2006-07-08 13:48:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
We are living in the MTV world. Most people get their information from TV and TV is pretty much a fact free zone. TV is about entertainment and it is a big downer to be told your SUV is making a mess of the world for your kids so that is a message that doesn't make it on TV. So you have a nation were the majority of people simply don't know what is happening around them.
Here is a question you can ask: Does the sun orbit the earth or is it the other way around? Less than half of Americans can answer that question. If people don't know that how could you expect them to understand something complex like the damage we are doing to the ecosystem?
2006-07-08 14:08:47 · answer #1 · answered by Engineer 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We think we are superior to all the other living things on Earth because we are more intelligent than them. That, in turn, in our minds, gives us the right to destroy them. Just to prove the point, that's why Hitler killed so many Jews. He believed that his race was superior to all others and that the others didn't deserve to live. We need wood for our homes because we are superior to the animals and can't live like them. We have to build our own homes and be different rather than use the system that has worked for every other species that exists for the past 6000+ years (or if you believe in evolution, 15,000,000,000 years).
Ever think about the fact that there are never wars between animals? They live with nature. We use nature as parts to build our own reality which causes us to fight over materials such as oil. Behold the power of the opposable thumb. We can use it to destroy the homes of millions of animals so that we can have our own when those homes work for EVERY other species on Earth.
Sorry I'm kinda rambling here btw, I'm a little tired...
2006-07-08 14:04:53 · answer #2 · answered by agfreak90 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
possibly because humans have been around for a long long time destroying away and life has just continued to get better and better for the average human
it seems that by destroying much of what is "natural" we make things better for humans (who in this context I guess, are un-natural even though all the other animals are "natural")
perhaps thats why we do it, and perhaps thats why many people remain blatantly ignorant of it
2006-07-08 14:14:26 · answer #3 · answered by enginerd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think that that we are ignorant of the fact. Our species understands the actions and the destruction that it causes.
We just have not found a way for civilization to survive and coexist in peace and harmony with each other and the earth.
We can describe the destruction and problems that we cause with many explicits, such as need, greed, control.
Their is an unlimited amount of reasons and excuses but not one common denominator for a solution.
Unfortunately their is no solution in sight from today's world leaders.
2006-07-08 15:11:07 · answer #4 · answered by keng42 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not only humans. Animals do that too. We just do it better because we have technology. Animals have to do it with only over population as their tool. Except maybe beavers, who can really damage a forest near their homes, cutting trees all the time. But they just use their teeth, not chain saws. And their dams are smaller than Hoover dam. So that is OK, right?
2006-07-08 17:03:43 · answer #5 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because humans are blatantly ignorant of anything other than the most 'pressing' issues they face everyday, things like: maxxed-out credit cards; $3.00-a-gallon fuel for our $60,000.00 SUVs; Britney Spears' love life; Jacko's pedophilia; 'low prices - everyday' at WalMart on junk we don't even need; professional landscaping for our $350,000 homes; and the latest rankings of our favorite football teams. -RKO-
2006-07-08 14:56:51 · answer #6 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The world is not perfect, humans fought humans, animals fought animals to survive. Plague against nature. The chain reactions happens to maintain survival and willing to do anything. "Survival is the best" is the quote.
2006-07-09 02:12:21 · answer #7 · answered by Eve W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it makes you feel any better. Animals that are dominant in a certain region do the same thing. Maybe it's built into us.
2006-07-08 13:53:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's greed. If we forget history, we're doomed to repeat it, and boy have we forgotten it. Look at our past. Some things never change.
2006-07-08 13:52:04 · answer #9 · answered by Stephie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are a spread of branches/sects of Satanism. they are not precisely an organised faith as such and ought to have differing rites and theological evaluations from crew to crew or sect to sect. purely as Atheists ought to have differing evaluations among one yet another.
2016-11-06 01:54:20 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋