How easy would it be to destroy the Earth?

We can never destroy the earth. But some day the sun will.

At worst we can destroy many life forms on earth, including ourselves.

But no matter what we do and don’t do, some day a couple of billion years from now, our dear earth will become like most other planets, bereft of man and mosquito, bird and beast, fish and fowl, apples and apricots.

It will continue to whirl around the hot old sun in pitched darkness, for without eyes all space is but bleak blackness.

It will continue this routine dance around the sun subject to countless eclipses for another billion or more years, stoned by many meteors and perhaps asteroids too, still tilted on its axis; and silently, with no sound of sigh or song, and none to hear or record or measure the vibrations in the air and the roar of waves and storms, very much like any other massive lifeless body splattered in the solar system; until some day our sun will swell grotesquely, gobbling up Mercury and Venus and dear Earth too.

I am so glad I will not be there to watch that eerie tragic catastrphe in the solar system! Or so it seems to me now.