would outweigh the rest of the planets combined. Astronomers like to say the planets of the Solar System are Jupiter plus debris. Our planet is like an ant crawling across a DVD when compared to massive Jupiter. The Earth's diameter is 12,756 kilometers, or just under 8000 miles across. Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a gigantic hurricane that has been churning across the face of the planet since it was first discovered nearly 350 years ago, is by itself nearly double the size of the tiny blue-green marble we call home. If we suddenly found ourselves orbiting Jupiter, our Earth would merely make a very pretty addition to the King's swarming family of 60 moons. Grasping Jupiter's status as the Solar System's heavyweight makes it easy to understand how vulnerable our tiny planet is to human mismanagement. Our planet is small and very finite. The capacity of the Earth's atmosphere to absorb the ever increasing amounts of garbage we've been dumping into it since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century is amazing but definitely not limitless. Some type of backlash is bound to happen sooner or later, and when it does, the results aren't going to be pretty. Hundreds of reports by learned scientists are not needed to understand this fact. Images of bleached coral reefs and and expanding deserts are not required. Lectures from a former vice-president of the United States are not necessary. People only have to imagine the mind-bending size of Jupiter as it