Animals know when to sleep, eat and play. Humans are excessive and destructive to the environment.?

Question

Why do humans not follow natural order. Or do they?

Answer 1

Because we have developed the ability to reason with ourselves. Rather than just respond to primal urges, we can reason our decisions, justifying why we aren't doing what we should be doing, downside of intelligence my friend!!

Answer 2

They dont, your right, but we are only human after all lol

Answer 3

Unfortunately, there are humans out there who never have enough.

edit; You pose an interesting question, and i'm sure your answer will lie somewhere between nature and nurture.

Answer 4

It's human ego.  

We think we know better and can step outside the natural order. In a way our tendency toward arrogance and thinking outside the box is good because we can accomplish so much more than if we just rolled with the flow.  Were we not so determined, brilliant and headstrong we'd miss things like urban living, inventing the airplane and curing disease.  

Still the natural order cannot be improved on.  This is the only box we have.

We first need to realize it, appreciate it, finally choose to minimize our effect on it....instead of improving transportation off.

To me it looks like we invest so much in the various space programs so when we finally DO succeed in rendering the planet uninhabitable, we can all be bussed somewhere else.  Voyager, Endeavor and Spirit out there scouting for a new neighborhood, for a suitable locale now.

  I 'd rather just spend the money to fix up this place.  

I kind of like it here.

Answer 5

It is 'Human Behaviour' and not 'Humans' which are excessive and destructive to the environment.

As to 'following the natural order', it depends on how you define the 'natural order', doesn't it.

I worked for 14 years permanently on Nights ~ finding myself sleeping well during the day and having no discomforts.  I watched a Channel 4 (UK) TV programme on this very subject and on the 'Circadian Rhythms'.  A research project in the French / German border area where they used  students who were placed in an underground compound to

live for some 10 - 14 day period.

They were given no reference to the outside world (no radio or TV nor newspapers) nor reference to Time (no watches, clocks), and were monitored via computer and human systems, for their patterns ~ with regards to their Sleep, Eating, Working etc routines.

The results were that each of the subjects had their own individual Circadian Rhythms ~ and which rarely coincided with any setting or rising of the sun cycles.  So quite where the term 'Natural' fits into your scheme of things re Humans here....!

Funnily enough, I later met a Doctor who asked me how I experienced 'Night work' and I told him the story (as above) re Circadian rhythms and Channel 4, and it turned out that he'd asked me because he'd worked on that research project himself and was curious for my experience.

Sash.

Answer 6

Humans are actually just parasites.  We don't really belong to any particular food chain anymore.  We change the environment to suit ourselves and we don't contribute anything to the well-being of the planet.

Humans have pretended the natural order to suit our own ends and I believe it will be our downfall.

Answer 7

Its called evolution and its not our fault that we were blessed with such large brains. We have followed a natural order that has brought us here. Every dominating species eventually dies off and another takes its place that is evolution. The dinosaurs had a good run then they died off. Eventually some great catastrophe will occur and we shall meet our fate. As for knowing when to eat sleep S**t play etc of course we have the same instincts as other animals we just have the power to adapt them to what we want to do and when.

Answer 8

Yeah I get you. Some do, some don't. Greed?

Answer 9

Humans exist in disequilibrium. We evolved from species where there was competition for food/shelter. Now that we live in societies of excess, our chemical nature keeps telling us that we need to eat as much as we can and populate everywhere. The only way this will change is once we have overpopulated and there is once again competition. It is the basis of organisms that we strive for individual gain over the benefit of the species/population.

Answer 10

Because we don't like like animals and find a balance with nature.

We act more like a virus and disease, spreading, consuming and killing.

Answer 11

Rabbits in Australia?

(yes OK it was man who introduced them into that environment)

OK erm... grey squirrels..