Can the Earth recover from environmental pollution?

With the right mindset and actions it could theoretically recover, if things do not go too far out of hand . The difficult thing is to recover from is environmentalists, single side information, demonizations, political correctness and a few more practical consepts like programmed obsolence and other sacred cows of our coulture, that produce only plentifull man*re. Too political again? I'll eat some super hot chilli and promice not to drink any water with it. (LOL) S.M.

If our species goes extinct, in a short amount of geological time, there will be little evidence we were even here.

Why don't you clean it up and see...? It was done here in the US...

After the nuclear holocaust, the world will have time to recover.

Sit back, enjoy the continental drift, see new shore and meet new people.

I agree that "what matters most right now is how we can help one another on a day to day basis." The problem with that is there are multiple answers to how we can "help one another" as to the environment. I am sure there are some who would disagree with my vision as how best to 'help people' just as I might disagree with others.

Going back to the dark ages by depending on the sun and wind to power our very highly industrialized world seems folly.

We may be able to ween ourselves away from fossil fuels sometime in the future but we will still need to drill for the crude oil due to our dependencies on the other byproducts from that same resource .

It seems a waste of a resource to then just dispose of the fuel aspects of the distillation process, and how do we dispose of the fuels without increasing pollution?

This link (6000 products) is just a partial list of what we humans depend on crude oil to supply.

I think we will eventually go back to the dark ages,kicking and screaming the whole way.

It will only take a few solar mass ejections aimed our way to kick us back a few hundred years,or more.

Think about all of our power grids going down,world wide.

Communication satellites not functioning.

All solid state devices inoperable due to the magnetic storm pulse.

Only the very old vehicles would be functional,and then only till they run out of gas.

The gas pumps would not work,fuel would have to be pumped with a manual pump.

The Earth is billions of years old,mankind only a few hundred thousand,at most.

Plenty of time for previous civilizations to evolve,rise and fall and disappear without a trace.

Modern man may be just another experiment in process.

Gold fish are limited in size by their own bio-feedback;ie, the waste products in their water.It may be the same with mankind.Our pollution will limit our size and progress.

Every 8 minutes,a magnetic portal opens from the Earth to the sun.

Not only Earth,but other planets also.

Is this a form of unknown communication between the sun and planets?

Ridiculous,you say?Perhaps,but stranger things have happened.

Dare I ask what could possibly be stranger things that have happened than what you described?????

Now I will agree that modern infrastructure is absolutely vulnerable as has been shown in some small scale attacks on oil pipelines and power grids.

The EMP would be a very effective weapon even at the level of a local battle considering military reliance on technology today.....makes one wonder how easily it could be for the lone hostile country (at least to the west) making microchips to bring down an entire military alliance.......

Stranger?Well how about finding relics and technology of a previous ancient,prehistoric human presence on the far side of the moon,in caves,etc,with well preserved DNA.

That would qualify!

I think it is true. The green terrorists are yelling "Forbid the fossil fuels, forbid the nuclear facilities, lets go only to solar and wind energy sources etc...", and what happened - Russian military operation in Ukraine, oil and gas prices go way high, Arabs can`t count the money they collect by selling at that high prices, they live in the desert and don`t care about "green" Europe, USA, Asia, or Australia!!!

Also, i am agree that we have to stop doing/produce a lot of useless things to help the planet to clean itself, but it isn`t the way that green terrorists want and chant.

Well there is your problem. All these idiots are in western countries, these countries who just happen to produce all that crap for the lazy folks who don't know how to make a simple fire or walk to work or ride a bicycle or. They need to maintain the image.

Are they now going to pile into Ukraine and clean it all up? I don't think so!

That was my point at the end - to stop make people lazier by producing useless things. And my problem is with artificially high prices of oil - when people get poorer, some get richer - same as in comment #7.

<...the Earth...> does <...recover from environmental pollution...>. It always has done. It is only a matter of timescale.

If one defines <...pollution...> as a substance or an effect that is in the wrong place, the question of what is right and what is wrong is where determination must reside.

Whether mankind will recover from the revelation and shock that it is the pollutant is the question that needs deeper thought.