The earth will survive.

From PBS.ORG, hardly a right wing organization....

"Mt St. Helens. The eruption also sent more than 540 million tons of volcanic ash raining down over 22,000 square miles, covering Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska, and sending ash drifting as far away as Virginia. From space, the eruption initially took the shape of a giant mushroom cloud, signifying a blast 400 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
life quickly returned to the scorched earth near Mount Saint Helens. The rapid regeneration surprised most scientists, who believed that the rebirth would occur in steady, regular stages. Instead, nature ran riot, led by dozens of organisms that had amazingly survived the devastation. Moles, tiny pocket gophers, and ants survived because they were buried when the explosion occured. And saplings and shurbs buried in the snow survived, while the taller trees were devastated.
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We can't outdo nature no matter how snobbish and arrogant we are. Leftists have a intellectual complex that makes them think we can actually affect the world more than the worlds ability to deal with us as organisms of the earth. Get over yourself lefty loonies.