The resulting Guardian article — ominously headlined «Aliens may destroy humanity to
protect other civilizations, say NASA scientists» — created quite a stir on the web, particularly because the scientists made reference to the possibility that increasing levels of greenhouse gases could attract the attention of hostile aliens.
Not exact matches
God takes care of innocent children, but wipes out certain
civilizations by water, fire, or wars to
protect others and the future generations, since He is the righteous Creator.
They observed that American Indians, Africans, Inuit, and
other groups were free from the diseases of
civilization (including cancer), and the theory was that it was actually the meat that
protected them (as opposed to replacing animal protein with
other things, presumably carbs).
A movement based on the above principles could
protect millions of acres of wilderness more stringently than could any congressional act, could insure the propagation of the Grizzly and
other threatened life forms better than could an army of game wardens, and could lead to the retreat of industrial
civilization from large areas of forest, mountain, desert, prairie, seashore, swamp, tundra, and woodland that are better suited to the maintenance of native diversity than to the production of raw materials for over consumptive technological human society.