Who does the earth belong to?

Answer 1

The earth belongs to the people who live on it.

Wrong answer. The earth doesn't BELONG to anybody. We're just temporary residents of it. We should try to take care of it so that it's around for our descendants, and even despite our best efforts to screw it up, it probably will be.

The earth has been around for almost four BILLION years, whereas mankind has only been here for a million or two - figuratively speaking, a mere blink of an eye. It's been covered, alternately, with volcanoes and with ice, with acid rain and methane gas clouds, and struck by huge meteors which extinguished the lives of virtually every living thing. Despite what you might think, a stray styrofoam cup, or the smoke from a cigarette isn't gonna destroy the earth.

It pains many people to even think it, but as a race, humanity ain't nothing special. That doesn't mean what we should be slobs - just that we need to get over ourselves. In the grand scheme, you and I and everybody else are just temporary collections of junk with opposable thumbs and a few brain cells, that just happened to learn to walk on two feet.

Answer 2

The Earth does not belong to any specific individual or group. It is a shared resource for all living beings to coexist and thrive. It is our responsibility to protect and preserve the Earth for future generations.