There are some goofy supernatural faiths about intelligent arbiters of laws governing the universe but Queen of the Goof Troop is the “mother earth” bullshit.
The earth is not a “mother”. It’s a rock in space with mold growths on it. It doesn’t birth nor nurture any offspring – it’s a ball of dirt that things live on in spite of it.
People rightly mock religious folks (usually American Christians) who say things like hurricanes and other natural disasters are Gods punishment on humans for not obeying his rules but when dopey hippies say the same nonsense about “mother earth” exacting revenge for the same reasons, the general tone is to lend it a degree of “well, you never know” respect as if it is any less bananas.
This moldy space rock doesn’t take “revenge” because it isn’t sentient. Humans are the highest life forms in the petri-sphere and there’s no reason to act any less in service to god-ifying the dirt underneath us.
“Mother earth” doesn’t even care about trash. Littering is a human annoyance, not a danger to the earth. Debris we don’t care for is only an eyesore to other humans – the earth doesn’t care. Plastics can be a problem for other lifeforms that eat it, but that ain’t “mother earth” suffering any more than other humans being negatively affected by pollution or improper waste disposal.
Get a grip, hippies. Earth ainch yo momma and she don’t care bout you.
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