oh we have screwed the pooch already, the planet will not recover in our life time that is for sure...
Kona, do you know what the Atlantic and Pacific Conveyors are? What they are and how they function, what they do to the weather patterns, control the seasonal changes, exactly how cold it is or hot?
Exactly what it would take to destroy one or both of them and what it would in fact do to the planet if such happens?
Or the history of the reversal of the electromagnetic fields of the planet and how when ( not if but when) it shifts again it will in fact tip the axis of the planet by at least 6 degrees of not. Consider this one fact, the human body and all living things are basically batteries with their own magnetic fields...

who knows, primordial soup, back to the beginning?
Or the fact that the oceans were not salt water at the beginning, they became so because of the mineral run off from land, and everyone who figured it is ok to bury trash, toxic and all, is really doing more damage than they ever seemed to think they have, either that or they are so self centered they do not care..
anyway...
my wife gets upset with me when she happens to wash my pants and such because I refuse to throw my cig butts on the ground, I knock the cherry off and then put the butt in my pocket to throw out later in the trash...