Is nature clever enough to stop us destroying her?

Question

If we continue to to desecrate our ecosystem and nature is smarter than we believe (not hard to believe, given nature being er, nature and what it's achieved) what's to stop it evolving some kind of aggressive mechanism such as a killer virus to wipe humanity out, just as our own body's immune system would do if threatened to such a degree?

Answer 1

this is a very intersesting question. the answer is fairly simple though. killer viruses have came, and we have destroyed them, like small pox and things like that. nature has tried, but we have succeeded.

make it a good day.

Answer 2

I don't think nature itself would destroy us as a reaction to human actions.  Nature, as a system, isn't coherent enough to evolve and react as one entity.  I take issue with statements that we will destroy nature, too.  We can certainly make life difficult for humans, ruin habitats, drive species to extinction, but nature will prevail.  Even if we scoured the surface of the earth in a nuclear war, life would remain somewhere, and it would grow and adapt.  Natural processes would continue - moutnains would form, and others would erode away.  Life would continue to evolve, filling the vacant niches.  Earth would be very different than the one we know, but nature would prevail.

I think that if humans remain environmentally ignorant, then we will become a self-correcting problem.  Nature is in a delicate balance, and if we tip it much further, we could wind up without enough food or a toxic environment.  It probably wouldn't wipe us out as a species, but our numbers would be significantly reduced, giving nature enough breathing room to repair the damage that we've done.