I have something to share, what do you think about it?

Question

Everything in universe, on earth, the living creatures, are all parts of a system. So "altering or destroying" a single of them affects the whole thing.

But we human beings are different. It is our "existence" that affects the whole thing. it is like we are not a part of this systematic world. Without us, the world will survive for millions of years. But as we step in, it weakens as if we are a virus - e.g. global warming would have not happened if we would not exist.

We do not belong to this world! What do you think?

Answer 1

I think we belong here given that we didn't seem to have come from someplace else.

And, I suspect that no matter what we do and no matter how bad it is, the world is going to just go on spinning around the sun as it always has.  It might take hundreds of thousands of years for our garbage to get cleaned up but it will and life will go on without us.

Answer 2

We belong!

We fail sometimes at being good stewards of such a wonderful place!

Answer 3

We have no influence over the universe at this point, and eventually as our technology gets advanced enough (if we don't blow our selves up) we should be able to control the detrimental effects on our environment.  We're definitely not the best of caretakers at the present time though.

Answer 4

That's true.

The world will repair itself if no people are around and eventually cover all traces we were ever here. But I disagree with global warming. Yes, our contribution to it is a fact but not the only factor. The world goes through it's own phases, heating. cooling, shifting, nothing to do with the wrath of god. If you consider us to be gardeners here then we haven't respected the world as we should. Our inventions have been far from helpful to the earth and ultimately unhelpful to ourselves. As we speak tropical forests are being raped for various reasons, from real estate to planting soya. Can't blame the end user you have to place the blame squarely on all those who have allowed it to happen over the decades. Big business with no responsibility to the environment is what we are seeing, everywhere and has been ongoing for decades. The environment is starting to pay the price now.

Answer 5

we are but our machines and stuff maybe not. but what fun would that be, rotting away the planet is fun, malls, cars, ac, its worth it. nothing last forever even us the animals can have the earth back when we are done.  

Answer 6

Gen 1:26

26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Gen 1:28

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Moses 5:1

1 AND it came to pass that after I, the Lord God, had driven them out, that Adam began to till the earth, and to have dominion over all the beasts of the field, and to eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, as I the Lord had commanded him. And Eve, also, his wife, did labor with him.

Answer 7

We are part of the system and one day humans will be extinct like 99.9% of all life that has ever existed on this planet... evolution will continue just fine when we are gone. We belong to this world; this world does not belong to us.

Answer 8

We evolved on this world along with all the other lifeforms here.  We 'belong' here just as much as the next species.

All species effect each other.   The problem is that Homo Sapiens effects things way more and way faster than any other species.

However, we can not destroy the Earth.  Whatever we do the planet will still be here  Life will still be on it.  But what form that life is is dependent on how we act now.

We evolved in a certain environment.   If we change the environment faster that life, including us, can adapt then things are going to go very badly for the current life on the planet, including us.

We need to accept that we belong to this world and this world belongs to us.  If we mess it up no one is going to come and fix it and there is no other world we can move to.

Maybe human pollutants are not significantly affecting the Earth, the majority of scientists would argue otherwise, but can we afford to take the chance?

Answer 9

Well, yes and no. This world is a platform for our spiritual education and it is a medium for those spirits who have the power to create and assist the living beings in evolving physically and spiritually. Yes, we as people have been useing up the natural resources and poluteing the planet. But in time we will learn to heal it. Namaste

Answer 10

I think the most important words in your hypothesis are, "as if we are a virus".  Are viruses a part of the world?  They were around before us and will likely be around long after we've moved on.  The idea that our effect on the environment is different than that of any other life form is arrogant.  The only difference is that we can contemplate it, and therefore alter our impact at will.

The introduction of a "non-native" species always disturbs the equilibrium.  A species with no local predators thrives and reproduces until it outstrips its food supply, then crashes from starvation, allowing the surviving species to re-establish themselves.  Eventually, an equilibrium is reached and the population spikes are minimized.

Right now, we are heading for a population spike.  When our resources are overwhelmed by our numbers, there will be a large die-off of some kind (which will be horrible for us, of course), but that will allow the planet to establish a new equilibrim with whatever species still survive.  It's a perfectly natural process.

Answer 11

We're as much a part of the "system" as anything.  Our actions are actually mechanical in nature, just a complex network of neurons.  All that is, is bound by natural laws.

Why is one distribution of atoms worse than another, ultimately?