We humans can't seem to even live properly on land. What do you think?

Question

About water, air, space for a long period of time like for the rest of our life. Anywhere else?

Answer 1

So many of the people professing to be ecologists forget one SIMPLE fact. The human specie is PART of the ecology of this planet. At some point we will go extinct just as others have in the past and more will in the future.

I often wonder. Do you suppose that 70 million years ago the small dinosaurs were complaining about the huge piles of poop left by the big dinosaurs and how that stench was poisoning the air to such an extent as to render the planet uninhabitable.

Read about extinctions, they have been going on since the planet was formed and will continue after the last human draws his/her final breath.

Ecological systems have a way of regulating themselves and Earth is no exception.

Answer 2

Define "properly." Many people live on land (most, actually) and think they are doing fine. There really wasn't any perceived problem until some decades after the automobile had been very popular. However, automotive transportation is a drug that no one will be getting humans to quit cold turkey. Rather, politicians are going to try to make automobiles less of an impact on land, etc. But you should notice that EVERY sci-fi movie has some futuristic, "clean" transportation. NO ONE is sci-fi movies walks or bikes unless it's a distopia after the economic crash. Thus, I mean it when I say that humans aren't going to quit automobiles cold turkey unless they are forced to.
The rest of what us humans do is actually innocuous. There have always been trash dumps, there has always been fire smoke. (In fact, So Cal here was called by the "natural" Indians "Land of 10,000 smokes" because even their "natural" campfires backed up against the San Bernardino and Little San Bernardino Mountains and left a haze over the sky in summer.

Answer 3

There are no problems that can't be solved with technology. The atmosphere could be cleaned up in 5 years if every large city installed electrostatic air purifiers. There IS no water shortage... four fifths of the earth's surface is covered with water. All that needs to be done is to purify it and distribute it where needed. Global warming? If our global warming is caused by burning fossil fuels, why are the polar ice caps on MARS also melting? Answer: The sun is burning hotter, now... This will eventually cease, and temperatures will decline.

Right now, you CAN'T live anywhere else. Earth is all we have. If you're truly concerned, study science, get an engineering or technical degree, and begin to solve those problems you're currently complaining about. Become part of the solution.

Answer 4

people are hopelessly ignorant and greedy and because of this we are trashing the most important thing on the planet ....our enviroment


were running up a tab and sooner then later it will be time to pay the bill


we talk about colonizing another planet but the reallity is this is near impossible

they tried with biospehere 1 and 2 to create a enclosed self sustaining enviroment and both failed misserably

so when we use up all of lifes resources we ... well.......we die


end story

Answer 5

Properly?
What are you talking about?
Like when locusts overrun areas in Texas and Africa?
Or when toads take over an area?
Or when rabbits or mice or rats over populate an area?
Or when moths destroy their own habitat so that the plants they need for life are destroyed?
Or when certain beetles destroy the trees that they live on and breed in?
Try picking up a book and stop listening to your air head friends.
tc

Answer 6

The 4th dimension? I understand that we've completely crapped on our planet but where else woud we live other than air, water or land?

Answer 7

I'm living just fine here on earth. Thanks for asking though.

If you feel some guilt or shame over what you are doing then that would appear to be a problem for you. Your "we" is just a little bit too inclusive.