A visitor from outer space arrives, and after one look at the planet says, "I want to see the manager."

Question

Where do we send him? Who is accountable for the shape of the planet as it stands today?

Thanks and apologies to W.S. Burroughs

Answer 1

People who believe they can own it.  One might as well claim to own the stars or the wind.  People who think the only things that are real, true, and proven are the things that affect white Americans.  People who think the acquisition of property defines their value as human beings.

Answer 2

Please  Send  the visitors my way. What a Great Question.

Carroll

Answer 3

Send him to a World Conference.

Everybodys responsible.

Answer 4

Well everybody here says God is in charge ,

So he is the one who should be fired for incompetence

his flock is out of control

At the end of the day the creator is responsible for the mess his creations  have caused.

If you breed cobras or a killer disease that goes and kills everybody it is the owner of the cobras or the technician who created the disease who are responsible.

God should have set better examples,created better people with better attitudes .

Instead of the ones who only want to have wars and destroy.

Because it is the Attitude that is the killer ,the overall philosophy.And always guidance ,or punishment is referred to a higher Authority,the  father ,the boss ,the government or God

But those who believe in God could never come to terms with an imperfect creator and they get out of this by saying that nothing is wrong there are no disasters ,It is all lies

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Pagans dont have this luxury,we believe that all responsibility lies with the individual or ones immediate peers.

With tribal law ,or Natures law ,or the law of the jungle .it is the individual ,the pack or local council ,who have to take the decisions  ,the responsibility.the punishment and the rewards.



If the whole world had been structured like that ,the Alien would not have needed to see the global manager ,he could have addressed anyone who stood before him.

But this independent responsible attitude is hated by everyone else ,and we are attacked as filthy environmentalists ,bloody tree huggers etc.by the hypocrites who cannot voice the words ---we humans are responsible

so the blame it on the  Chinese

Answer 5

We are all held accountable. I mean think about everyone does something harmful to the planet at least once in thier lifetime whether they realize it or not. There are at least two things we all have in common. We are all human, and we are all held accountable for Earth because we live on it.

Kind Lady

Answer 6

We'd have to send them to the Chinese, who have 1/5 of the world's population, contribute the most CO2 and black carbon to increase global warming, and they're sucking up the world's resources from cement to copper to beef to gasoline at a rate that is driving up everyone's prices.  Approximately 25-40% of California's air pollution has been determined to be arriving from Asia, and much of the particulate matter changing the albedo of Greenland's ice comes from Asia.

They're even starting to build suburbs, copying the mistakes of others, even though that land use pattern is built on the assumption of cheap transportation.

The Chinese of course will send the aliens packing because they believe they have the moral entitlement to be just as damaging to the planet as all Westerners that lived and polluted in the past (they only point to cumulative emissions or per capita current measures).  That is, unless the aliens want to build factories to build cheap alien goods in China.  Alien probes perhaps...