Can man physically destroy the Earth?

Question

With nuclear weapons, man can surely leave the Earth void of life.

However, can man actually totally destroy the planet?

Could the nuclear blasts take the planet off course, leaving it a barren rock?

A lot of answers mention destruction of life on the planet, my question mentioned this!
I am interested to know if Earth can be 'totally' destroyed by man, either physically, via nuclear weapons or the Earth been taken off course, by the effects of the nuclear blasts.
Therefore leaving Earth totally without any way of repair!

Hello?
I know we are slowly destroying life on this planet, that was 'not' the question!!

Answer 1

We live within a very thin skin of gas that envelopes the Earth, called the atmosphere.

the atmosphere weighs an astonishing 5000 trillion tonnes, but is less than a millionth the weight of the solid Earth (which is 6 billion trillion tonnes).

It is this thin skin of existence that is vulnerable - not the mass of the Earth itself.

People need to get a sense of scale into their heads: The energy output of a large Earthquake is many times greater than a nuclear blast. Same with volcanic eruption, and same with a large hurricane. And none of these come close to effecting the Earth as a whole.

The impact of the Chixculub asteroid (that may have wiped the dinosaurs 65 m years ago) had the energy of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs. Even that did not budge the Earth, although it poisoned the atmosphere for years.

The Earth itself is safe from human activity. If we ruin the environment and become extinct as a result, the environment will regenerate and life will go on happily without us.

It has done that kind of thing many times before.

Answer 2

No, the energy contained in all the nuclear weapons that we have is not enough to destroy the earth, or to even come close. If you add up the entire nuclear stockpile and look at the energy equivalent, you would only come up with something like one-thousandth the energy of the meteorite that cause the K-T extinctions, which also didn't come close to destroying the Earth. Honestly I think it would be very very difficult for destroy all life on earth with nuclear weapons. We'd have more chance of doing that if we created a runaway greenhouse effect, and turned the Earth into another Venus.

Answer 3

The Earth is a mightier force than man could ever overcome. Man can, however, degrade his own environment and make life difficult and even impossible after time. We may wipe ourselves out but the Earth, the planet, this spinning rock, will always bounce back until the Sun destroys the solar system.

Answer 4

Taking the planet off course would be very difficult, if not impossible.

However, we could certainly cause significant seismic damage with well-placed nuclear weapons. It wouldn't destroy the earth, I'm sure, but we could do some major terraforming that would leave large sections of the planet uninhabitable.

Answer 5

Man could NOT physically destroy planet earth. Even if the earth was a barren lump of rock without water or an atmosphere, it would still be the planet earth.

But let's not try...

Answer 6

sure. Revelation properly-knownshows that when the perfect judgment, the heavens and earth are destroyed and a sparkling heaven and a sparkling earth are created for us to savor in perfection. that may no longer international warming or 2012 or the rest, which little doubt could have some effects on the planet, yet complete destruction of the heavens and earth are accomplished on an analogous hand of the writer following the final day and intensely final judgment. it rather is likewise modern-day in Matthew 24:35 "Heaven and earth will pass away, yet My be conscious will by no capacity pass away." And, we study in Revelation 20:11-15 that in the time of actuality the Bible ("My be conscious") is opened alongside with the e book of existence for the perfect judgment and the two are used alongside with one yet another for judgment.

Answer 7

As Einstein said, after the third world war, people will be fighting with stones and rocks in the 4th world war. So the earth will have all the technology wiped out after war involving nuclear weapons, and we'll be back to the stone age.

Answer 8

We are actually doing it right now. By putting to much carbon dioxide in the air you contribute to global warming which will eventually destroy the planet.

Answer 9

No they could destroy it to a point like wipe out man kind but as for turn into a piece of rubble not possible

Answer 10

No need to fear nuclear blasts;
politicians' hot air will do far more damage
(it is also believed that something called
"voter apathy" may have a similar effect,
but nobody seems to care about that). ;)