Thread: What is a proper punishment for destroying The Earth?

Well, I take some comfort in the fact that the Twelve Steps--about the most practical approach to spiritual life I know of, beneficial way beyond alcoholism--say nothing about punishment, self-flagellation, or anything of the sort:

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. ...

~Rich

(BTW, apologies if I'm answering the thread in a more serious vein than it was posted in; I haven't been following what seems to be earlier discussion here, so am probably missing some context.--R