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originally posted by: pl3bscheese
a reply to: Nurelic
We're the dominant species on this planet, the highest on the food chain, and have been screwing up ecosystem's pretty bad for a long while. 7% of human's to ever have lived are currently breathing the air in the atmosphere.
I think you can pick anything that wrecks havoc on their environment/host and find similarities. Balance will need be had at some point. In some ways, the mechanisms to bring about that balance are already in play, but won't be felt in full force for decades to come. I think we'll weather some rather harsh times, stabilize or drop in numbers on Earth, and start detaching and spreading out into the galaxy eventually.
originally posted by: Nurelic
From the Earth's perspective... are we nothing more than an intrusive parasite?...
originally posted by: pl3bscheese
a reply to: Nurelic
We're the dominant species on this planet, the highest on the food chain, and have been screwing up ecosystem's pretty bad for a long while. 7% of human's to ever have lived are currently breathing the air in the atmosphere.
I think you can pick anything that wrecks havoc on their environment/host and find similarities. Balance will need be had at some point. In some ways, the mechanisms to bring about that balance are already in play, but won't be felt in full force for decades to come. I think we'll weather some rather harsh times, stabilize or drop in numbers on Earth, and start detaching and spreading out into the galaxy eventually.
originally posted by: pl3bscheese
a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
I'm interested to know, how would we go about "bettering the world" ? Isn't this always an anthrocentric saying? I think nature does a good job of managing this planet for the time being. How do you envision we would better it, besides for ourselves?
originally posted by: M5xaz
a reply to: Nurelic
No.
From the Earth's perspective, we are her children, Earth's response to the meteor hits that nearly wiped out ALL life on Earth several times.
Humans are Earth's ONLY hope to permit earth life to spread and survive on other worlds
Leftists omit the fact that WE are part of the biosphere.
Malthus, Erlich and the rest are monsters as well as failed prophets.
originally posted by: Tangerine
a reply to: Anyafaj
I think humans are certainly a parasite but we won't destroy the earth. As George Carlin said, the earth will eventually shake us off like fleas. That is not to say that we haven't damaged the earth but the earth will prevail and humans won't.