From what I hear, oceanic dead zones are expanding, overfishing is causing all sorts of messed up things with the food chains, overfarming has stripped the soil of the precious minerals needed for us to grow healthy food, so many billions of mouths to feed.
All those billions of years just for us to go out like this. What a waste, right?
2006-12-23 12:27:05 · 26 answers · asked by Atlas 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course it disturbs me. As a humanist, I also believe that we should do our best to mend our ways and help heal this planet. A couple simple steps would be to stop driving cars for non-emergency uses, and stop having more than two children.
The really disturbing thought is that many religious people are not disturbed, but overjoyed with the destruction of this planet.
2006-12-23 12:31:32 · answer #1 · answered by Michael 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Every species on earth thinks it's the most important (or acts that way, since they can't all think). Truth is, none of them is, and we all go extinct. When we die out, life will go on, though it's unlikely ever to take an intelligent form again (THAT was a bizarre one-off!). Cockroaches will scuttle around our ruins for a few millennia. Bacteria will continue to keep the ecosystem rolling along and insects will keep the large animals under control. Yes, it will be a shame, considering what our species is capable of, if we are responsible for destroying ourselves just as we are for so many other species (and chances are, we will destroy ourselves). But we would have died out anyway eventually, and ultimately, we're the only ones who think we are important. To alligators, vultures, maggots and bacteria, we're just lunch.
2006-12-23 12:36:56 · answer #2 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wrong, maybe your world is on the brink of collapse, but mine is just fine. You are being cynically selective in your examples. If you understood the natural world you would know that nothing is wasted.
2006-12-23 12:36:26 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The world is not on the brink of collapse. Humanity is on the brink of dying out. The world will be fine without us.
What a waste? Matter of opinion.
2006-12-23 12:37:54 · answer #4 · answered by Mark Porter 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It sure as hell does. We did not evolve from nothing though.
If you were to believe that the Earth (Urantia) was a gift from God, wouldn't it be so much worse? What we've done to the world is like spitting in God's eye.
2006-12-23 12:34:27 · answer #5 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
GO and read any newspaper from a 100 years ago. It will remarkably sound just like TODAY'S News!!!
In another words, BAD NEWS SELLS!!! Even if it biased, distorted, or by omission!
It's an OLD GAME perpretrated by journalism, and frankly, you FELL FOR IT!!! Ignore most of what the papers say and go back to your life.... People need you.
2006-12-23 12:45:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is a waste. The earth did exist before humans, and it likely will after we are gone. Humans are a species pushing themselves toward extinction--
overpopulation leads to disease, war, starvation, depletion of resources.... Other animals have gone the way of the dodo, and we are doing it to ourselves.
2006-12-23 12:33:34 · answer #7 · answered by from HJ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, creation must come from a higher source - God - who is infinite and self-existing.
Of course, evolution could have been a mechanism by which He brought about life on earth.
All those problems listed are due to man's sin and greed. They are not necessary to a prosperous economy.
But I believe that a tremendous correction is soon to take place that will basically right most of the wrongs present before we destroy ourselves.
It is God's way to save in the nick of time.
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2006-12-23 12:31:44 · answer #8 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The world itself has survived many catastrophic changes and will survive this one as well.
Just as has happened in the past, a lot of species won't survive that change, and humans may be among them.
2006-12-23 12:31:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who has ever said that anything evolved from nothing? I have only seen Creationists use this and similar lies and distortions as strawmen for their ignorant and dishonest claims.
In any case, yes it is a shame that we have the power to destroy ourselves and maybe not the intelligence to stop it.
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Persepho... –
Have you been reading Nietzsche? You sound just like Zarathustra.
2006-12-23 12:31:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋