Yes,  yes, by all means useful idiots;  let us save the whales, save the snails, save the trees, save the seas, save the worms, and save the germs.  Of course, we must carbon tax all those greedy polluting capitalists into bankruptcy under one world government by the United Nations to save the planet from GORED BULL warming for the greater glory of the goddess Gaia.  The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots,magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, word-wide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion cosmic rays, and recurring ice ages.  Two hundred thousand years man has been here versus the planet for four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat?