months ago
plastic assholes!
neekolaki 7 months ago 3
I watch this whenever I feel too worried. I still do things to help the environment and minimalize our short-term (by which I mean a few thousand, maybe even a million years) impact.
But you've got to watch this now and again to stay loose and remember: Everything you love about the planet can endure and regrow. You just won't be around to see it.
MoonShadowWolfe 7 months ago
He fuckin nailed this one. Knocked it out of the park even with douchebag hecklers yelling. The master. The greatest of all time.
TheChoada 9 months ago
I wholeheartedly disagree on this, as a society, we should strive as hard as we can to create a sustainable envoirnment. It's completely good to UNDUE the damage we have done to enviornment.
mattisthegodofwar 10 months ago
@mattisthegodofwar well then you don't understand. The enviroment is going to kill US not the planet. Therefore: Save ourselves, not the planet.
HermSperm 10 months ago
The Planet is fine. The people are fucked.
ChickenUnderwear 10 months ago
Had 2 watch this on earth day.
cabooses1fan 10 months ago
Haha, Happy Earth Day! Remember to love Mother Earth! =p
olias89 10 months ago
This is like Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense."
stellar876 10 months ago
@gman99771 No, he didn't predict HIV. It was already widely known for years before this special was made.
CoolerKing37 10 months ago
Stupid environmentalists. I've been arguing this for years and nobody understands. They all seem to think that once global warming kills everyone, Earth will be a barren wasteland for the rest of eternity, never to support life again.
Yeah, right.
If we want to save the planet we should be worrying about it being eaten by the sun going supernova or by some random passing black hole or something. Very low chance of any of that happening. But I hope it does, that would be some fantastic fireworks.
DarthFennec 10 months ago
@DarthFennec Though I agree with your point entirely, I have to point out that there is zero chance that our sun will ever go supernova. It simply doesn't have enough mass. But in about seven billion years, it will run out of hydrogen to burn through nuclear fusion and will expand and consume everything up to Mars. But by then we'll probably either have blown ourselves into nuclear dust or gotten far, far, away from our solar system.
Levisatrum 10 months ago
We can definitely kill off most of the species on the planet though. Life will continue and evolution will eventually repopulate in numbers and diversity, but we certainly have the ability to kill the majority of life on it with us. Just look up the causes of the Permian-Triassic extinction and compare them with global warming, specifically due to 'Arctic Methane Release.' If we don't stop the trend now and start sequestering CO2, we're toast and we'll take diversity with us- for a time.
fabricondutube 11 months ago
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@NewWorldOklahoma alex jones is a fucking retard
toiletsrus 11 months ago
Life on Earth can almost never disappear.
danthecat21 11 months ago
Why are we here?
PLASTIC!
ProtestantIRA 11 months ago
beautiful
whonotmeyou 1 year ago
finally a person that agrees with me that environmentalists are fucked up
hyealgebra 1 year ago
@hyealgebra Well if you care about humanity then environmentalists are a good thing. Carlin's point was that it is impossible for us to kill the planet, but we can definitely kill ourselves.
toiletsrus 11 months ago
to answer the age old question "Why are we here?"...PLASTIC!...ASSSHOLLLE!! Carlin cracks me up,lol.
Fpockets 1 year ago
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I knew It long before I saw this video.I am sick of eco freaks who have no love for people but they "care" about animals and plants.Come in the Czech Republic here every one is ready to help dogs...but most of this "good" people who spend 300-400dolars in a month for pet food,won't ever give money to help people in need.
Why do they like animals more then humans? CUZ animals don't Speak that's WHY!
mastakur 1 year ago
I knew It long before I saw this video.I am sick of eco freaks who have no love for people but they "care" about animals and plants.Come in the Czech Republic here every one is ready to help dogs...but most of this "good" people who spend 300-400dolars in a month for pet food,won't ever give money to help people in need.
Why do they like animals more then human? CUZ animals don't Speak!
mastakur 1 year ago
I have watched this like 5 times, just realized that the "virus" he's talking about, is HIV....god i feel so dumb
rebel2025 1 year ago
"Pack your shit, we're going away!"
lunarmantra 1 year ago
I dont agree with the cans and the litter but I did laugh my ass off. He's right about the humane race being fucked up. We make a huge deal out of everything. I am all for helping animals don't get me wrong but species that are in danger do die out and really there's not a lot we can do. We can help a little by helping them survive a little longer but they are gonna die sometime.
Writer4ever779 1 year ago
Bloody BRILLIANT! I LOVE George!!!
MsTweetie 1 year ago
How true, How true! You tell em' G.C.! LOL! R.I.P. and ty 4 the years of laughter and thought provoking satire.
ricogoldstar 1 year ago
We are not out to save the planet, we are out to save ourselves and the "human race". We don't REALLY care about the PLANET!
MsJoanieK 1 year ago
He's trying to restore common sense. There are so many really obvious, easy to fix things we've done to destroy the planet, and everyone's hung up on bike paths and plastic bags. There are 2 types of people, the environmentalists who want to make life hell for everyone else and the people who don't give a fuck and refuse to use common sense. There's nobody in the middle like George. You're either for Kyoto or you hate the earth. Assholes.
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luwiz 1 year ago
dont matter in a couple hundred years humans will live on the moon and mars and plastic can be littered there
halotango3 1 year ago
OMG 6:24-6:57 is he talking about aids? hmmm interesting
zulema9927 1 year ago
@zulema9927 yup...
Malfaxi 1 year ago
@zulema9927 Yep
cijackson1 1 year ago
@zulema9927 Yes he is talking about AIDS.
WSW2004 1 year ago
It's strange that one of the most basic laws of science is ignored so readily. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed. So even if we as a species die the matter that makes up all of us will go on to make something else. As we are and as is everything around us.
CazzaMcSpazza 1 year ago
he's so right, green activists arent trying to save the planet (even if they think so) they are only making human habitat clean (and im not saying its bad, its great). but in relation to saving animales, . 1 reason is that we dont want to see dolphins and pandas get butchered because it makes us feel bad and we dont want to feel bad, 2 for example we dont kill certain species of snack because they eat rats that are bad for us, people need to stop saying otherwise to feel noble
oded680 1 year ago
Pure genius . . .
deliotk 1 year ago
I wonder if George Carlin is my real biological father. Ive come to a lot of the same conclussions about certain aspects of life and humanity that he has.
Natedawg422 1 year ago
He was a very intuitive man. This skit has always been one of my favorites. He used to keep me up at night, just laughing so hard my sides and even my cheekbones would hurt.
He always supported me in my First Amendment Stand Protests to decriminalize women's breasts. When the media and the government stepped in to attack me, George stepped up to give me his back. I just know that he is smiling with me now, everytime I do my protests in Daytona Beach. T.I.T.S. are for him.
R.I.P., Buddie
Wildrosestands 1 year ago
Plastic.....asshole!
UnSelfHomicide 1 year ago
A lot of people miss the brilliance in this. He isn't saying that what we do does not affect the earth, he is saying that THE PLANET WILL NOT DIE BECAUSE OF US, WE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF US! We're destroying the inhabitants and enviroments of this place. Plastic bags aren't going to somehow comprimise the integrity of the planet. Rather than "Save The Planet", we should be saying "Save Ourselves", because we're on a fucking trip to becoming nothing more than fossils.
pownjhell 1 year ago 164
@pownjhell This guy gets it.
Schaichopath 1 year ago 66
Research before you speak, Carlin was/is a prophet. Die now assholes.
J6larson6L 1 year ago
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although this was funny as hell, i hope this guy doesn't think like that for real. The planet is in danger and we're fucked if we don't do something about it!!
Aval23 1 year ago
@Aval23 George Carlin has been dead for a little while now.
Schaichopath 1 year ago 9
@Schaichopath Yeah, he doesn't think anything.
Jallorn 1 year ago
@Aval23 the planets not in danger...unless a fuckin asteroid big enough smash the planet into tiny little pieces is on a collision course...in which case the planet will join us humans and animals on the soon-to-be-fucked list
priyahthewhite 1 year ago
@Aval23 well that wouldnt be so bad if he thought like that because he is kinda right. the planet as a whole isnt in danger. it isnt even anywhere near danger.
the environment as it looks like now is in danger of changing to something that probably will damage nature and life on earth and thats where you are right, but the planet is fine :)
KasperZdk 1 year ago
@Aval23 didn't you hear the man? Quit worrying about EVERYTHING. The earth is fine...YOUR fucked and so is everyone else...accept it...
RGProductions 1 year ago
@Aval23 No, no... WE'RE in danger and WE'RE @*#&!% if we don't do anything now about it! You heard? We try to save the planet and things that were going to go to start with, however we can't save ourselves from our own messes... and the answer to the ultimate question is PLASTIC...
Malfaxi 1 year ago
@Aval23 what do you plan to do about it, hero?
Skevinblack7 1 year ago
@Skevinblack7 i'm not saying that i can do anything about it. it takes the whole poplulation's effort to fix what we've done
Aval23 1 year ago
@Aval23 i almost always agree with him but not really on this
anonwillprevail247 1 year ago
@Aval23
And you completely miss the point.
All we will do by polluting the planet is render the planet unusable to US.
We will be gone.
But the EARTH will remain. ANOTHER species will evolve to thrive in what we created. And eventually maybe evolve enough to have archaeologists digging through what's left of our cities.
But the EARTH will be fine.
prometheus59650 1 year ago
@Aval23 YOU ARE AN IDIOT
songokumone 1 year ago
@Aval23 this guy? what are you u 7 or some shit? get the fuck outta here kid.
Schutzstaffel23 1 year ago
@Aval23
wow, I hope you don't think like this for real.
:|
Arkenx 11 months ago
@Aval23 Oi kid, planet's earth been through like 10000000000000 billion fuck load of shit damage then the industrial millennium has created. I dont think a few 50 years of heavy industrial work is goanna fuck up the plannet you fuck shit
bluebirdliao 10 months ago
@Aval23 the planet is in danger.....but it isnt going to just disappear,just everything on it will die.but earth will heal itself.did u even watch the full vid?
stygianmessiah 8 months ago
@stygianmessiah ??? i never said that the planet will disappear. that's common sense. and also when i say the planet is in danger i also mean the human race in danger! since we are part of the earth!
Aval23 8 months ago
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@Aval23 lol but he mentioned that in the video...the earth and humans are 2 different entities.what he means is that humans should be putting banners saying "SAVE OURSELVES" instead of "SAVE THE EARTH"........and theres nothing wrong with that so what do u mean "The planet is in danger and we're fucked if we don't do something about it!!"? humans are gonna die but the planet will heal itself.....
stygianmessiah 8 months ago
@Aval23 However, the fact that we are in danger doesn't necessarily mean that the planet is in the same amount of danger. We aren't exactly indispensable to the global ecosystem.
MoonShadowWolfe 8 months ago
brilliant...i got the great luck to catch him in one of his last performances in San Antonio TX a few years back.
nickdread 1 year ago
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Maybe he has never heard the word "nuclear weapon".
elvnears 1 year ago
@elvnears You missed the point. Let us all kill each other with nuclear weapons. Let that radiation sit for millenniums. Guess what's not going anywhere? The planet. Eventually that radiation will dissipate, and life will begin anew with plants or cockroaches or whatever happens to still be hanging around.
It just won't be us.
Schaichopath 1 year ago 55
@Schaichopath Exactly.
blipbo 1 year ago
@Schaichopath
LOL.
I LOVE this. Do you see this conceit? That the Earth will not survive without us.
LO freaking L
prometheus59650 1 year ago
@elvnears ITS ACCTUALLY 2 WORDS
ThyWizzzard420 1 year ago
@elvnears he hasnt but the planet will still be here
JAMEVINUN 1 year ago
@elvnears Nuclear weapons will do nothing more than wipe out our own fucking existence. The planet, however, other than having a few surface cracks maybe, will not be affected in the slightest.
kaberichatterjee1 1 year ago
An asteroid the size of Mars hit Earth when it was developing, not to mention numerous asteroids with far more force than any nuke. Nukes aren't going to do it.
topgun8910 11 months ago
@topgun8910 People aren't worried about nukes destroying the planet physically. They won't. People are worried about the radioactive fallout and possibly nuclear winter, etc. But anyway, the planet's not going to be threatened because of us, we just might cause our own extinction.
cril1001001 10 months ago
@elvnears nuclear weapon is two words
Tobskin 9 months ago 6
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
XXXXLOWRIDERXXXX 1 year ago
THE WORLD WILL OUTLIVE US REGARDLESS OF FUCKING PLASTIC OR CANS....LOL. AND FUCK THE EPA.. THEY FUCK IT UP FOR COMPANIES TO SURVIVE IN CALIFORNIA.. CAN WE GET RID OF THE EPA????
XXXXLOWRIDERXXXX 1 year ago
@XXXXLOWRIDERXXXX Please turn off your caps lock key, sir.
Schaichopath 1 year ago 2
I love carlin but I disagree when it comes to nature conservation. His arrogance on this point is logically flawed and even more self-righteous. I love him as much a the next guy, but I think he's misplaced his bitterness on that one:) He's claimed to like rationality and logic/science so his complete dismissal of climate change and the frailty of our planet is a strange reconciliation of ignorance and reality. RIP Carlin, Hicks, Bruce.
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
@MindfulFuture Nobody is perfect, not jesus, not your mother or father, not even Carlin ;P
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
@MindfulFuture The state of the planet today is far from what it was in 1993. Put his words into their historical context.
Also the planet is not frail. What has destroyed it so far? My money's on nothing. And I'll wager that the planet will still be hanging around for a good while yet. We might screw ourselves over as a species, but the planet simply doesn't care.
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MindfulFuture 1 year ago
@Schaichopath Do some research, ther world is not much different than it was in '93 (environmentally speaking). And ask any physicist, the earth is far more fragile than you think. While (ofcourse) the planet 'does not care' if we go extinct as a species or not, we surely do. You don't need to get your dander up and try to defend Carlin's joke. He has some views that are fucked up, but is a funny fucker regardless.
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
@MindfulFuture No I still disagree that the planet is fragile. Ecosystems, maybe. Life, maybe. The planet can take whatever we think we can do to it. Humanity has proven time and again that we are totally awesome at killing. But good luck if you think you're going to knock the universe on its side by throwing an empty can into a pond. The point is that humanity is insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe and it is selfish to believe we can carelessly destroy anything substantial.
Schaichopath 1 year ago
@MindfulFuture Well... To be fair the planet will likely be here 'til the sun explodes... We may threaten a lot of the life on our planet, but as far as the rocks go it'll be here.
stabby1989 1 year ago
@stabby1989 Yes, 'earth' is often used as a word which encompasses the life upon it.
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
@MindfulFuture Not really... That would be called the Earth's ecosystem.
stabby1989 1 year ago
@stabby1989 I mean when it is used in the context of a debate re: pollution etc.
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
@MindfulFuture Just because other people use improper terms it doesn't mean that you have to.
stabby1989 1 year ago
@stabby1989 No, it doesn't. But thereare common words that we use 'improperly' even though we unmderstand it's adopted meaning/connotation. When someone says "take care of the earth" they usually mean, the environment and the inhabitants.
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
@MindfulFuture Carlin was referring to the actual planet though.
stabby1989 1 year ago
@stabby1989 oh yeah? Is that why he mentions animals? I think this conversation has run it's course, take care..:)
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
@MindfulFuture George Carlin used to fuck your mama in the ass while you were in school.
GeoCarlinfuckdyomama 1 year ago
@GeoCarlinfuckdyomama Are you an idiot or something? I love Carlin, I just am aware that he is human and not always correct..he's still hilarious and makes some great, great points. Relax blowhard
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
@MindfulFuture your mother used yo give the best blowjobs since Linda Lovelace had her braces removed according to Sam Kinasin.
GeoCarlinfuckdyomama 1 year ago
@GeoCarlinfuckdyomama You are acting like a goof and Carlin would be embarassed of your behaviour, go eat a bag of dicks.
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
this guys needs the shut up i got to 1:00 and i need to stop it
Sr9896 1 year ago
@Sr9896 1. He's a comedian, lighten up. 2. Who are you to talk? You can't even form a sentence.
Schaichopath 1 year ago 3
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has it been through a fucking 5,000 barrel a day oil spill in the ocean? george carlin is my favorite but everything he mentions are NATURAL disasters.
Jasnels 1 year ago
@Jasnels Guess what? The planet will still be here. Crude oil is already inside the Earth, all we did is move it.
Schaichopath 1 year ago
@Schaichopath ya... into the ocean.
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Jasnels 1 year ago
@masterrudik...I think its u thats fucked! George Carlin is dead on accurate about arrogancy and stupidity of humans..deal with it :)
weathermanx2005 1 year ago
Carlin is dead on accurate :)
weathermanx2005 1 year ago
Carlin is dead on accurate..haters hate :)
weathermanx2005 1 year ago
I'm surprised that people do not get his point. Everything we do is for us not for the planet. People do not want to live on a pile of rubbish All the other animals will adapt or new will appear. Human beings are fucked, most fragile.
P0581 1 year ago
Utter brilliance! :)
weathermanx2005 1 year ago
"Lava in the living room" !!!
brotherpate 1 year ago
@master? ru dick ; this is the truth about the problems with us people! So, bite your tongue! A better world starts with you! If you can't, you're the problem.
hansyvonnemulder 1 year ago
a lot of you are reading into this wrong. you are taking this out of the socio-political context in which it was made and are applying it to that of today's.
bcpsleeperkid4 1 year ago
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It's not people that are fucked, George Carlin, it's you.
MasterRudik 1 year ago
@MasterRudik by him saying the "people", that includes himself, don't take it so seriously its a joke
ouellette666 1 year ago
@MasterRudik Bad taste.
Schaichopath 1 year ago
LOL, I'm definitely one of those "save the planet" people, but I still find this hilarious. XD He makes some very good points.
MistressD 1 year ago
Well said!
mksalva 1 year ago
George got this right.
jtschetter 1 year ago
Take it in the right context people. Carlin is pointing out how self-centered we are. Saving the Planet is a fancy catchphrase and quite meaningless. Really, we such hypocrites to admit that it is our society and civilization that we are ruining. Saying that the 'planet' is doomed doesn't change reality.
vibhutesagar 1 year ago
Carlin...he knew too much!
RIP buddy
foolsgoldsoma 1 year ago 3
Carlin always did a fantastic job pointing out how arrogant and delusional we are as a species.
foolsgoldsoma 1 year ago
well, did you understand irony? he talks about the human race killing itself...
zagyex 2 years ago
Hes soo right.. even if we kill ourself (and millions of other species) by using nuclear, biological and chemical weapons - earth will survive, adapt and keep creating new life.
nadoeloiskat 2 years ago 3
This man is a genius :)
sorinssscarlat 2 years ago 29
This is the first time I've disagreed with George Carlin.
EarthHasBurst 2 years ago
@EarthHasBurst Take it in context. This is old, like from the early 90s. Almost 20 years ago, there really wasn't a ton of concern for the environment. Certainly not like there is today.
Schaichopath 2 years ago
@Schaichopath Well that's true to.lol It's funny, but these days, I don't think he'd get many positive reactions from this one.lol But, like I said, it's funny.
EarthHasBurst 2 years ago
@Schaichopath Oh my god! Almost 20 years, get real. 20 years is nothing! Even if you go back 40 years, the hippies were about the environment, too. It's ok to admit that Carlin made mistakes and wasn't perfect dude.
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
@MindfulFuture If we're going to think about the cycle of public opinion, think of recent presidents. At the end of Clinton's term, everyone hated the democrats. Then with George Bush in office, everyone hated the republicans. Now Obama is in office and people are back to democrat-bashing. Public opinion cycles every few years on a lot of things.
Even still, if Carlin wants to make fun of save-the-whales people, he can totally do that. His points about humanity's arrogance are not void.
Schaichopath 1 year ago
@Schaichopath To sum up 'public opinion' with american presidents/2 party system polls isn't exactly representative of the global community. Carlin can say whatever he wants, ofcourse, but it's all open to scrutiny, too. I just think, of all the things to be overly-self-righteous about (if that's Carlin's criticism), the earth and our enviroinment are in principal, of the most noble.
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
@MindfulFuture yeah he sonly human. just an epic human
jeffreycoley 1 year ago
@jeffreycoley I agree , epic :)
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
did you watch till the end?
zagyex 2 years ago
He does say "the planet is fine, its the people that are fucked."
Xakryn 1 year ago
Actually, this is the first time I've agreed with this guy. Although he was more like a rational creative ranter than a comedian...
hodoboc 1 year ago
@EarthHasBurst same here, but that's ok. Carlin wasn't always right either.
MindfulFuture 1 year ago
Then you're taking this too seriously.
Schaichopath 2 years ago
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOL
kvlt 2 years ago
we aught not to safe nature from its own natural procesess, no. but we aught to limit the harmfull effects of our overpopulous presence here
nature can't really tolerate such an overpopulation. it deals with that. Carlin even said that himself
but we have a knack for surviving nature's methods of population control. and it's spamming them on us now: Bird flue, MRSA, Swine flue. we've got it outcunned
we got to find a way to live within nature despire being a plague, or lower our numbers
lygophile 2 years ago
"Outcunned".....lemme look that up!!! Gosh, everytime somebody says somethin' these days, I gotta go grab a ^%&*^#@ dictioary!!!!!!
buzzclick500 2 years ago
And on top o' that, I spelled "dictionary" wrong!! Aaaaaagggghhhh!!!
buzzclick500 2 years ago
he's right, but it's always nice to respect the surroundings you live near. i like to live by his motto, but i dont give a big F you to the lovely mother nature
p00pdawg 2 years ago
Mother Nature will take care of that, don't worry!! You don't live NEAR the surroundings, my friend, you live IN THEM! And Lovely Mother Nature has an answer for you!!!!!!
buzzclick500 2 years ago
That's George at the top of his game. Great stuff. Thank you for posting it.
Meddle1969 2 years ago 3
bless you, george carlin.
JoeyDLP 2 years ago 8
It's not a comedy session..it's a history lesson, RIP Georgie your views and beliefs are more reality based than the people running this planet. It's a joke..NASA wants to spends billions and billions every month for space exploration yet theres people who can't drink a drop of clean water or eat a bowl of rice. Build robots to explore Mars's soil and fuck the ppl who can't eat. I hate this world.
SumNJFella 2 years ago 5
with that logic you can permanently throw r&d out the window. id love to see what the future looks like in that case
slingshot2427 2 years ago
Everything he names that earth has endured through the millions of years are natural occurrences. We as humans have will power, and that will power is replacing just responding without will (like everything else in our ecosystem). He calls Earth "a self correcting system", it is attempting to correct our actions by responding. (I.E. with global warming; or a hurricane.) and those attempts to fix itself are only going to get stronger and more frequent because we're making it that way!
rastamon1188 2 years ago
I don't really think the Earth makes hurricanes because it doesn't like the way we're acting.
Schaichopath 2 years ago
Hurricanes are just big scrubbing machines that clean the crap off the coastlines every so often, & they're VERY EFFICIENT!!
buzzclick500 2 years ago
@Schaichopath I am in total agreement with Mr. Carlin, and if he is in fact wrong, which I don't believe he is, why should I care? I will be long gone by the time this planet is.
ryanlovesvideoclips 1 year ago
about it all assumption. You think are pollution is going to take us out, a gamma ray burst from outer space will kill every human on earth in one second solar storm can wipe out the electric infrastructure in this planet
Jmerino7 2 years ago
Yeah, so fuck it if someone leaves a Styrofoam cup in a field somewhere. We have bigger issues we could worry about.
Schaichopath 2 years ago
Yep i agree with you
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mellowmark1 2 years ago
except probability indicates that we are not going to be wiped out by a gamma ray burst, but we almost certainly will be adversely affected by global warming in the near future, if not wiped out in the distant
slingshot2427 2 years ago 2