do you reckon we humans are parasites on mother earths skin?

Answer 1

no of course not more like a species out of control this is called a plague

Natures Law of Harmony or Equilibrium,

in Nature everybody is welcome ,but nothing is permitted to live in excess.
if it happens it is considered a plague
and nature responds with diseases or preditors

there has to be an equilibrium to have harmony

then life is healthy and peace full

ancient civilizations knew this ,and so do primative tribes in the Amazon
they carefully limit their numbers in various manners ,the Olmecs women are Yams to control their birth rate ,
the Aztec sacrified the excess children to the gods
the tribes in the Amazon have strange sexual rite that are only a few times a year .

the environment of any specie can only supply so much food for that specie.

foxes have more cubs when there is an excess of rabbits
and when there is little they only have a couple
wild dogs do the same ,Lions ,hyenas ,tigers ,bears etc.
and many more species do as well

there are two times in a species existance when the danger of extinction is the greatest ,when there are too little and when there are too much ,because sometimes Natures balancing forces do not have brakes ,and the disease or predoitor ,send to restore the balance can wipe some specie out.

We Humans tend to forget that we belong to the same system and are subject to the same laws

and now we see Natural disasters ,diseases,wars earthquakes ,tsunamis,global warming etc ,and maybe this is Nature trying to pull us down a peg or two.

world`population has doubled in the last 50 years
each year farmers have to grow food for 70 million more people ,and the strain is beginning to show

our fresh water suppplies are running low
agriculture is overpumping deep carbon aquifiers,which do not fill up again and so causing sometimes sinkholes that are miles deep

and after the irrigation runs out ,a dessert is the result
grass lands are overgrazed also becoming desserts ,farmers now turn to highly erodable lands to try and meet the increasing demands of the market.
expanding populations deforrest lands for habitation and farming
tar roads and concrete are being exchanged for bio mass ,

which we need to capture carbon ,leave us oxigen ,produce rain ,keep the rivers running and control temperature globally ,
forrests absorb the heat of the day and heat up the cold nights and stop us from freezing,when they release the heat.

looking from space we must seem like a plague that is spreading over the planet
and something has gotta give

polpulation growth now ,is directly relevant to our overall health and the health of the Environment
and maybe the survival of our specie

Answer 2

Of course we are, a parasite defined is...."An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host. " While you can argue the earth is not an "organism" we certainly grown & feed off of it, w/o contributing anything to Earth's survival. You can also argue that so are all living creatures, but thats not true. "Animals" crap in the woods, and die in the woods and rot, both return their energy and nutrients back into the soil, as does a blade of grass. What do humans do? We flush our waste down a metal pipe into another bowl w/ a ton of chemicals, and try to get clean water back out. When we die, we pump our bodies full of preservaties, put us in a box, and bury us protected from the soil, deep in a hole...its almost like we want to try and avoid returning our bodies to the earth,and keep it all for ourselves...And as for 'green' people who try to clean up pollution, fixing what you already broke (getting back to zero pollution) isn't the same as doing something good when starting from zero pollution...so yeah, people are parasites...sucks don't it?

Answer 3

If they are the are the last to become so and all other life forms were parasites first!

Since life came from the primordial soup on earth the better argument is that humans are earth's children!!!

Answer 4

I, too, LOVE timber, and am fairly irritated that there is such an far extra desirable than direct mail, yet I do all i will to cut back, reuse, and recycle wood, paper, plastic, glass, and different such products regularly thrown away in our cutting-part day society. on the different hand, whether, anthropomorphizing "mom Earth" is comparable to putting "her" on a pedestal as being equivalent to God, and that i'm certainly no longer mushy with that. yet I even have complete self belief in Jehovah God's promise, discovered at Revelation 11:18, which reminds us that he will shelter this situation . . . . very quickly. Rev 11:18 - (NIV) - "The countries have been offended, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the lifeless, and for worthwhile your servants the prophets and Your people who revere your call, the two great and small— and for DESTROYING people who break THE EARTH."

Answer 5

No - "mother" earth is neither a person nor a mother and the planet itself is not a living entity. we're no more of a parasite than a blade of grass which gets nourishment from soil.

Answer 6

NO! We do however need to respect her more and be more careful with her.