Are humans too advanced for their own good?

Question

I believe money has been too powerful throughout history. Money and the nature of greed does that to humans. We've 'evolved' so much that we are destroying Planet Earth. It is quite evident in the climate change, overfishing, pollution, wildlife destruction, etc.. that it is difficult to see Earth and humans lasting any longer.

I don't think there are going to any drastic changes anytime soon.

What's your opinions on this?

Answer 1

My opinion is that every generation thinks their problems are the worst the world has ever seen, but they are wrong. Pollution is not the biggest problem in the world, but Al Gore wants you to think it is because he thinks it is. In the 1960's the threat of nuclear war was the worst problem. I certainly think all out nuclear world war would be way worse than global warming. But we managed not to have such a war. We will get through the current problems too. Personally, I think over population is the biggest problem. The Earth is not infinite and can't support an infinite number of people. The only question is how many is too many. Is another 5 billion too many or will we be OK with a trillion more? I don't know, but there is an upper limit somewhere.

Answer 2

Money has got nothing to do with that at all __ ( a.) in what you call ,""We've 'evolved' so much that
we are destroying Planet Earth.""


WE , and almost all other species, is like this. We horde !! Whether we need it or not , we horde. Say , the
leopard staches ,, for no good reason.

OR you can say that money has everything to do with it , __ (b.) in that money facilitates INFRASTRUCTURE
(financial , economic , logistics)
Where if you fail to "economically glue" the individuals together ,, you get Angkor Wat , on a one-way street.

Where if your infrastructure is low quality you get the Chinese and other civilizations whose calendar
clocks further than the West's , but is quite redundant. I am a Chinese ,, and the "identity and cultural" costs

we willingly pay goes a one-way street and make for economic "garbage" (baggage ,, as some analyst would call it).

We can also look at the way that no other civilization even conceptualised a simple , basic retail "sales transaction" in act of buying a tube of toothpaste ,say , from the sundry. Imagine IF everything you bought today

(utilities water , electricity , gas) (Panadol , medicines , services of the doctor) (Milo , coffee) (taxi ride)

IS fashioned after the way handicrafts were sold on the roadsides throughout Asia !! (barter traded) (imagine if u got sick , and the cure is bartered.) (imagine if there's an emergency , and safty is barter traded.) (AND isn't

looting what we do in emergencies?) There shall be no product safety and no code of conduct (protocol and liabilities).

To make this ground level "law" to carry integrity ,, the West uses institutional standards (BS , FDA , CODEXes ,

MIL , ASTM (owns the IEEE and ISTA) , MIL , JIS , DIN) (ISO is quite redundant "junk" , but materially based on

the American ASTM , which is free of charge , world wide.) ( The ASTM is applicable worldwide because

__ ports and national institutes and AUTHORITIES adopt this. (Therefore , can be said loosely that ASTM is Law
offshore of America !! And , because the engineering and product manufacturing is secure (tracable and

documented) at source , you can bring it down to sundry level , WITH insurance. This facilitates the Law.


"" evident in the climate change, overfishing, pollution, wildlife destruction, etc "" is due to our success in civilizational infrastructure.

.. biologically ,, Humans are barbarians (we are a survival machine , just like any animal.) Our upper brain (cortex) is controled by the reptile body (lower brain). .. genetically , we are a chimpanzee .. physiologically we look closer to the rhesus. .. physiological evolutionaryly we are a strange fish.

The problem you see and feel is due largely to "overpopulation" where before in the 1970's scientists raised the alarm at 1 : 300 000 human , bio-mass tonne. At now , we are at 1 : 150 000 , and watching out for doom , still which we simply cannot tell if we are yet riding into problems of any identifiable nature. Re-cycling and

sustainability is only politically correct and a marketing tool ,, and definitely useless because systems are dissipative (physics , thermodynamics)(The kind of Hawkings and Prigogine).

"Organic" goods is what a stronger currency demands and gets ,, constituting "food safety" FDA , CoDEX. Else it's

a way to fool the buyer to pay more for a substandard product or produce !! Legally.

Arguably , re-cycling , sustainability and organic is a form of civilizational retrogration (in here , I anger many prople.)

The better , and probably the only available answer is with the US government. Open up the space above our heads , go to space.

The planet will wind down by itself when the core cools. Everything on it (water and air ) just blows away and we get a Mars equivalent. There is a "used by" date for a planet. Man cannot destroy the planet. We can destroy only the entire human population and some other animal will inherit it.

Answer 3

Advanced? Man advanced? i see the same basic qualities in man since the beginning of the earth. He might have found new ways in dealing with things and to do things, but man is still as sinful as ever in need of a Saviour. Yes, no drastic changes now....ever...

Answer 4

No, suppose that they are not enough advanced else they would not make war which is the worse solution and try to extinguish conflicts by communicating.
They would also try to think how to avoid revisable catastrophes as
ozone hole pollution