the planet is going to kill us.

According to Phelan, the planet is self-extincting. He mentions that human beings used to be nomadic coastal dwellers and now we have become these stationary beings, who have sped up the process of evolution. How through our advances in technology we have become an overpopulated, disease spreading society...and did I mention we are terrified of any type of climate change?

Now Carlin, in contrast to Phelan believed that the things we experience today are just inevitable. That planet earth is self cleansing and no matter what we do "a few plastic bags and aluminum cans" aren't going to be a fatal catalyst. I believe that Carlin makes a valid point..when we think about it logically the planet has been through so many things for a little bit of garbage to cause it to self-combust. We need to just calm down and let nature take its course.