Humans are causing the extinction of many species and the destruction of the environment at an alarming rate. This seems to be a result of our greed and our intellegence. At some point the environment will no longer be able sustain human and many other forms of life. Human intellegence is a survival strategy that will ultimately fail.
2006-12-20 11:11:44 · 12 answers · asked by Savetheworld 1 in Environment
Yes - the longer I'm alive the more I'm convinced this true. The capacity to alter the environment did not come with the emotional maturity to do it wisely. I watch governments and companies make the same mistakes WITHIN MY OWN LIFETIME. If we cannot learn from our mistakes from within one generation how are we going to learn over several generations where history and facts are distorted?
2006-12-20 11:15:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the world is to survive we are going to have to make drastic changes to the way we impact on it, and we will have to accept that it will not be the sort of place we have now. Somehow we are going to have to control and even reduce the population to a sustainable level. Communism has been discredited for many reasons but perhaps the worst was it's creation of mediocrity. Capitalism is not working because it's only focus is on profit with very little regard for the consequences of it's actions.
Another major problem is the fact that politicians only operate in the short term with either their own egos or the dogma of their own party's interests of concern.
Whether human inteligence will fail as a survival strategy is something only time will tell, but keep your fingers crossed, it may take time and it might happen. Happy Christmas.
2006-12-20 11:46:40 · answer #2 · answered by Ted T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all... I do not think that there is such thing as an "evolutionary strategy". But if there was such a thing and it failed, it would be due to "lack" of intelligence.
It's a bit egotistical to think that humans are "causing" extinction. Species have been going extinct for millions of years without our help (did we kill the dinosaurs?). That is the nature of evolution: those that can evolve and adapt to a changing environment survive. Those that can't, go extinct.
Human intelligence is already having an impact on evolution. Right now, it allows weaker beings to survive in an environment where they would have died otherwise. In the future, we will be able to control the evolutionary process such that none of those weaker beings will ever be produced (or simply minimized).
2006-12-20 11:19:02 · answer #3 · answered by TG 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The thing is that humans ,or us, are not destroying the environment because of our intelligence .... the destruction we see is hind side , no one planed to destroy or damage where we live , the happening, is the by product of the efforts of intelligence to improve our standard of living , and now we see the consequences , but also you can not omit the over population explosion , we are at a point that we are multiplying like rabbits, in the next ten years we are going to sum to the 7billion range , soon we will be over populated , just because of our intelligence!
2006-12-20 11:29:43 · answer #4 · answered by young old man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truly intelligent people like you and me are aware of that problem and want to do something about it. It's the marginally functional ones like George W. Bush causing the problem, plundering the planet without any concern for the future. As the saying goes, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." The world is full of idiots who know enough to harm the planet but not enough to realize their actions have consequences. Yes, the so-called "intelligence" that led us to build cities is a big part of the problem, but now that we're faced with it, the solution is to allow REAL intelligence to prevail. Sadly, our leaders don't even know what that is, but maybe we can do something about that in the next election. Obama strikes me as exceptionally intelligent for a politician. Maybe if he runs in 2008 we'll have a chance.
2006-12-21 02:14:08 · answer #5 · answered by ConcernedCitizen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too late. We're doomed. Unless we radically change the way we think and do things then we have at best about 100 years left. The news media will never tell you that but all the indicators are that the environment will not sustain life much longer. Too bad. We coulda' been contenders.
2006-12-20 11:34:11 · answer #6 · answered by kevpet2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless humans are able to adapt to the new environment, which seems quite unlikely given the fact that it takes thousands of years for evolutionary changes to take hold.
2006-12-20 11:15:17 · answer #7 · answered by jaba44 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
naw, intelligence is too much fun, WE NEED MORE INTELLIGENCE LOL, THEN MORE FUN! Giant Brain Vein throbbing Heads like on original Star Trek (70's), I think that question would be more appropriately answered by Mr. Spock, I will refer the question to him, Bones gripes too much!
BUSH is an excellent example of the Danger of Lack of Intelligence! LOL
2006-12-20 11:18:31 · answer #8 · answered by Courageous Capt. Cat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not so sure of that. We are certainly causing damage, but I don't think it's too late to stop it. See, the problem is not so much our high intelligence, but our precise level of intelligence; we're smart enough to build dangerous technology, but we're not quite smart enough to be careful with it...at least not so far.
2006-12-20 11:14:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The culprit is stupidity, not intelligence.
To damage the environment that keeps us alive is not at all a result of our intelligence. It is a result of our collective stupidity, disorganization and lack of sound leadership.
2006-12-20 11:51:31 · answer #10 · answered by PragmaticAlien 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋