Oh did you mean destroy as in reduce it to little crumbs? Well in that case, no. I thought you meant the planet's atmosphere and things like that.

We're already deep into the process, my friend.

I think that using the nuclear power we have now we could destroy the planet if we really wanted. Korea and Russia would help us get enough bomb-diggities that the world explodes.

Well, yeah. We're doing it. ALso, if it's done right, anything can be destroyed.

Haha this is so funny xD

Just build 10 nuclear bombs and throw them inside various volcanoes around the globe and watch the fireworks go !

If we're all dead how do we know the Earth's still here hmm......?

Oh hell yes. Just fire off one nuke. Just one bloody nuclear missile will set off every goddam cold-war and anti-terrorism defense around globe.

Not even cockroaches will remain.

I think we can. For example: Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Years ago, it was thriving with coral. Suddenly, development occurred. Fertilizer from people's lawns washed away in storms and flowed into the bay. All of the extra nitrogen and phosphorous in the fertilizer caused a bloom in the algae in the Bay. This bloom caused the coral reefs under water to die off. Recently, people have been trying to put coral back in the bay and enclose the bay so that runoff water cannot enter.

Yes, we CAN destroy the world. Will we? I don't think so.

Well, even if we have a nuclear war, the planet will continue (even if 99% of life is destroyed).

The planet has been through 10x worse shit than we could ever pull off, and it was by its own means.

Even if we kill off ourselves through nuclear war, the planet will go on as it did with out us.

No. Life will find a way. We will perish before we leave this planet lifeless. Only arrogance would lead one to believe that we are all powerful.

People we could probably wipe out if we really put our minds to it. It would take a combination though of all the nukes, plus the creation of crazy diseases to be let loose on the population.

It would take a monumental effort on our part, as there's tribes in the middle of the amazon that haven't seen an outsider in centuries, eskimos, tiny islands populated only by natives, villages in the Himalayas that are nearly impossible to get to, etc. Plus endless caves and bunkers for remnants of humanity to hide out undisturbed for generations if they chose.

Eventually though, sure, we could kill all the people.

And most mamals.

But insects, bacteria, microorganisms, plants, ocean life, and the earth itself, forget it,

It would be like a colony of ants trying to tear down the great wall of China, pathetic, sad, and a little humorous to any outsider watching the display.

That we're still incapable of destroying the entire earth however, is not an excuse to not attempt to preserve the earth in a state more comfortable to the human race.

well technically speaking man is unable to muster the combined explosive force required to destroy the planet however destroying all life is possible well except cocroaches and rats who seem to be capable of surviving in any enviroment with oxegen and even that is open to debate. but back to the topic the world is big we've been nailed by astroids the size of texas in the anceint pass so man can not destroy earth

hmm... sorry i forgot where we lived, hang on let me remember.. oh yeah! this planet! hm.. now lets see here, if we live on something and requrie it to live, and we destroy it, hmm.. what happenes to us?? wait, we die!