As there are now so many humans / people etc on the Earth, and other things extinct,?

Question

like the Yangtzee River Dolfin, can humans / people be now termed: Vermin

Answer 1

I think & this will be contoversal.People should be only allowed 2 children the rate we are going all animals will end up wiped out.

Answer 2

About 99.9% of all species that have existed on this planet are extinct. Modern humans have been around for about 200,000 years and we have made our presence felt. We will certainly be extinct in a million years, probably before then. After that another species is likely to rise as an intelligent species and then fail. The cycle could be repeated many times before the Earth is fried by the expanding Sun in about 5billion years.

Answer 3

Vermin is a word of judgment.
The truth is that most species reproduce as fast and as much as they can. Some of them use up their resources at some point and die out. Others are managed by competitors and predation.
Our competitors can't really keep us from breeding, and the few animals that regard us as lunch are losing the extinction game.
The little things may make major inroads. Say Marburg fever, malaria, N5H1 or others.
In sum, though, we are headed for the self extinction by wiping out our resources.

Answer 4

No more so than any life-form - we have temporarily stepped oustide the normal rules that apply to life - that being negative feedback - as preditor number rise - prey is diminished and preditor numbers fall -lless preditors means prey numbers increase - plentiful food means more perditor litters survive - and so on. These rules apply to herbivors too.

Our natural Hunter gatherer and later farming social structures did much to support the sick and extend life - But now petrochemicals, technology, medicine, pesticides, transport and the like - all based on oil and coal -have pushed us beyond what is sustainable and we are eroding the very rock we stand upon - not by numbers alone but by our greed for more - and sure enough there will be a negative feedback / snag is the longer we stave it of the more violent and painful it will be when it arives.

Answer 5

By far the majority of extinct species died out long before the 1st primate walked on 2 legs. Species become extinct due to changing environments & their inability to adapt to these changing environments. While Homo Sapien Sapien has obviously contributed to "some" environmental changes, it can't be blamed for all of them.
Argueably the use of fire to cook food & warm the early hominid, as well as the switch from scavenger to predator, contributed to the extinction of a number of species. Those able to evolve & take advantage of these predators became far more prevalent (some canids & rodents as an example.)
Sapien sapien is the only animal with the ability analyze the current situation, predict future changes & take steps to avoid these dangers.
The giant predator birds of North America went extinct due to the expansion of predatory mammals from Asia into the Americas... such is life. We are now on the verge of ability to reconstruct many of our extinct species & reestablish environments to ensure their reintroduction.
Chuckle, no anthropologist in their right mind predicts extinction of Homo Sapien Sapien... this comes from "Chicken Little" group of the social sciences.

Answer 6

The popular consensus among anthropologists is that the human species has been/will be/without a doubt naturally selected for extinction. Without humans this planet would be a lush, well balanced, environmental paradise instead of a chronic battleground.

Answer 7

Parasites or Vermin, either way until mankind is wiped out by disease or natural calamity the planet will continue to decline.

Answer 8

No - "Vermin is a term given to animals which are considered by humans to be pests or nuisances." If enough people agreed with you, then maybe.

Answer 9

What's a Dolfin.

Answer 10

I think its because of the humans natural ability to adapt to a changing enviroment