Yes, mankind with his pollution of the ground, air and skies is irreparably harming the earth and making it difficult for us earth bound star gazers to see the heavens, so with this in mind I propose the following- -Simply eliminate mankind from the earth! -Oh but wait! Some damn monkey someplace will just evolve bigger brains again and then some form of intelligent(?) life will reappear and start ruining the environment all over again, so we need a different approach; - Instead of starting at the top, we will have to start at the bottom and work upwards to eliminate the possibility of mankind ever re-evolving again. So here's what I propose= Start with all single cell and smaller life forms to include viruses and kill them all, then working upwards eliminate all higher life forms, after all we can't take the chance of sea snails developing shells that seem to last forever, or dinosaurs ever evolving since they fart methane, leave those tacky footprints in the mud that hang around for millions upon millions of years, then they have the nerve and gall to actually DIE and leave bones scattered all over the place for us to have to clean up millions of years later! How dare them!! Of course if we let any plant life at all survive then they will, given enough time dare to leave their bi-products of oxygen, which that alone may somehow allow intelligent(?)life to reform and propagate, so all plant life must go. All life of any type must be totally eradicated once and for all. Who needs all those pesky butterflies and weed flowers anyway? - But use earth bound ecologically correct star gazers still have problems! How dare the earth to have any sort of atmosphere at all? After all is was largely polluted by living organisms introducing polluting gases like methane, carbon dioxide and oxygen! NO GREENHOUSE GASES ALLOWED! Especially those organic ones! OK, so the atmosphere has got to go! It just hinders our attempts at seeing the heavens anyway. Hmmm...water vapor from the sea must also go, we can't have those damned clouds and water molecules blocking our view, so yeah, the water has to go also, especially with it around, some errant life form on some errant meteor might strike the earth and re-seed it again- so water is OUTTA HERE! Now before we can eliminate the real bad guy-us humans, in all of this, we MUST CLEAN UP OUR MESS, without making more of a polluting mess in the process, so to that end- Go to your electrical circuit breaker box and flip that larger circuit breaker to the OFF position. From there very carefully take all of the gasoline, oil and other fluids from your cars, homes and businesses, walk down to the recycle center and turn all of that filthy garbage in and do so RESPONSIBLY. Be careful not to trip and fall since there won't be any lights at night, so this can only be done responsibly during the daytime. Then get out your pick axes, hammers, shovels, wrecking bars and the like and start tearing down ALL traces of any kind that any life form has ever left and put it back the way nature intended for it to be. When this task is 110% complete and only then, take your hand tools and toss them into the ocean so that eventually the materials they are made from will decompose as best as possible. (Hmmm...darn! we already eliminated the water huh?) Ok, we will have to bury them deep, VERY deep within the earth, so that they may be reabsorbed naturally back into the earth. This process should be great accelerated since there won't be any atmosphere (if we have all been responsible human beings and done our part to clean up the mess) to block the UV and other types of NATURALLY destructive processes that happen to fall upon the earth. We just have to make sure there are no organic hitchhikers that may start the process all over again! To that end and as an insurance policy against future contamination of the natural earth, we MUST immediately erect a solar powered sophisticated star wars type laser defense system in outer space to insure that no more particles, comets, meteors and such ever impact the earth again that might restart and reseed the whole mess all over again! Of course, we must make sure that NONE of these ever get in the way of the natural rays of the sun that fall upon the earth, or block our views of the heavens in any way. There we go! Problem SOLVED! Let's get to work! -Barrett or "The Big Bad Eco Terrorist"