ג'ורג' קרלין, סטנדאפיסט ושחקן אמריקאי,מוכר בעיקר בשל דעותיו השנויות במחלוקת באשר לשפה, פסיכולוגיה ודת (קרלין היה אתאיסט), לצד נושאים רבים הנחשבים בגדר טאבו.

במופע הבא הוא מסביר למה בעצם בני האדם הם חסרי חשיבות על פני כדור הארץ

מצחיק ומעורר מחשבה
"Save the planet? We can't even take care of ourselves yet!"
"The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, "Why are we here?" Plastic...asshole."