“…so that they resembled nothing so much as ents at a rave dance party.”

Wretchard, lines like that are much of the reason why I love coming here.

As for resiliance, sane/honest people know the planet is much more resiliant than the greens try to make out. People are very resiliant as well being made from the stuff of earth like we are. People have survived under extreme circumstances (the last ice age, the Soviet empire, the dark ages, Florida summers etc.) hell people would even survive an Algore world, but that pursuit of happiness thing would be out the mud thatched window.