Is nature's balance trying to control our population?
2007-05-10 08:08:08 · 12 answers · asked by tHEwISE 4 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
I don't mean Nature is aware of us.
I'm not speaking of Nature as a conscience lifeform.
2007-05-10 08:19:23 · update #1
Given the information that we have now, no. Then again, lots of these problems that we're suffering from are indirectly caused by us. For example, the floods in Missouri always seem to happen during El Nino years, which have been increasing as water temperature increases, which increases as carbon levels increase, and so on.
However, as crackpot as this may sound... maybe we ARE part of a bigger system that we are completely unaware of. Think about it... when a bacteria or virus invades your system, your body's immune system attacks it. Maybe the earth has an "immune system" that we are completely unaware of, just as a disease carrying microbe is unaware of us.
Being a scientific person, I'd like to stick with my first answer. But then again, there are probably things out there that we never dreamed of. :)
2007-05-10 14:36:30 · answer #1 · answered by Mel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To say that something is "defending itself" implies at least SOME level of self-awareness, and I don't think that is an attribute of "nature." I think there are physical laws that govern our planet and the way it behaves, and the things that are happening are simply the inevitable results of the processes, both natural and man-made, that have been set in motion.
Should we fail to deal with global warming, certainly the population of human beings on the planet will be affected, as well as the populations of numerous other species. In a sense, that's natural too. It's not as though we started out to create a change in the world; it's just what happened as we learned more and more, which is part of what we do in being human.
2007-05-10 08:32:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no doubt that we have overloaded and nearly destroyed the ecosystem, and as in any species, corrections will happen. They are happening, but not like they will.
We are behaving like an ecological virus.
Whether much of the ecology will be recognizable, it will exist, and quite possibly without us if our "leaders" try to insist this problem does not exist.
Many large corporations are signing on, fortunately.
We have not yet nearly comprehended the neccessary lifestyle and population adjustments we must make to survive.
Cockroaches will, but do we want to survive as they do - all but a few dying off, and repopulating?
It won't be dull.
Lies don't change reality, and the wealthy depend on the ecology as well as the poor.
2007-05-10 08:18:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not exactly. I think we are defending ourselves against nature. I would rather live now than 1340 when the black death killed half of Europe.
But you have a point. Our growing technology and population are not in equilibrium with the environment. But I am optimistic that we can find a new and better equilibrium with our intelligence and technology.
2007-05-10 08:38:25 · answer #4 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is no. The earth has been warmer since the last ice age, and will continue to do so unless we have another ice age. This tend has been going on long before any talk of flurocarbons and exhaust fumes.
Disease is another factor that has been with us since history started, and if you remember the Noah's Ark story, then so have the floods.
2007-05-10 08:21:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
nature is made up of a variety of factors, species, ad conditions. Humans are a natural part of this planet. So the idea that all of nature would have formed some kind of singular concious that would want to take revenge in a variety of ways that are created through complex factors is dumb. Is this a serious question?
2007-05-10 08:11:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature! We impact the environment in a huge way. The earth is a huge system and as we impact it, it changes.
2007-05-10 08:12:53 · answer #7 · answered by Carp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The natural world is dumb, and acts through simple cause-and-effect. If we drive ourselves to extinction by polluting our environment, it's our fault, not nature's.
2007-05-10 08:10:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
look at the music.
the points are bound.A curves are free.
Nature supply all civilisation."The passage that ends the wall"
point of focus a moth.
2007-05-10 10:54:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not nature is doing that,but us, the people. evth starts from us. all that is good or bad,starts from us. evth in ur life is ur success or ur failure.
everyone and everything is taking care of themselves.
2007-05-10 08:14:28 · answer #10 · answered by elsie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋