So the aliens might wipe us out because of our carbon emissions?
I don’t think these NASA scientists have considered how risky and untenable our position truly is. Carbon emissions are just one good reason aliens might wipe us out. Consider a few others:
- Our inadequate city planning
- Our atrocious table manners
- Our lack of antennae, gills, forehead ridges, or other arbitrary alien facial features that their sci-fi shows insist we ought to have
- Our blasphemous refusal to bow down Zobador, Crustacean Lord of the Universe
- American Idol
- Our too-frequent tendency to end sentences with “you know?”
- Our color pollution of the planet (e.g., they might really hate purple)
I’m sure there are lots of other equally likely reasons. Can you name some?
