According to a report produced by scientists from NASA and Pennsylvania State University, space aliens could attack earth to save it from environmental damage allegedly brought about by human activity.
The UK Guardian reports:
"Green" aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. "These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets," the authors write.
The 33-page report explores a variety of scenarios under which extraterrestrials could make contact with humanity, and the environmental scenario is just one possibility:
While humanity has not yet observed any extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), contact with ETI remains possible. Contact could occur through a broad range of scenarios that have varying consequences for humanity. However, many discussions of this question assume that contact will follow a particular scenario that derives from the hopes and fears of the author. In this paper, we analyze a broad range of contact scenarios in terms of whether contact with ETI would benefit or harm humanity. This type of broad analysis can help us prepare for actual contact with ETI even if the details of contact do not fully resemble any specific scenario.
Scenarios of contact are divided into three categories: beneficial, neutral or harmful.
The Guardian reports:
Beneficial encounters ranged from the mere detection of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), for example through the interception of alien broadcasts, to contact with cooperative organisms that help us advance our knowledge and solve global problems such as hunger, poverty and disease.
The Guardian observes that encounters could leave humanity indifferent to the existence of such aliens, or the aliens themselves could become a nuisance, like the creatures in the movie District 9.
Or, perhaps, aliens could take exception to the existence of carbon dioxide and decide to wipe us out.
The authors of the report note:
The possibility of harmful contact with ETI suggests that we may use some caution for METI [Messages to extra-terrestrial intelligence]. Given that we have already altered our environment in ways that may viewed as unethical by universalist ETI, it may be prudent to avoid sending any message that shows evidence of our negative environmental impact. The chemical composition of Earth’s atmosphere over recent time may be a poor choice for a message because it would show a rapid accumulation of carbon dioxide from human activity.
Of course, the report is full of speculation, since no documented contact with extra-terrestrial life has yet been made.
Calling the report "an embarrassment," Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit notes:
NASA, the once prestigious space agency, has morphed into a junk science outlet that focuses on Muslim outreach and space alien sensitivities to global warming climate change.
Oh… And they dropped the Shuttle program.
A post at the conservative blog Hot Air calls the study "stupid and agenda driven" and asks two questions:
At the risk of remotely legitimizing a “study” this impossibly stupid and agenda-driven, let me ask two obvious questions. One: If E.T. is watching and worried about us conquering the galaxy or whatever, shouldn’t they have given us the Alderaan treatment at the start of the nuclear age? It’s inane to think they’d be more worried about climate change that we can’t control than catastrophic blasts of radioactive fire that we can. Two: There’s no good reason to think that an alien intelligence’s knowledge of human civilization would be limited to a metric as crude as changes in the atmosphere. If they’re capable of invading or destroying us from afar, they’re probably capable of close observation to detect whether we’ve made any advances that might threaten other planets. Even if they’re limited to atmospheric observations, why wouldn’t they have destroyed us at the start of the industrial revolution when greenhouse gases first started filling the air?
The only question that needs to be asked is: How long will it take Al Gore to produce a movie using "proof" from this study showing aliens will wipe us out unless we embrace global socialism?
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