Anyone good at science?

Question

If people are as much a part of the environment as trees and birds, are their actions just another natural process?

Answer 1

I think the issue lies in the scale and balance of things. In a natural system, things like trees, birds and animals are in balance. There are predators to take care of small increases in herbivore's population fluctuations; natural events such as wildfires regularly 'clean' a forest of dead and dying trees and vegetation...etc. etc.

The problem which we face at the moment is that humans are out of whack with Nature. We've managed to achieve plague proportions by lengthening our "natural" lifespan of 40 to 50 years to well over 70 through medicine and technology, as well as it now being possible to raise a tribe of younguns with no worries about predation.

Then there's the whole materialistic lifestyle we've all grown accustomed to - which also creates a whole raft of unnatural problems for every single being extant in the Natural world (pollution, resource depletion, ecosystem destruction in pursuit of hamburgers, climate change to name just a few)...

In short, the answer to your question is "no" because we are no longer attuned to or live with the natural processes of our planet. A population of about 1 /20th of that which is alive today may be able to live in a synchronistic way with the planet - our current numbers are anything but harmonious!!!

Hope this helps...it is only a very brief description of a huge and complex issue!

Love and Light,


Jarrah

Answer 2

Just a semantic issue. Cancer is a natural process.

Comparing the human race to cancer may or may not be fair.

If the actions of the human race ultimately degrade the condition of life on earth to a significant and regrettable degree, I think there's no reason not to make that comparison.

What matters is the consequence.

Answer 3

When you make a distinction between natural and unnatural, what could possibly be unnatural but human actions and/or creations? In other words, if ANYTHING is unnatural, then that thing is borne of human hands.