Are humans a virus in the earth? (global warming, border, solution)
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"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
When you look at human behavior, this isn't far from the truth. Without any kind of regulation, humans would completely destroy this planet, poison the air and seas, and eliminate most species within decades in the name of the almighty dollar. Look at what is happening over in Asia and Africa right now. Endangered animals being slaughtered by the thousands for things like Ivory or simply for trophy hunting. Nuclear waste spilling into the Pacific Ocean with no plan whatsoever. Mountains being flattened to build cities and to create farmland in China. Closer to home, you have big oil wanting a build a pipeline which could poison the water supply for a third of the country. You have oil companies wanting to drill and destroy some of the last remaining lands on this planet that haven't been spoiled by humans and eventually they will get their way. For what? So some CEO can have another timeshare on the beaches of South Florida? This cannot go on forever, but people just don't care. What good is a trillion dollars is the planet is destroyed?
The thing is, unlike a virus, humans can live in equilibrium with nature if they so choose. Problem is, we are a very greedy species and most people choose not to do so.
So question is, are humans a virus to the planet? If so, what is the solution?
Are you really going to base your mentality on Hollywood flicks with quite mediocre story line?
That's coming from Matrix huge fan, btw. But I like it for CGIs and fighting scenes, that's it, mind filters the rest away.
Anyhow. No, humans are not virus. They actually are not what they appear and so is Earth. Every human has its purpose on the Earth crust and in the universe, as every human is representation of the universe in itself. Vice versa, everything physical is result of human thoughts, direct or indirect, as human thinking animates matter and provides it with templates for its forms, organic or not.
I agree with the OP. Mankind is a virus on the planet. Wherever people go they leave their trash. It is at the bottom of the oceans and it is going up Mount Everest. Money is driving this destruction nature.
People pretty much ravage the landscape and alter nature either in a lab or in the physical world in all manner of destructiveness.
The world is not a nicey nice place and Mother Nature has killed off her share of creatures through the eons but man is doing pretty well in catching up.
When you think about global warming it is a result of too many people and it is like the planet has a fever. There are too many people and eventually we will outstrip the available resources at our disposal and there will be a decline in the population.
The Planet will eventually reset itself. If humans disappeared tomorrow the planet would go on.
The planet is perfectly fine with or without humans living on it. Take Mercury for example; average surface temperature is that of molten lead, it will not support life as we know it; is there anything wrong with the planet its self nope. What humans will need to perform is adjust how we live so we can continue to live and continue to have life flourish on this planet.
True poison of the planet. No other specie destroy the planet as human does. People could choose other way but.. fashion, trashion, financy and other irrelevant things
Humans are just doing what every animal species does when they are very successful. They consume everything they can get their hands/paws/claws on until it's all gone. Then the games up and there's a very brutal "reset" which re-levels the balance and the process starts again...
There is a borderline wacky theory that viruses are a type of life that originally evolved on another planet and somehow ended up being released on Earth. I kinda believe it... or at least think that it's possible. We have a lot in common with bacteria but viruses are undeniably alien, even though they've been part of live on earth for millions of years. Hell, even bacteria itself might have originally made it's way here from other planets and eventually evolved into the grand scope of earthly life, making us all technically aliens.
Anyway, (unlike viruses) with humans you clearly see we're still built on the same basic premise as other earthly life and that we even easily fit into our essentially made-up classification systems. You don't even need DNA...Strip a chimp and you'll see how close we are to each other...
Last edited by Jeo123; 08-10-2015 at 12:02 PM..
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No..we are NOT a "virus'...virus' will stop before they destroy themselves. We, apparently, won't.
That is not entirely accurate, take the Ebola virus for example it will continue to replicate until it has killed it's host; also it does not survive long outside a host body which is why we have not had large outbreaks of Ebola. But the virus will continue until it kills the host; which will kill it's self if it has not found a new host to inhabit
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Are humans a virus in the earth?
