What good have humans done for our planet earth!?

Answer 1

Your question is wrong.
You should ask what bad have humans done for our planet earth

Answer 2

The simple answer is nothing, but then planet earth didn't need us to do anything for it anyway. How could we have possibly improved upon something that has taken billions of years to evolve? It worked perfectly well without us and will work just as well once we're gone.
Animal species don't tend to do good things for the habitat they live in, but humans have taken that one stage further and we actively destroy other animals habitats for our own material gain.

As has been said even the most steadfast environmentallist still damages the environment and creates polution.

However if the human population was a lot smaller our impact on the planet would probabaly be sustainable. It's because the population is continually increasing to a point where the planet is no longer big enough that all the problems arise.

You could ask the same question of any animal. After all, what have lions done for the earth? The biggest difference between us and other animals is that they tend to maintain the staus quo, not through choice though. They adapt to their environment in order to survice. Humans adapt the environment to suit themselves and to support an increasing population.

Answer 3

In the first place do not treat the Earth as a personality - it is not. The Earth and it's ecosystems are very adaptable and can recover easily from any species upon it. It is pure arrogance to think we are so powerful so as to be able to really affect the Earth for any real length of time.

As for good we have done... the Earth does not recognize good and bad... it adapts, compensates or recreates regarding all conditions (including the human condition)

You could very well ask the same question about hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes. Maybe, similar to these destructive forces, our best benefit is the clean swath we leave for new beginnings when all is said and done.

Just a thought

Answer 4

humans have made their own lives more fullfilling and exiting, using more of their intellectual capacities lifting at least half a billion human beings outside material deprivation. As for the 5.5 billion humans suffering from poverty, humans have done nothing, so the balance isn't even very good for making our own lives very good.

As for the planet earth, humans have led to one of the largest extinction of species (ever since the mass extinctions probably caused by an asterioid collision that killed the dinosaurs), deprivation of ground and river water resources from other species, destruction of wetlands for agriculture, destruction of forests and other natural habitats, deforestation, maritime pollution, ...

what good, well human technology theoretically can save the whole planet earth from final destruction from an asteroid collision, so there may be a positive outcome down the line, or humans may at some point migrate to other planets, leaving the Earth alone (very unlikely). Then again, human technology can completely destroy the planet before we have time to save it from an asteroid (nuclear war or drastic climate change killing even more species that we did with our own hands).

The balance is very very very negative! with only one positive thing in the future.

Answer 5

Thats an interesting question! I doubt if any humans have done any good for this planet. Maybe we should ask is how can solve the problems we have caused? It saddens me to think that the future generations have us to thank for what is going to happen. We all know the dangerous state the earth is in but we don't even acknowledge it.
Maybe we are all too caught up in every day living that we just don't see the bigger picture. Maybe it is because the worst damage we are causing will not affect us much in our lifetime so we don't really care.
We all need to wake up to what we are doing don't you think?

Answer 6

If you look closely no human has done anything good for planet earth. As humans are classed as a infestation of the planet sucking up all the resources. Even green peace create sewage and use diesel engines for there ships

Answer 7

The very act of life and evolution is a consuming dynamic.

Our very lives and the ones that preceded ours and the ones that succeed it will continue the process.

Who is to say that ultimate destruction isn't our destiny?

What is so perfect or noble about the human species that it should prevail infinitely?

We have our time, use it as we do, and then it is finished.

So what's so wrong about that?

I think we are meant to consume our resources as part of our cosmic function.

IMHO, the worst part of it is that we just can't seem to get along with each other well enough to all make the most of the time we have here.

If we could, now THAT would be a paradise worth perpetuating!

Answer 8

Planet earth is a space vehicle for living things, as our education and experience have defined living. As humans, we have cultivated earth, defined it and related it properly with other heavenly bodies. So far, humans are doing everything to keep it habitable and tolerable for his species.

Answer 9

The question really has no meaning. Nothing is 'Good' or 'Bad' for the planet. Some of our actions impact on our own comfort or even survival, but that is purely subjective and anthropocentric.

Answer 10

No a whole lot that I can think of. We are like a virus to this planet. The Hopis say that if we don't start taking care of the planet it will shake us off like fleas.

Answer 11

Well, before we cremated ourselves or put ourselves in boxes, when we died, our bodies would nourish the earth. (Ya know, our bodies become the grass, the animals eat the grass, hakuna matata, circle of life stuff.) But since then, no, I don't think we've done any "good" for the planet.