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Ok, I’ll concede my comment needs a bit of clarification. In the long run, we cannot do long term damage to our planet. We can cause CHANGES to the biosphere (however, I won’t say “damage”, because that’s such a subjective term, and life can and WILL evolve to suit the new environment, if the biosphere changes)

The simple fact is that in the long run, as your comment states, all we can realistically do is NOT protect the planet, but try to protect ourselves. THAT’s what it comes down to, because even if we blasted the earth down to the bedrock, we could not remove life entirely.

To quote the great Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park, “Life will find a way.” So, just to keep a rational and calm head, we won’t “kill the planet”. We may reduce the biosphere’s capacity to support life AS WE CURRENTLY KNOW IT, but life, in some form, is tenacious, and will hold, long after anything we throw at it.

So, I stand by my statement that we cannot, in fact “harm the planet” nor “save the planet”, from an objective point of view. The planet will survive, and so will A biosphere, no matter what we do to it. What we WILL be able to do is kill ourselves, hence why we need non-fossil fuel-based, sustainable resources… but I’m under no illusions that we’re doing it primarily to save our own skins, and I’m comfortable with that!

Purely from a capacity-outlook, wind farms and so on just won’t cut the mustard. That’s why I think that gimmicks like this phone, whilst being undeniably fabulous PR, are actually holding people back from achieving genuine scientific breakthroughs, that COULD do some good.

Besides which, that crank handle on the back looks like it’d be a nightmare to use!

Once again, great comment, thanks for posting, and keep ‘em coming!

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