Earths Collapse "Imminent"

[TheRightToArmBears]

Well, I'll probably be dead by then. I'll be training my kids in crazy survival tactics like how to cook people.

 

[McMullen]

Eh, the Earth is going to be fine. It survived a whole lot more then anything we can throw at it.

Have you seen how big an explosion a nuclear bomb makes?

Do you know how many of those things we have?

If we wanted to we could tear this planet in half, I think it's foolish to doubt, and not fear, the power of human ingenuity.

ETA: Some perspective-


That's the equivalent to 1 ton of TNT. The 8000 nuclear warheads we have in the US alone have the yield of up to 10,000,000 tons of TNT. 8000 We could rip this planet a new one easily.

ETA: Even more perspective.


Most of our weapons are almost 40,000 times more powerful than this.

Major meteorite impacts, earthquakes, and even volcanic eruptions routinely (on the timescale of Earth's history) exceed the energy output of the entire world's nuclear stockpile. The Earth is still here, and life is still present on it. You are too easily impressed.