do you think we are like the final stage or some kind of final evolutionary period were we finish off a dying planet? The desert is growing and the forest is dissapearing, and amphibians and fish are going exstinct
2006-12-14 19:24:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Actually you bring up a very good point about how a species interacts with their environment and the reaction that the environment has to their actions. I think its a bit oversimplified to say that we're "germs" but I get the gist of your point.
All species (humans being no exception) exhibit "boom and bust" growth cycles based on the way they interact with their environment and the way their environment impacts their existence. Humans are considered "generalist" species - which means that we tend to adapt to a variety of conditions and generally tend to not become threatened before other species are threatened.
However even generalist species can still cause their own demise and eventually human growth unless checked will overstep the world's capacity to support our population even in the light of conservation and preservation tactics.
The good news? We're not going to "destroy" the planet. We may alter the habitat to where it will no longer support our own species or many other species.. however Darwinism is a great and powerful thing - there will be many species that are able to exploit the niches we leave behind.
Such is the way of the world - its fantastically different than it was millions of years ago.. millions of years from now it will be much different than it is now.
2006-12-14 19:52:44 · answer #1 · answered by Drew 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Every new specie that arrives on this planet produces waste, we just usually don't look at it that way. The oxygen revolution was really all waste of plants. We evolved to use that waste. I think that eventually there will be new species to help get rid of ours. Every normal species has a population that grows and shrinks on a sine wave. Humans are the only ones that don't function on this wave -yet. So far we've been reproducing without control, so that it looks like a straight line. However, every sine wave looks like a straight increasing line at some point. I think eventually our population will reach its maximum and decrease. It will probably be when the world is so overpopulated we can hardly breathe, but I bet it will happen.
2006-12-14 19:36:48 · answer #2 · answered by onanist13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
man has come a long way in a very short time expressly in the twentieth century.
natural evolution took time and when inventions were discovered there wasn't such a large population or demand for such things until they were well known. this took time because communication wasn't so advanced. nature took its course and if there was a drought in Africa we didn't hear about it in America until nature had taken its full course...yeah?
things are so advanced these days. communication is instantaneous therefore nature never has time to take any kind of natural toll on humanity. thus the over populous is in snowball mode making the species man his own worst enemy.
this explanation is sort of sparse but i'd be writing all night ...still i hope it has made a point in your assessment.
2006-12-14 19:42:31 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do u ever think that there are like tiny people running around our feet and we dont even know it b-cus they are so small and when we get itchy its really those tiny people biting at us??...yeah ...uhhh..okay..then we step on alot of those lil people. and if u could only catch one u'd be so famous!! okay this is getting pretty dumb ..i'm killing it...lol
2006-12-14 20:01:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG PLAN3T HAX0RZ
2006-12-14 19:27:49 · answer #5 · answered by Dan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, good grief.
2006-12-14 19:26:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
im sure your a germ.
2006-12-14 21:03:53 · answer #7 · answered by BUSHIDO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋