What's the BEST way 2 describe HUMANITY?

Question

A virus perhaps.....

We breed at a huge rate, devour all the planet's natural resources and destroy it in the process

You know, if living conditions in the rest of the world improved, so there was no need for 10 kids per family and ppl in the East stopped breeding like there was no tomorrow, then maybe we will give the planet a chance of a future???

Answer 1

The biggest mistake mother nature ever made.

Answer 2

too complex to describe with a word or a sentence. we are our own worst enemies but on the other hand there is no-one and nothing else like us. at the same time that we are selfish we are generous, altruistic, intelligent, funny, and probably a huge anomaly in the universe. it is not enough to say we are warlike - ants wage war, so do some other species; chimpanzees also murder; the 'natural order' is actually reducible to the phrase: EAT OR BE EATEN - what can be more selfish than that?

certainly we have always had the creeps, the wastrels, the insane. but when you stack them up against what the rest of us have accomplished you will see that we as a species are much, much better than we tend to think when something gets us down.

nebuchadnezzar
homer
praxiteles
caesar
augustus
jesus
chinese emperors
aztecs
the inca
jean, duc de berry
abbot suger
alchemists
columbus
palestrina
bach
beethoven
brahms
mozart
wagner
schoenberg
thomas tallis
van leeuwenhoek
semmelweiss
koch
newton
copernicus
einstein
shakespeare
haydn
handel
van eyck
the limbourg brothers
pollaioulo
leonardo
michaelangelo
riemenschneider
holbein
watteau
turner
picasso
matisse
riopelle
pt barnum
harold lloyd
aaron spelling....
the list IS endless. don't try to tell me - or yourself - that the equation of all of those who have contributed to the advancement, enlightenment, understanding and/or amusement of our species falls down against those of us who have been criminals, insane, etc. we are still in the moment - still evolving, and no matter how stupid or ridiculous or outright bad some of us are, the good will always outweigh the bad, for the simple reason that there are more of us - the good - versus them.

as for the other parts of your question, let's not be denigrating when discussing attributes such as "breeding". it is true that there are many, many problems. some seem insurmountable. some will require discipline and a hard focus on the job at hand in order to get done some of the tasks we never used to think about.
but we are recycling; we are thinking about - and, more importantly, talking about - some of these very real and urgent problems. when we begin to think and talk about anything, we usually end up doing something. i think that we are now at a point where, with the persistence of media and the global reach of the internet, more of us are exposed to questions about our future, more of us are thinking about it, and more of us will contribute meaningful suggestions to the world-wide dialogue. (well, perhaps we are not just yet at that point, but we will get there).
in the meantime, we are entitled to spend a bit of time in pointless entertainment such as 'what's up with tomkat's baby' or 'do you think these orange-yellow-and-green polkadot tights will go with my purple and puce jumper?'

Answer 3

The best way to describe humanity is how you discipline yourself as an individual and what are the good deeds you contribute to our environment.

Answer 4

look in the dictionary...

and i think the words you really want to know is Family Planning and Conservation.

Humanity doesn't have anything to do with it, because humanity is another word for humankind.

Answer 5

please dont blame the east, it is the west that creates the pollution, and uses most of natural resources. and it is only the west that has the control to stop it,

Answer 6

It depends

Answer 7

Warlike, selfish, hateful & greedy.....enough said?

Answer 8

a waste of ammo

Answer 9

a virus....with legs and arms

Answer 10

How the hell do i no ? I m only human ...