Putting Human Arrogance in Perspective 8/3/2017

Something just doesn’t seem right to me when I hear people carry on about how we humans are going to destroy the earth.  Sure, we can definitely mess up our environment with various forms of pollution but these are essentially local or regional issues.  Anyone who thinks the human species could destroy the earth, even with all of the powerful weapons we possess or may eventually possess, must be unaware of the monumental task that would be.  I doubt that even with a total human commitment to do this that we would be capable of making noticeable progress.  We may be able to kill off all human life with something like radioactive fallout and maybe even most all life on earth.  Although, I have a sneaking suspicion that cockroaches would survive.  But destroy the earth, no way.  That is the height of human arrogance.
Just consider perspective.  The weight of the earth is something like 6 X 10^24 KG while the total weight of all of humanity is only about 1 billionth of 1 percent of that.  That proportion is roughly like comparing a good sized ant colony to Mt. Everest.  Ants are hard workers but I suspect that an ant colony could work at top speed for centuries and not make a visible dent in Mt. Everest, even if we supplied them with mini bulldozers.