So far we know we are alone in this universe then also why we are desparate to extinct our kind & planet ?

Question

just thinking ..

Answer 1

Our self-destructive behavior is not a desire. It's simply not intuitive for people in modern society to protect the environment. We are detached from our environment far more than if we were the agrarian societies from the past, so we do not see the damage we do. I think for most of humanity, they simply cannot visualize the destruction they cause.

Of course, with our current population, we can't go back to simple farming because most of us would die of starvation, so we have to be smarter and think of new ways to sustain ourselves and our world. It's a much more difficult problem than we've had to face in the past.

Are you somehow relating this to the fact that we have not found extra terrestrial intelligence?

Answer 2

I take exception to this statement. I don't think we're "desperate to extinct ourselves and this planet" at all. This implies a conscious effort at destruction. If we reallyw anted to destroy ourselves, we'd have had a nuclear war already. 60 years on, and there has yet to be another nuclear bomb dropped in anger since H & N in Japan.

While clearly we have a lot of work to do in some regards, we've made leaps and bounds of progress in just the past 100 years. Conservation is a growing movement across the planet, which includes environmental awareness issues, and in a lot of places, the environment is being protected a lot better now than it was even 50 years ago. Look at the Hudson River if you need an example. A lot of the problem is simply awareness of the damage we can cause. Awareness is growing and so is the desire to protect what we have.

So, no, I don't subscribe to the doom and gloom your statement implies.

Answer 3

Ah, the eagle was felled with an arrow feathered with one of its own plumes. We often provide the means of our own destruction. It is a mindless, short-sighted world. The future is spoken of only as a political rallying point, not because those in power have the slightest intent of protecting the world.
The mindset is "At least our end of the ship is not sinking."

Answer 4

I wouldn't say we WANT to kill off all life here...but a lot of stupid people could do just that. It's been said that when they created the first atomic bomb that "they took the apocalypse out of the hands of God and put it into the hands of man".
Then again, there ARE certain Middle easterners who actually seem to WANT to bring on the apocalypse, huh?

Answer 5

We don't "know" that we are alone in the Universe. Two of the above answers are very good....

Answer 6

The fate of this world is in our hands....

Answer 7

all dosent see in same way, resources are limited for all.