Earth is fine. This isn't the first mass extinction event and it won't be the last. Of course some species will die out, but more broadly, life is remarkably resiliant.

We're not destroying the Earth, we're destroying OUR habitat and the things WE depend on. It's our water supply that we're endangering; algae doesn't care what we do.

There was a flag you could set in your browser to automatically block (not accept) tracking cookies, called Do Not Track ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )

Unfortunately websites didn't honor it and it was ultimately abandoned as being another attempt at creating the "Evil Bit".

However we CAN automatically remove a large number of cookie popups, using browser addons.

The most popular is consent-o-matic, which detects popups with heuristics. This can be configured to allow tracking cookies if you want, but if you "don't give a damn" denying them should be fine...:
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

There are also other approaches, such as cookie cutter, which allows new sites to be configured on the fly. This particular addon only denies cookies and has no way to accept them, but it does ensure you never see the popups:
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

I don't like seeing cookie consent popups either (I don't think anyone does), but in my opinion it's way better than just tracking everything *without* consent, which was what they were doing before. And the good thing about computers is they can automate repetitive tasks like clicking on these things.

remember how this was the wrong date for ignorant hysteria anyway? http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/1517242/2012-a-Miscalculation-Actual-Calendar-Ends-2220?from=rss please, let's get our irrational doomsday theories correct.

if 4chan was a garden of Eden, shouldn't it have been quarantined by a flaming sword? someone should get on that...