Does anyone ever get a feeling that our planet doesn't want us anymore?

Question

and it's trying to get rid of us. Anyone think the planet is alive just like us? I mean if insects attack a tree, after a while it will develop ways to cope and even fight back by evolving. Think something similar happened to Earth?

Answer 1

Yep. Thats whats happening. A massive rock is tired of being exploited.

Yes. thats it. Must be. The rocks will soon be throwing themselves at us, and the apple trees will start throwing apples at us just like in the Wizard of Oz. Now if we could just get a consensus.

Its going to happen I tells ya!

Answer 2

No, its a piece of rock.

Answer 3

You honestly believe the planet is doing this to us? We are doing this to ourselves. The biosphere tries to regulate itself but our growth is so exponential and we are using up too many resources that it cannot reach equilibrium at a rate to match our rate of growth and consumption.When humans go extinct, it will be because we were too careless to solve the problem early enough to make a change, not because the biosphere formed a defense mechanism against us.

Answer 4

Yes, the theory that the planet is essentially one complex living organism is called the Gaia Hypothesis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypoth...

The Gaia hypothesis is an ecological hypothesis that proposes that living and nonliving parts of the earth are a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism. Named after the Greek earth goddess, this hypothesis postulates that all living things have a regulatory effect on the Earth's environment that promotes life overall.

An example of the change in acceptability of Gaia theories is the Amsterdam declaration of the scientific communities of four international global change research programmes - the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the international biodiversity programme DIVERSITAS - recognise that, in addition to the threat of significant climate change, there is growing concern over the ever-increasing human modification of other aspects of the global environment and the consequent implications for human well-being.

They state

"Research carried out over the past decade under the auspices of the four programmes to address these concerns has shown that:

The Earth System behaves as a single, self-regulating system comprised of physical, chemical, biological and human components. The interactions and feedbacks between the component parts are complex and exhibit multi-scale temporal and spatial variability. The understanding of the natural dynamics of the Earth System has advanced greatly in recent years and provides a sound basis for evaluating the effects and consequences of human-driven change.

Human activities are significantly influencing Earth's environment in many ways in addition to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Anthropogenic changes to Earth's land surface, oceans, coasts and atmosphere and to biological diversity, the water cycle and biogeochemical cycles are clearly identifiable beyond natural variability. They are equal to some of the great forces of nature in their extent and impact. Many are accelerating. Global change is real and is happening now.

Global change cannot be understood in terms of a simple cause-effect paradigm. Human-driven changes cause multiple effects that cascade through the Earth System in complex ways. These effects interact with each other and with local- and regional-scale changes in multidimensional patterns that are difficult to understand and even more difficult to predict.

Earth System dynamics are characterised by critical thresholds and abrupt changes. Human activities could inadvertently trigger such changes with severe consequences for Earth's environment and inhabitants. The Earth System has operated in different states over the last half million years, with abrupt transitions (a decade or less) sometimes occurring between them. Human activities have the potential to switch the Earth System to alternative modes of operation that may prove irreversible and less hospitable to humans and other life. The probability of a human-driven abrupt change in Earth's environment has yet to be quantified but is not negligible.

In terms of some key environmental parameters, the Earth System has moved well outside the range of the natural variability exhibited over the last half million years at least. The nature of changes now occurring simultaneously in the Earth System, their magnitudes and rates of change are unprecedented. The Earth is currently operating in a no-analogue state."

Answer 5

No

Answer 6

(Hi Neighborhood Athiest, saw one of your questions just a few minutes ago)

I don't think the earth is trying to give us up, we're just an organism in this place like all others...and being the most intelligent is a great thing to appreciate, but we need to be the ones to limit ourselves and use what we have to figure living in peace with nature itself...

Answer 7

You think way too much to come up with that theory!!!

If it was alive and wanted to get rid of us, it would give the entire world a massive earthquake, tornado, and hail the size of our head...not little by little.

Now, why don't you get some sleep and wake up to reality, lol!!!

Answer 8

Yeah, well action leads to reaction right?

As we throw earth's equilibrium out of balance, it will go crazy until equilibrium is restored...in this case, it will be the death of our civilization, as our unbalancing won't stop until we are gone. Only then will the earth settle.

Unless we change.

Answer 9

ITS NOT THE PLANET, BUT WHATS BEEN LANDING ON EARTH FOR OVER HUNDREDS OF YEARS. THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING COMES FROM A MUCH HIGHER TECHNOLOGY THAN WHAT MAN HAS. THINK OF IT. TO ACTUALLY WEAKEN THE INVISIBLE FORCEFIELD (OZONE) TO ONLY ALLOW MORE SUN RAYS TO EARTH AND NOT ALLOW OUTERSPACE INSIDE, OR OUR ATMOSPHERE OUTSIDE, BUT TO ALLOW SOLID OBJECTS THROUGH THE FORCEFIELD AT THE SAME TIME. THINK.

Answer 10

No. The planet loves me. I was told by a deer in the forest that they really do not like you though. Something about all the whining and crying. Of course, I heard all that third person (or deer) so it may not be true.

Answer 11

Other organisms or creatures through Viruses can do so.

Burning a whole in The Ozone Layer does make a person wonder about intelligence.

Human Evolution  is not yet over.     There is a book on war which says that if all the powers were to use all their weapons  at once in a World War today 1 million people would die a minute. The book says we have to change and can but that is must be fast as such a war is just in abeyance even if powers have no interest in such a war at the current time.  The Human Right To Peace in all Constitution Human Righ to ownership and control of resources by humans in their respective areas of the planet could help.  The point being not that the oil resources be put to use but that people have the right to conserve them if they so desire.  The other means could be to use UN Security Resolutions to  authorize  the removal of Oil Based Cars as Weapons Of Mass Desstruction. A car is essentialy a bomb and people  fight over fuel for their bombs so they can drive them hence they are a cause also of war. The Weapons Of Mass Destruction are not in Iraq but driven in streets all around the world. If  there was a mass explosion on a freeway this could equal a nuclear weapon. If all of the cars went of in The U.S.A. through an accident it would be like  a weapon of mass destruction.  Citizens could enforce an end to war by removing the bombs they drive in from the road and by stopping more Oil Wars. Possible reason for not finding weapons of mass destructions are citizens could have already replaced them with electric cars.