Has Rush Limbaugh ever heard of nuclear war? His website states?

Question

"Nature Finds a Way to Survive
Human beings cannot destroy the planet. Period."

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html

Amazing how conservatives can suddenly draw such fine distinctions. "Nature will survive"? Yeah, maybe by producing and abundance of radiation-resistant life forms such as cockroaches... The issue of what mankind can do to the earth is not "simple"

Answer 1

Hehe - it seems he's changed his "undeniable truths" yet again. This apparently was the older version;

6. The Earth's eco-system is not fragile.

What a screwball.

Answer 2

1) it is physically impossible to destroy a planet by any human means. The planet is too large and the weapons are not powerful enough so that is true. You can burn off the surface of a planet but Humans can not physically disassemble a planet with it's current weapons.

2) Radiation has a very hard time penetrating water, it gets dissipated relatively quickly in moving water, so there is a chance that creatures in the deepest depths of the ocean would not be affected.

3) There has already been at least 1 previous occasion of nearly a global level extermination and a number of smaller near catastrophic events and life managed to find a way.

So Rush may be over simplifying but he is not entirely incorrect even though he is not exactly right either.

Answer 3

Nature can very well survive a nuclear war. If you knew anything about nuclear war you would know that. Even in the worst case scenarios of the cold war, even if every nuclear weapon in every country was used, not only would nature recover but even human beings (although in greatly reduced numbers) would recover.

Remember the Mount St. Helens eruption? Thousands of years of natural growth absolutely erased in seconds. The devastation was worse than any ever unleashed by man. Look at those areas today.

You obviously do not understand how nature works. If a total nuclear war were unleashed and the skys were dark most of the year and the global temperature was much cooler and radiation levels high, there are species that would not only survive but would flourish.

The world would be different but life would still exist. That is the point. Even in that scenario nature would adapt. But the point he is making is that nothing we are currently doing nor are likely to ever do even approaches that level of destruction. So to think that by driving to work, exhaling or cattle flatulence will destroy the planet is just stupid.

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Answer 4

Nukes will not destroy the planet. If we nuke the surface of the planet, almost all life (save microscopic and some insect life, and a few oceanic plants) will survive. The body of the planet will survive, the atmosphere will survive (albeit a little bit altered).

You should do some research on nuks before you run yourself off at the mouth. But, since you will only give "best" answer to someone who agrees with you, alas I doubt you are capable of changing yor mind.

Answer 5

Taking Limbaugh out of context? Who'd a thunk it?!

This particular statement is in regards to global warming, and how it's impossible for humans, who are a relative to a speck of dust on this planet, can not do enough harm environmentally to destroy this entrie planet. Now, surely, you will take that out of context as well as me saying, "well then, we should keep polluting away!!!"

The point is that this planet has been here for BILLIONS of years, and has withstood everything from ice ages to periods of extreme heat and turbulence via volcanic eruptions, the volatile gasses that were here before humanity, and all of these massive comet/meteor strikes that--while making severe impacts on the planet's ecology--could never, and HAVE NEVER destroyed it.

Even with nuclear weapons and the sheer numbers of them that we have, it's naive, and even ignorant (in a cocky way) to believe that we, as one of the most immature species on this planet, have the capability of destroying an object so large that it's mass creates enough gravity to maintain a stationary orbit for itself, and a satellite rock. We're smart, we're capable and in many instance, we're straight dangerous. But there is no way that we will ever become more powerful then the planet as it's own being.

Grow up.

Answer 6

sure, I even have heard many racist comments from Rush formerly i finished listening to him in 2003. And having certainly listened to President Obama's remark I right this moment found out that he did not call the police officer stupid, he talked approximately as the arrest stupid which all of us who has been in regulation or regulation enforcement knew replaced into the main suitable option. Rush is purposely divisive with the aid of fact it particularly is extremely worthwhile to continuously be frightening human beings.

Answer 7

Sorry there bud but all of the nukes on the planet could not destroy it and radiation dissipates. Life goes on. Did not the destruction of the dinosaurs prove that? We may not survive but the planet will as long as the core is molten.

Answer 8

Rush Limbaugh is only a talker. He is the mouth piece for others. His talk go to the highest bidder to support his drug habits. No on should take any thing Rush say or writes as truth unless the research it in a serious manner. People that are driven by the drug habits usually bend the truth to make things appear a certain way. People can definitely make this planet unfit for HUMAN life. Yes, the cockroaches will find a way to survive. Rush does play to a certain group of people that don't want to understand basic science or how ecosystems work. All life on this planet is related and dependent on the other life in some way. People like Rush don't believe it.

Answer 9

Even after a nuclear war, the radiation will subside over time (yes, I know, many years) and life will start coming back again. It is a fact of nature. It is resillient. That is what he means. There is no way we will ever blow the planet into pieces, thus destroying it.

Answer 10

He is correct. Nature will survive. People may not and nature in the way we see it now may not but it will in some way. In every area where there has been a nuclear accident life is there. Sometimes it takes it awhile to show up

Answer 11

I would agree. We have the ability to destroy ourselves, but not the planet. We certainly can change the dynamic of the environment, but not totally destroy it.