Speaking of Israel...

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Destroyed our planet?

Just a bit hyperbolic there yes?

Climate change may screw over Micronesia quite thoroughly and create a host of other problems, but perspective please. Even if we manage to trigger wars, mass killings, and plagues it just means that we will have destroyed ourselves.

Even if we were to somehow convert this globe into some form of Arrakis, we would still not have destroyed the planet.

We will curtail things well enough to not follow Venus -- Sol is far enough off.

[Husar]

Just a bit hyperbolic there yes?

Yes, I wanted to say that industrialism just turned everyone into servants of the rich, but then I had this crazy idea and couldn't resist saying it out loud.

And Pannonian, that people hear so many bad things about Britain and the US might also be because every topic gets redirected to these countries, often by people who come from there. If you toot your own horn all the time, at some point I might feel like knocking you down a notch. I know that I'm not allowed to have a sense of humor just because I'm German, but not everything I say about Britain is entirely serious. I thought I already said that:

That's inconsequential, I was already not entirely serious with my original statement blaming Britain and yet we're debating it now anyway.

So if my original (much "smaller") statement wasn't serious, it absolutely has to be serious when I say Britain destroyed the planet, makes sense...