NOTE that this is an edition of the original video, and that isn't mentioned in the description.
Check the original video, for example here [youtu.be/1gPgFHMZfGA].
Only small parts were edited (and the edition is well done), but still, if you edit the original work of an artist, the least you can do is to mention that you did so.
Although, it might be that, if it wasn't you who did the edition, you didn't not realised about it yet.
George is right. Though, theoretically, it is possible for human beings to destroy the planet. That is, to destroy the iron rock that we call Earth. The technology exists for us to literally blow the Earth into an oblivion. That being said, I do believe we should have some level of respect for our habitat. But these environmentalists, who are really just anti-industrialists, really do make me sick.
@itcanbecheezcaketime Makes no difference, if we blow earth up it just becomes many little earths. Maybe that is why we are here, to create many earth babies floating through space...and plastic.
Humans are accelerating extinction rates. We're trying to stop that because biodiversity is incredibly important. Don't get me wrong Carlin is a comedic genius, but he comes off as rather ignorant here. Yeah yeah yeah, hate me all you want.
I'm watching the original version of this on HBO and it's slightly different... what the fuck? I don't mean editing, I mean he literally says things slightly different. Did they film the same show multiple times or something???
@xCrazyxJayx Yeah, they probably would. It could be that this is in a different city, so it's a different night. Same show, same points to address, but he's human. It isn't a song to rehearse, he can't go and do a big long show and say it exactly the same, word for word. The spirit is the same each time but the actually logistics is tweaked a little.
@ArcVaranus I understand that he doesn't do it exactly the same every time he performs it... but it's the same Special, and the same Set. It's like they released Jammin' In New York twice.
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What ever he says is true... and may happen quick if the whole earth opens up today and every single human and the things he created are burnt by the earth's core. but if it happens naturally then it is a slow slow process that might take 100s, 1000s or may be millions of years.
This means at least for the next 100 generations we have the responsibility to keep the planet clean.
@Kevinisdefgonnadoit He has a really good point here. the earth is dying because of stupid people like you that cannot hear a message when it is spelled out to you.
So true again...sage Carlin says it best...I'm sick and tired of having to give way these environmentalism BS in almost any subject I study in uni. (and No I don't ever vote for Republican).
Bingo. Once again, he nails it. This was the huge failure of the green movement. A semantic fuck up. Nobody cares (nor should they) about the planet. It will survive. We, on the other hand, are doomed. If our pollution doesn't kill us, our religion surely will. Pack your bags, folks. We're goin' away.
@DRisLegend200919 DId you not get the whole fucking point of this video. Everything we do is nature. We consider ourselves to be above it but we are not. For fuck sake are you exactly the type of idiot he is describing.
Not one of George's most intelligent bits, to say the least. The bit about endangered species was especially dumb. As someone commented, is he going to say something funny at some point? It's just a rant. And one that contradicts itself in bizarre ways. Oh well, maybe some kind of pharmaceutical effect.
@GiantSandles So when earthquakes and volcanoes destroy "natural" habitats... that's just :natural." But when humans do it - it's non-natural? Interesting. Please expand on your hypothesis as to how humans are not a part of nature.
@sooperknob Well, I don't believe in God, so I don't think there was any conscious choice behind earthquakes or volcanoes. As for the rest of your comment, I addressed that in my other comment - which you probably didn't see before you responded, and if so, fair enough.
@GiantSandles I don't believe in God either - I'm just trying to make this a logic debate, and not an emotional one. We can all feel for the death of a living creature - but how human action may or may not effect the planet or other species is the ultimate question. Species come and go - humans will eventually go - as will most other living creatures that surround us... so why try to prolong one specific planetary state? Isn't that concept in and of itself, unnatural?
@sooperknob If you're asking 'why is it different when we do it', we are clearly capable of reflecting upon our actions - and appreciating reasons for NOT fucking with everything else - in a way that other animals simply aren't.
@GiantSandles What if the sun exploded tomorrow and destroyed the entire planet? What would be the point of your appreciation then? What would your attempts to have controlled nature and saved animals have accomplished? The simple fact is, we will eventually be gone - and any traces of our existence will ultimately be obliterated... regardless of anyone's "saving" ways.
@sooperknob You misunderstand me, when we drive out animals from their habitat, it's OUR fault that if they die early. Taking that into consideration, your argument of "We'll all die some day" could easily be applied to the following scenario; Mr Jones beats Mr Smith half to death because Mr Smith has something that Mr Jones wants. Mr Jones can justify - with your logic - not taking Mr Smith to a hospital by saying "He'd have died some day anyway, so it doesn't matter."
@GiantSandles But you theory fails logic and human evolution by jumping to the "hospital" argument. Prior to going to the hospital you assume that all humans, in their nature, want to beat and or kill other humans for the sake of material gain. However, that is not in our nature; for if every human beat or killed ever other human they encountered, we'd never have evolved to the most dominant life form on the planet. It simply isn't our nature to destroy each other, although many believe it is.
>Prior to going to the hospital you assume that all humans, in their nature, want to beat and or kill other humans for the sake of material gain.
I said no such thing, I'm saying that the situation I described is analogous to the situation of consciously driving other species to the brink of destruction.
@GiantSandles You didn't say it, but it's the basis of your argument. For, your primary reasoning for humans driving other species to extinction is based on the assumption that we'd drive ourselves to extinction by not providing care for our others. The simple fact is - we do.
Furthermore, why should a conscious dominant species feel "sorry" for said dominance? As meddling mice left hiding in the bush, should we have asked the dinosaurs to step aside so we could have evolved earlier?
1) It was all hypothetical, I made no such presuppositions about the human race in general. You're either misreading or deliberately misrepresenting my position.
2) I've addressed the 'why is it different for us?' question before. Basically, we are equipped with a level of rationality that allows us to think and reflect upon our behaviour and it's consequences in a way that - to my knowledge - no other species can or has been able to. It's a notable distinction.
@GiantSandles Sure thing! But species have been endangered before we even existed, and species will continue to be endangered long after we're gone. That's not to say that we shouldn't feel guilty for the species that we DID endanger ourselves, but perhaps that was nature's plan all along. After all, everything else on this planet seems to have a purpose, why would we be special? Earth has had a purpose for us, all along.
@GiantSandles Whoa dude, easy with the swearing! I believe that nature is capable of balancing itself, so in that sense, everything is here for that purpose. That's my belief, and you might call that 'dumb', but I couldn't care less :D
But there's no denying that us humans are quite destructive. Nature will take care of that too, eventually.
I agree that there is a lot of sensationalist propaganda floating around but in my humble opinion you can never be too worried about the enviornment, you can be too ignorant of the threats we are facing though.
@substanti8 Actually, he's spot on. You just happen to resent the fact he's talking about you. The planet has been here for a long time creating and knocking out species. You miss his point completely. That you call him a right wring crank is arrogent of you. That statement makes you a left wing dumbass. He, like all others are free to see a thing that does not incorporate a "side".
@substanti8 I'll go a step futher on that, because I think I can see what your response will be. The rate of extinction is irrelevent. All will be extinct by the end. The use of numbers to create fear amongst those who simply want to live there life is your problem and one you will take to us. He called you out, plain and simple. And you you picked a specific of what he said in an attempt to discredit what he said. Humans increase the extinxtion rate? Fine. What allows for humans to be?
@Wintermute01001 George made lots of jokes in this video. If what he said doesn't seem funny to you, you sense of humor may be underdeveloped, or possibly you just don't agree with the views he expressed. If you are a greenie or a hippy or so-called "environmentalist" your views on nature and the state of the planet are likely to be opposed to George's, in which case ths performance here would be unfunny---for you.
@Wintermute01001 are you kidding? This guy is funny and truthful at the same time. He is not your typical comedian. He was doing comedy for 48 years and people loved it. Who else can you name that has done the same? This man was awesome, I was actually pretty upset when he passed.
Al Gore and others have huge investments in "green" ventures. That's what this is about. Companies are buying up carbon credits. It's all about money, not saving the planet. After all the things we do to each other as human beings, suddenly we want to save the planet? It's total hypocrisy and fear mongering designed to take money from the poor and middle class and give it to the rich. More redistribution of wealth.
@surfer53 strange how so many of the 'Gore worshipers' have forgotten what Al's best buddy in the 90's, "Mr Enron" Kenneth Lay tried to foist on us through Enron. Gore's association with with Lay alone is enough to tell you who's side he is really on... and it ain't us and it ain't the environment either. Okay, there's my rant, hope you have a good day surfer53
How do we know that 25 species will go extinct every day regardless of human behaviour, if there is no control experiment? IE a set of conditions in which we don't fish too much, don't pollute at all, don't kill more animals than we need, don't destroy vegetation..
There is no way of knowing that. Because we ARE doing that.
@4squaredby4times4 Sure, but his point is that it will (and is) incurring a response from the planet that will make the plant inhospitable to us humans, we'll be eliminated and then after a few tens of thousand of years the planet will be back to normal. A blink of an eye when compared to 4 billion years. Shaken off like a bad case of the fleas.
I agree, this guy is awesome, but I can't help but feel this is just an excuse for people to litter and pollute (I don't mind that but we gotta keep the planet SOMEWHAT clean right?)
@27kdon That's why I think it's silly when people say, "God must exist, because the living conditions on Earth are just right." I think it's pretty obvious that we came into existence because the world was just right, and it wasn't the world that became "just right" to welcome us.
The planet earth is much more important than the human race. And we prove this time and time again. We need more people like Carlin. Celebrities who use their status to really inform and enlighten the masses. Instead, the two most-followed people on Twitter are Lady Gaga and Bieber. We don't have celebrities worth a damn anymore. Just material people, with material desires, and nothing to give back to the masses who adore them. It's embarassing. Almost seems intentional doesn't it?
A satire on the human and how lazy they are when they come to helping the enviroment. This is why we need to do more. He isn't a scientist, he is a satirical commedian trying to force change. Through his use of exaggeration and parody he is pressing for change, to the ways we treat our enviroment, because we have to deal with it for a long time.
What George realized is that a lot of these movements were about power grabs. He'd been around before these outbreaks of diseases and these so-called "crises." He did a routine about germs. He never got sick because he swam in the Hudson as a kid and it strengthened his immune system. But that sort of solution doesn't make anyone money or get a politician elected. "Here, swim in dirty water." No, instead it's "here, take this pill or elect me and I'll protect you."
yes 90% of the species are gone,it is true but if you want to save yourself our humanity then we should be concern of our ecological niche .
yes true planet is going to be here long long time but thing is our species will not be here due to damage we made to natural ecosystem .Some other species will be here after a long long time
yes 90% of the species are gone,it is true but if you want to save yourself our humanity then we should be concern of our ecological niche .
yes true planet is going to be here long long time but thing is our species will not be here due to damage we made to natural ecosystem .Some other species will be here after a long long time
Like he said, humans have only been industrialized for the past 200 years, and in those 200 years our technology has advanced more than it did in the past 50,000 years. I doubt we'll be gone any time soon, but I do completely agree with him about these environmentalists who think a little plastic or some co2 is going to 'kill the earth' or life anyway as if it hasn't been through anything worse and as if life hasn't survived thus far for billions of years through all kinds of shit.
What is he talking about plastic bags all the time. didn´t he hear of a-bombs, h-bombs, CERN, TNT and the other rehehealllly dangerous stuff. Man is the first species that can kill the earth, if he wants to, in just a sec, nowadays. So its just wrong and therefore not funny. anymore. sorry.
@kodiakub TNT can't do shit to the environment really, A-bombs/h-bombs? You probably know that those radioactive elements have a rate of decay known as the half-life, and eventually even those dangerous elements return to the earth. Carlin is looking at this in a bigger picture way, nukes may wipe us off of the planet, but the planet is billions of years old and has time on its side, the earth can withstand anything. All that has to survive is tiny germs and given time the process will repeat.
@kodiakub Obviously you don't realize exactly how big the planet is, and how deep it is.
Also, gravity. You do realize that planets are just tiny "pieces" of crap(stardust, other materials), The particles in space slowly come back together and form another planet. Since this is still some pretty good real estate as far as location to the sun, I'm sure in a few billion years another planet will sustain life here.
@kodiakub We can't kill the earth even with nukes. There have been massive super volcanic explosions (see yellowstone) in the past, more powerful than our entire nuclear stockpile, the earth is still here.
Part 3 - My personal opinion is that I'm a PART of nature. I'm not above nature. I'm one of nature's children just like the animals. It's not for me to arrogantly assume stewardship of the the environment which spawned me. Of course I try to be considerate and tread lightly, taking only 1 mouthful at a time, I try not to overconsume or be gluttinous. But ultimately I know humans aren't in control of schit. The organism which spawned me has the final say whether I deserve to live,die or reproduce
You want to sit there with your Apple computer, your Volvo, your Greenpeace, your coffee and your weed, in an air conditioned home eating your Tofu, having your 2.5 kids, and you expect "duh guverment" to fix the planet by taxing those evil corporations (which pass those taxes onto us, the consumers.) Nevermind that we need those corporations for jobs and tax revenue.
To people saying : "Let's do something about it" re : the Environment. Instead of pointing fingers and asking for govt interference into everything, why don't you start with yourself. Start by not buying anything plastic or styrofoam. Lose your volvo and bike to work. Live without electricity and gas. Don't reproduce. You don't want to, do you. Well neither do I. At the end of the day, Liberalism is just a polite form of Nazism.
There is a lot of propaganda bullshit, but diversity worship is the worst.
tnekkc 1 day ago
We miss you George. Everyday.
gskaloyan 2 days ago
Pack your shit, folks.
shayboz 1 week ago
NOTE that this is an edition of the original video, and that isn't mentioned in the description.
Check the original video, for example here [youtu.be/1gPgFHMZfGA].
Only small parts were edited (and the edition is well done), but still, if you edit the original work of an artist, the least you can do is to mention that you did so.
Although, it might be that, if it wasn't you who did the edition, you didn't not realised about it yet.
PS: I'm a George Carlin fan.
LaughOutLifeLOL 1 week ago
George is right. Though, theoretically, it is possible for human beings to destroy the planet. That is, to destroy the iron rock that we call Earth. The technology exists for us to literally blow the Earth into an oblivion. That being said, I do believe we should have some level of respect for our habitat. But these environmentalists, who are really just anti-industrialists, really do make me sick.
itcanbecheezcaketime 2 weeks ago
@itcanbecheezcaketime Makes no difference, if we blow earth up it just becomes many little earths. Maybe that is why we are here, to create many earth babies floating through space...and plastic.
LambdaQuarks 2 weeks ago
@LambdaQuarks
lol
itcanbecheezcaketime 2 weeks ago
Humans are accelerating extinction rates. We're trying to stop that because biodiversity is incredibly important. Don't get me wrong Carlin is a comedic genius, but he comes off as rather ignorant here. Yeah yeah yeah, hate me all you want.
MistrEgg 3 weeks ago
@MistrEgg
I agree.
moyga 20 hours ago
Rest in peace, you fucking genius bastard.
George Carlin 1937 - 2008
dramaqueen12397 3 weeks ago 5
-_- cut out the best part, at the end, as everyone is cheering when he says "Take care of yourselves, and take care of somebody else." Fail.
MessyPaint 3 weeks ago 2
Carlin, y u always b tellin da troof? :)
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i think we should get rid of the EPA because it inteferes with nature
DRisLegend200919 2 months ago
@DRisLegend200919 Actually, the EPA interfere's with human nature.
AxekickerDotCom 2 months ago
Al Gore disliked this 41 times.
ThePhantom135 2 months ago
Awesome!
5un5371 2 months ago
needs moar views!!!
NandeKunSumomoChan 3 months ago
I'm watching the original version of this on HBO and it's slightly different... what the fuck? I don't mean editing, I mean he literally says things slightly different. Did they film the same show multiple times or something???
xCrazyxJayx 3 months ago
@xCrazyxJayx Yeah, they probably would. It could be that this is in a different city, so it's a different night. Same show, same points to address, but he's human. It isn't a song to rehearse, he can't go and do a big long show and say it exactly the same, word for word. The spirit is the same each time but the actually logistics is tweaked a little.
ArcVaranus 3 months ago
@ArcVaranus I understand that he doesn't do it exactly the same every time he performs it... but it's the same Special, and the same Set. It's like they released Jammin' In New York twice.
xCrazyxJayx 3 months ago
@xCrazyxJayx It's probably a different night, then.
ArcVaranus 3 months ago
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JolleBaad 4 months ago
plastic bitch!
nick61729 4 months ago
the planet is fine....the people are fucked
pennyf9 4 months ago 31
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ntipouan 4 months ago
Well enviormentalist cause more harm and headaches then anything... I agree with George
MGSPhantom 4 months ago
2:33 - He executed that wink perfectly.
ShootingTheMessenger 4 months ago
Great work! Hey, have you heard of Anti Claus?
theofficialanticlaus 4 months ago
7:15
BroadwayAddams 5 months ago
George was right, stop interfering with nature by loading the atmosphere with greenhouse gases.
8lig 5 months ago
Earth: 4,500,000,000 years
People: 200,000 years
Our current paradigm of "civilization": 10,000 years
We did perfectly fine in the stone age for 190,000 years. We'll be back there sooner than we think.
cammywobs 5 months ago
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LFurfari 5 months ago
@ventures58 earth will still be here and you will be long forgotten is the point he was trying to say i think.
darkloiad 5 months ago
@ventures58 but as he said the earth is fine, the stuff on it like u and me and the pandas everyone is trying to save is fcked
toketdewa 5 months ago
I'd love to know what those people in the audience were yelling... from 2:10-2:50...
Wafaloo 5 months ago
Gorge war right! Just Agree
And leeeet's move on !
mrsephstrife 5 months ago
What ever he says is true... and may happen quick if the whole earth opens up today and every single human and the things he created are burnt by the earth's core. but if it happens naturally then it is a slow slow process that might take 100s, 1000s or may be millions of years.
This means at least for the next 100 generations we have the responsibility to keep the planet clean.
TheRamas4 6 months ago
sometimes he sound like Al Pacino, lol
satandueglemsk 6 months ago
Amen.
demb444 6 months ago
he may be right .... i bet he will change his say if he know what had hapened in 2011
3246shirley 6 months ago
@3246shirley No, he still thought the enviro freaks were freaks up until the day he died a few years ago.
nextdrink45 6 months ago
Long live George Carlin! :)
claudiazcaroc 7 months ago
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George is an idiot. The earth is dying because of stupid people like him.
Kevinisdefgonnadoit 7 months ago
@Kevinisdefgonnadoit He has a really good point here. the earth is dying because of stupid people like you that cannot hear a message when it is spelled out to you.
roderik1990 7 months ago
@roderik1990
"the earth is dying" -- lol.
The earth has been here 5 billion years and will be here 5 billion more no matter what you and I could ever conceive of doing to it.
whitetower67 6 months ago
@whitetower67 Right... different meaning for dying here, think of more in a cultural kind of way.
roderik1990 6 months ago
@whitetower67 The only way we could really hurt the planet is if we did on purpose. ahem, death star...
Fedorasnesguy 5 months ago
@Kevinisdefgonnadoit more importantly though, why are you taking the words of a commedian at face value?
roderik1990 7 months ago
@Kevinisdefgonnadoit The Earth is dying because of people like you!
360Nomad 6 months ago
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whotaughtyou 7 months ago
So true again...sage Carlin says it best...I'm sick and tired of having to give way these environmentalism BS in almost any subject I study in uni. (and No I don't ever vote for Republican).
drixomanbeta 7 months ago
Bingo. Once again, he nails it. This was the huge failure of the green movement. A semantic fuck up. Nobody cares (nor should they) about the planet. It will survive. We, on the other hand, are doomed. If our pollution doesn't kill us, our religion surely will. Pack your bags, folks. We're goin' away.
AxekickerDotCom 8 months ago 53
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DragonsREpic 3 months ago
@AxekickerDotCom true but i think we should get rid of the EPA because it inteferes with nature
DRisLegend200919 2 months ago
@DRisLegend200919 DId you not get the whole fucking point of this video. Everything we do is nature. We consider ourselves to be above it but we are not. For fuck sake are you exactly the type of idiot he is describing.
Nemsault 2 months ago
@AxekickerDotCom or nationalism.
madreus 2 days ago
this says is from april 24th... is there a rec of the special of april 25th?
lggonzaleza 8 months ago
So true. The environment is fine, the people are screwed!
darkknight9761 8 months ago
Everyday I thank the Big Electron that we had George Carlin enlighten us on this planet.
enaksound 8 months ago
Not one of George's most intelligent bits, to say the least. The bit about endangered species was especially dumb. As someone commented, is he going to say something funny at some point? It's just a rant. And one that contradicts itself in bizarre ways. Oh well, maybe some kind of pharmaceutical effect.
I'm a huge Carlin fan, by the way.
groghound 8 months ago
@Nocommentsplease1 I think that was the point of his comment, that he tells the truth, not jokes.
zalmanusa 8 months ago
Wasn't it our interference with nature that endangered a lot of them in the first place?
GiantSandles 8 months ago
@GiantSandles Since we are a product of nature, how the heck are we interfering with it??
sooperknob 8 months ago
@sooperknob I'm no expert on the subject, but our driving animals out of their natural habitat probably has something to do with it.
GiantSandles 8 months ago
@GiantSandles So when earthquakes and volcanoes destroy "natural" habitats... that's just :natural." But when humans do it - it's non-natural? Interesting. Please expand on your hypothesis as to how humans are not a part of nature.
sooperknob 8 months ago
@sooperknob Well, I don't believe in God, so I don't think there was any conscious choice behind earthquakes or volcanoes. As for the rest of your comment, I addressed that in my other comment - which you probably didn't see before you responded, and if so, fair enough.
GiantSandles 8 months ago
@GiantSandles I don't believe in God either - I'm just trying to make this a logic debate, and not an emotional one. We can all feel for the death of a living creature - but how human action may or may not effect the planet or other species is the ultimate question. Species come and go - humans will eventually go - as will most other living creatures that surround us... so why try to prolong one specific planetary state? Isn't that concept in and of itself, unnatural?
sooperknob 8 months ago
@sooperknob If you're asking 'why is it different when we do it', we are clearly capable of reflecting upon our actions - and appreciating reasons for NOT fucking with everything else - in a way that other animals simply aren't.
GiantSandles 8 months ago
@GiantSandles What if the sun exploded tomorrow and destroyed the entire planet? What would be the point of your appreciation then? What would your attempts to have controlled nature and saved animals have accomplished? The simple fact is, we will eventually be gone - and any traces of our existence will ultimately be obliterated... regardless of anyone's "saving" ways.
sooperknob 8 months ago
@sooperknob You misunderstand me, when we drive out animals from their habitat, it's OUR fault that if they die early. Taking that into consideration, your argument of "We'll all die some day" could easily be applied to the following scenario; Mr Jones beats Mr Smith half to death because Mr Smith has something that Mr Jones wants. Mr Jones can justify - with your logic - not taking Mr Smith to a hospital by saying "He'd have died some day anyway, so it doesn't matter."
GiantSandles 8 months ago
@GiantSandles Sorry for the grammatical error there.
GiantSandles 8 months ago
@GiantSandles But you theory fails logic and human evolution by jumping to the "hospital" argument. Prior to going to the hospital you assume that all humans, in their nature, want to beat and or kill other humans for the sake of material gain. However, that is not in our nature; for if every human beat or killed ever other human they encountered, we'd never have evolved to the most dominant life form on the planet. It simply isn't our nature to destroy each other, although many believe it is.
sooperknob 8 months ago
>Prior to going to the hospital you assume that all humans, in their nature, want to beat and or kill other humans for the sake of material gain.
I said no such thing, I'm saying that the situation I described is analogous to the situation of consciously driving other species to the brink of destruction.
GiantSandles 8 months ago
@GiantSandles You didn't say it, but it's the basis of your argument. For, your primary reasoning for humans driving other species to extinction is based on the assumption that we'd drive ourselves to extinction by not providing care for our others. The simple fact is - we do.
Furthermore, why should a conscious dominant species feel "sorry" for said dominance? As meddling mice left hiding in the bush, should we have asked the dinosaurs to step aside so we could have evolved earlier?
sooperknob 8 months ago
1) It was all hypothetical, I made no such presuppositions about the human race in general. You're either misreading or deliberately misrepresenting my position.
2) I've addressed the 'why is it different for us?' question before. Basically, we are equipped with a level of rationality that allows us to think and reflect upon our behaviour and it's consequences in a way that - to my knowledge - no other species can or has been able to. It's a notable distinction.
GiantSandles 8 months ago
@GiantSandles Sure thing! But species have been endangered before we even existed, and species will continue to be endangered long after we're gone. That's not to say that we shouldn't feel guilty for the species that we DID endanger ourselves, but perhaps that was nature's plan all along. After all, everything else on this planet seems to have a purpose, why would we be special? Earth has had a purpose for us, all along.
remenic 1 month ago
@remenic >But species have been endangered before we even existed
Yeah, the difference is humans didn't put those species in that position. So your argument is completely fucking bunk.
And you're just asserting that everything on the planet has a purpose, which is dumb because you couldn't possibly substantiate that.
GiantSandles 1 month ago
@GiantSandles Whoa dude, easy with the swearing! I believe that nature is capable of balancing itself, so in that sense, everything is here for that purpose. That's my belief, and you might call that 'dumb', but I couldn't care less :D
But there's no denying that us humans are quite destructive. Nature will take care of that too, eventually.
remenic 1 month ago
@remenic Easy with the swearing? You're on a George Carlin video.
And you can't get out of substantiating the "this planet has a purpose" shit by saying "that's my belief", sorry.
GiantSandles 1 month ago
@GiantSandles Aw damn, I better go kill myself then.
remenic 1 month ago
I agree that there is a lot of sensationalist propaganda floating around but in my humble opinion you can never be too worried about the enviornment, you can be too ignorant of the threats we are facing though.
MrAudiovideodisco 8 months ago
Carlin was peddling disinformation here: 0:58
Humans are actually forcing the extinction rate to be far higher than he implied.
tiny .cc/abxu3
"The IUCN ... calculated that the rate of extinction had reached 100-1,000 times that suggested by the fossil records before humans."
The renowned biologist E. O. Wilson, predicted that the rate of loss would reach 10,000 times the background rate.
Sorry George. You were a funny guy, but sometimes you were just a right-wing crank.
substanti8 9 months ago
@substanti8 Actually, he's spot on. You just happen to resent the fact he's talking about you. The planet has been here for a long time creating and knocking out species. You miss his point completely. That you call him a right wring crank is arrogent of you. That statement makes you a left wing dumbass. He, like all others are free to see a thing that does not incorporate a "side".
BeerBellyBingo 9 months ago
@substanti8 I'll go a step futher on that, because I think I can see what your response will be. The rate of extinction is irrelevent. All will be extinct by the end. The use of numbers to create fear amongst those who simply want to live there life is your problem and one you will take to us. He called you out, plain and simple. And you you picked a specific of what he said in an attempt to discredit what he said. Humans increase the extinxtion rate? Fine. What allows for humans to be?
BeerBellyBingo 9 months ago
@BeerBellyBingo
"The use of numbers ..."
LOL ... Yeah, I'm really impressed by your intellect (and spelling, even with a spell-checker staring you in the face).
The point that YOU miss is that Carlin was WRONG on the FACTS of the matter. It's called SCIENCE.
Your "argument" is sophistry.
Now go ahead and call me more names, if that's what sparks your limbic system.
substanti8 9 months ago
@substanti8 You weren't listening, YOU are the one he was talking about.
Indogyearsimdead 9 months ago
@Indogyearsimdead
You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
What part of "WRONG on the FACTS" do you not understand?
Do you read English much? Try this:
tiny .cc/abxu3
substanti8 9 months ago
@substanti8 My bad I forgot you limousine liberals know all about concepts we mere mortal cannot grasp.
And you got your Doctoral Degree in Zoology where?
Indogyearsimdead 9 months ago
We can do nothing to destroy the planet. How about 10,000 nukes. No problem.
duf101101 9 months ago
George Carlin is the man.
C172Pilotdude 9 months ago
So...is he going to tell any jokes?
Wintermute01001 10 months ago
@Wintermute01001 You're a simple-minded fool aren't you?
RoberMatts 8 months ago
@Wintermute01001 George made lots of jokes in this video. If what he said doesn't seem funny to you, you sense of humor may be underdeveloped, or possibly you just don't agree with the views he expressed. If you are a greenie or a hippy or so-called "environmentalist" your views on nature and the state of the planet are likely to be opposed to George's, in which case ths performance here would be unfunny---for you.
JEEMIJAMES 8 months ago
@Wintermute01001
Satire.
Bobbylongmusic 8 months ago
@Wintermute01001 are you kidding? This guy is funny and truthful at the same time. He is not your typical comedian. He was doing comedy for 48 years and people loved it. Who else can you name that has done the same? This man was awesome, I was actually pretty upset when he passed.
Sp33dstix 8 months ago
@Sp33dstix The man was first a thinker and a moder philosopher and then a comedian. George studied people and our behaviour and went from there.
We as a kind are pretty dumb, and he was trying to say that all these years.
Thejazzhimself 7 months ago
Melodysheep has done an awesome remix of this stand up act. Check it out.
watch?v=3FFgVayrWjs
zrhealey 10 months ago
the earth wanted plastic and we delivered ;)
LiteScar 10 months ago
Georges description of The Big Electron, sounds like the closest thing to what I believe God to be
bushbasher85 10 months ago
@bushbasher85 Wow. You must be really special.
whitebeam 10 months ago
I wish more people had his mindset. Such a clear-headed approach to everything. No Bullshit. This guy was so much more than a comedian.
mattisprettycool 10 months ago
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pennyf9 11 months ago
We're bacteria
joe6panther6 11 months ago 2
Al Gore and others have huge investments in "green" ventures. That's what this is about. Companies are buying up carbon credits. It's all about money, not saving the planet. After all the things we do to each other as human beings, suddenly we want to save the planet? It's total hypocrisy and fear mongering designed to take money from the poor and middle class and give it to the rich. More redistribution of wealth.
surfer53 11 months ago
@surfer53 strange how so many of the 'Gore worshipers' have forgotten what Al's best buddy in the 90's, "Mr Enron" Kenneth Lay tried to foist on us through Enron. Gore's association with with Lay alone is enough to tell you who's side he is really on... and it ain't us and it ain't the environment either. Okay, there's my rant, hope you have a good day surfer53
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pennyf9 11 months ago
it doesn't punish , it doesn't reward... it just is........... for a little while
jamespage1680 11 months ago
Heard about the tsunami/earthquake in Japan, so I came here. George is so right :)
GilucZ 11 months ago 20
Pack your shit folks!
FunkyWhitePimp 11 months ago 3
brilliant man . i dont know how anybody can call him a comic . he is a science translator
MrTarantulalover 11 months ago
At the end of this I realized, George Carlin isn't an atheist, he's nihilist.
IpodAndrewts 11 months ago
@IpodAndrewts those two are in different categories and thereby not mutually exclusive
DeHerg 11 months ago
@IpodAndrewts Actually, he's neither, he's dead.
TDrudley 11 months ago
How do we know that 25 species will go extinct every day regardless of human behaviour, if there is no control experiment? IE a set of conditions in which we don't fish too much, don't pollute at all, don't kill more animals than we need, don't destroy vegetation..
There is no way of knowing that. Because we ARE doing that.
Nannirk 11 months ago
In addition to his satirical, realistic outlook on life, his delivery, and timing is fucking phenomenal. Perfection.
starchmonkey 1 year ago
Well he has a very VALID point we be dead someday soon anyways.
i doubt a virus thou but a mycelium would be the perfect killer
thejlx 1 year ago
i swear, George Carlin inspired the character of the joker
RockstarTyler13 1 year ago 28
@RockstarTyler13 i dont like ur comment...or maybe i just dont like why other idiots liked this comment...
bukk3t 5 months ago
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Cruciferian 5 months ago
Isn't cutting down the rainforest for farmland interfering with nature? Just saying.
4squaredby4times4 1 year ago
@4squaredby4times4 Sure, but his point is that it will (and is) incurring a response from the planet that will make the plant inhospitable to us humans, we'll be eliminated and then after a few tens of thousand of years the planet will be back to normal. A blink of an eye when compared to 4 billion years. Shaken off like a bad case of the fleas.
awgn70 1 year ago
@4squaredby4times4 Yes and no. Because we are nature. Like Carlin said 'the earth isn't f*cked, the people are f*cked.
We're not harming the earth, it heals itself.
FunkyWhitePimp 11 months ago
hahaha
cisco2992 1 year ago
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LOL, man, my buddy found this hillarious like redneck blog on line that just rips into environmentalism its pretty funny
Fuck the environment
bullshitonlife(DOT)blogspot(DOT)com/2011/02/environment-can-suck-big-hairy-asshole(DOT)html
MrMegaWolfeman 1 year ago
i will kill him
BFRX 1 year ago
im an enviromentalist and this is fucking hilarious
AxeloneX 1 year ago
sure it sucks worrying all the time, but that doesn't mean that you can't be collectively aware of the important problems and together solve them
Aleque 1 year ago
@Aleque You'll never "solve" the world's problems.
bonchbonch 1 year ago
I agree, this guy is awesome, but I can't help but feel this is just an excuse for people to litter and pollute (I don't mind that but we gotta keep the planet SOMEWHAT clean right?)
1337Tazer 1 year ago 2
@1337Tazer no.... that is his while argument, that it doesn't matter.
dumke00 1 year ago
Great stuff from one of the best comedians, ever!
steadywaters1 1 year ago
we need nature, nature doesnt need us. i need my teddy...
27kdon 1 year ago
@27kdon That's why I think it's silly when people say, "God must exist, because the living conditions on Earth are just right." I think it's pretty obvious that we came into existence because the world was just right, and it wasn't the world that became "just right" to welcome us.
Tesla713 1 year ago
Save George Carlin!
NosotrosLosOrtiz 1 year ago
@NosotrosLosOrtiz One YouTube video at a time. :)
Tesla713 1 year ago
Human Hubris
mattaztec 1 year ago
The planet earth is much more important than the human race. And we prove this time and time again. We need more people like Carlin. Celebrities who use their status to really inform and enlighten the masses. Instead, the two most-followed people on Twitter are Lady Gaga and Bieber. We don't have celebrities worth a damn anymore. Just material people, with material desires, and nothing to give back to the masses who adore them. It's embarassing. Almost seems intentional doesn't it?
tisdue 1 year ago
That was great!
A satire on the human and how lazy they are when they come to helping the enviroment. This is why we need to do more. He isn't a scientist, he is a satirical commedian trying to force change. Through his use of exaggeration and parody he is pressing for change, to the ways we treat our enviroment, because we have to deal with it for a long time.
rockyoursocks343 1 year ago
The world lost a genius the day George Carlin died.
Goldygirl16 1 year ago 4
@Goldygirl16 he should also have had a tv show, George Carlin, the truth!
pennyf9 11 months ago
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Save the trees, save the bees, save the wales save those snails
damiyanvx 1 year ago
I think some people are missing that george is playing the devils advocate.
illustr8dman 1 year ago
volvo is the shit
theskateboard98 1 year ago
This guy is right! I like him because he hates enviromentalists and narrated thomas the tank engine!
pennyf9 1 year ago 2
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What George realized is that a lot of these movements were about power grabs. He'd been around before these outbreaks of diseases and these so-called "crises." He did a routine about germs. He never got sick because he swam in the Hudson as a kid and it strengthened his immune system. But that sort of solution doesn't make anyone money or get a politician elected. "Here, swim in dirty water." No, instead it's "here, take this pill or elect me and I'll protect you."
surfer53 1 year ago
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yes 90% of the species are gone,it is true but if you want to save yourself our humanity then we should be concern of our ecological niche .
yes true planet is going to be here long long time but thing is our species will not be here due to damage we made to natural ecosystem .Some other species will be here after a long long time
ashwin297 1 year ago
yes 90% of the species are gone,it is true but if you want to save yourself our humanity then we should be concern of our ecological niche .
yes true planet is going to be here long long time but thing is our species will not be here due to damage we made to natural ecosystem .Some other species will be here after a long long time
ashwin297 1 year ago
Don't always agree with him but this is EPIC.
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darkANGEL8126 1 year ago
Like he said, humans have only been industrialized for the past 200 years, and in those 200 years our technology has advanced more than it did in the past 50,000 years. I doubt we'll be gone any time soon, but I do completely agree with him about these environmentalists who think a little plastic or some co2 is going to 'kill the earth' or life anyway as if it hasn't been through anything worse and as if life hasn't survived thus far for billions of years through all kinds of shit.
eragon2121 1 year ago
Beautiful.
jetv42 1 year ago
George Carlin was the most intelligent man that ever lived. RIP Georgie. We're missin' ya down here.
MrSatanMan616 1 year ago
What is he talking about plastic bags all the time. didn´t he hear of a-bombs, h-bombs, CERN, TNT and the other rehehealllly dangerous stuff. Man is the first species that can kill the earth, if he wants to, in just a sec, nowadays. So its just wrong and therefore not funny. anymore. sorry.
kodiakub 1 year ago
@kodiakub TNT can't do shit to the environment really, A-bombs/h-bombs? You probably know that those radioactive elements have a rate of decay known as the half-life, and eventually even those dangerous elements return to the earth. Carlin is looking at this in a bigger picture way, nukes may wipe us off of the planet, but the planet is billions of years old and has time on its side, the earth can withstand anything. All that has to survive is tiny germs and given time the process will repeat.
michaelh6 1 year ago
@michaelh6 i wasn´t talking about wiping us off the planet. talking about bursting the whole fucking planet into tiny pieces.
kodiakub 1 year ago
@kodiakub Obviously you don't realize exactly how big the planet is, and how deep it is.
Also, gravity. You do realize that planets are just tiny "pieces" of crap(stardust, other materials), The particles in space slowly come back together and form another planet. Since this is still some pretty good real estate as far as location to the sun, I'm sure in a few billion years another planet will sustain life here.
michaelh6 1 year ago
man is the first species on this planet arrogant enough to think he can make a difference
Dreamerx47 1 year ago 4
@kodiakub We can't kill the earth even with nukes. There have been massive super volcanic explosions (see yellowstone) in the past, more powerful than our entire nuclear stockpile, the earth is still here.
eragon2121 1 year ago
truer words were never spoken
XxPRboixX 1 year ago
Carlinism: Belief in The Big Electron.
Wom...
Wom.
Count me in.
maxcantor 1 year ago
George is wonderfully exposing our collective environmental hypocrisy in this
piece. His words, "arrogant meddling" are well chosen.
7jtrunks 1 year ago
Way to misunderstand the science and the point of conservation, George. Anything to get a laugh, I guess.
ginckgo 1 year ago
Part 3 - My personal opinion is that I'm a PART of nature. I'm not above nature. I'm one of nature's children just like the animals. It's not for me to arrogantly assume stewardship of the the environment which spawned me. Of course I try to be considerate and tread lightly, taking only 1 mouthful at a time, I try not to overconsume or be gluttinous. But ultimately I know humans aren't in control of schit. The organism which spawned me has the final say whether I deserve to live,die or reproduce
fizzle32 1 year ago
You want to sit there with your Apple computer, your Volvo, your Greenpeace, your coffee and your weed, in an air conditioned home eating your Tofu, having your 2.5 kids, and you expect "duh guverment" to fix the planet by taxing those evil corporations (which pass those taxes onto us, the consumers.) Nevermind that we need those corporations for jobs and tax revenue.
fizzle32 1 year ago 2
To people saying : "Let's do something about it" re : the Environment. Instead of pointing fingers and asking for govt interference into everything, why don't you start with yourself. Start by not buying anything plastic or styrofoam. Lose your volvo and bike to work. Live without electricity and gas. Don't reproduce. You don't want to, do you. Well neither do I. At the end of the day, Liberalism is just a polite form of Nazism.
fizzle32 1 year ago
Every year 2,500,000 people die of car exhaust. And car exhaust is destroying the nature! We know how to stop it!
youtube.com/watch?v=sHw7XSz2OGI
MediaCryptix 1 year ago
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@MediaCryptix
Get a hair cut hippie.
TaqiyyaExposer 1 year ago
THESE NEEDS TO BE IN EVERY PHILOSOPHY COURSE EVER TAUGHT!
hatonbackward 1 year ago
Thanks for being here with us for a little while, George
ZachValkyrie 1 year ago 3