The title. But I can't base a thread on just the title, because Mods and Admins can change it. OK, original title: Would the Earth be better without humans?
No because humans are one of the few animals that can tell right and wrong.
Right and wrong don't mean anything scientifically. Animals see right as eating, and wrong as not being able to find food. Some humans will tell you that its right to do X, while others will see it as wrong. Its not really something that shows we're any less confused/intelligent than other animals [Just that one bit, though, I think].
Imo, all bad things on earth has been caused by humansollution,racism etc.Actually, without humans most of th "bad" things wouldnt happened :S
Racism doesn't hurt the earth. Pollution is pollution to us, bacteria loves the toxic sludge we randomly make, even if it does happen to kill fishies and grizzly bears along the path. Using DDT might murder the bald eagle but, if the grasses and plants could hear us, they'd be glad to let us know how thankful they are for getting the pests off their back.
I see the Earth as a floating mass of ancient Rock that's gotten through the craziest bullcrap, depleting oxygen, mass wipeouts, personally, unless all life is to end in the next 500 years for some reason, I think we're being very arrogant in our assumption that we're doing outrageous things that will ruin the Earth's ability to sustain life.
Racism doesn't hurt the earth. Pollution is pollution to us, bacteria loves the toxic sludge we randomly make, even if it does happen to kill fishies and grizzly bears along the path. Using DDT might murder the bald eagle but, if the grasses and plants could hear us, they'd be glad to let us know how thankful they are for getting the pests off their back.
Which get;s back to my original question, how are we defining good and bad here? We're being asked a question without context to it.
Who says? How does war 'hurt' the Earth? That isn't making any sense because, as Mage said, you have to define what 'better' is.
Furthermore, lets assume we have defined that, and your stance is that humans make the Earth worse, then war effectively kills humans and is therefore fixing the problem, making racism a good thing. o.O
Yes the world would be different but better or worse would still depend.
if there were no humans then butterflies grow very very big and they eat lions for lunch. fish will not be able to swim. trees will grow so high that they hit the outer ozonlayer. dogs will go to space instead of humans whit laika the space dog as their leader. grizzly bears will be vegetarians. and the dodo's can fly and run like a ostrich.
It's safe to say that if, specifically, homo sapiens never transcended into their current state of power, another species probably would have. Whether or not their actions would be better or worse in terms of the quality of the planet is entirely up to humongous amounts of speculation and theory that no one can even attempt to make a ballpark estimate.
However, without a species dominating the planet and, instead of adapting to the environment, having the environment adapt to it, the planet just keeps on rolling. Very stagnant. Boring. It's a canvas without any paint. Some folks will tell you the canvas is fine as it is, others will tell you to throw some yellow on it to add some flare.
In a sense, Some view the cup as half full, but some get mad that their cup got wet.
i say no. its not if humans were gone but the lifestyles we live. if we didnt consume so many recources and lived more nature like almost like native americans when the "new world" was found then earth wouldnt be such a bad place.
I think this question can't be answered. Since we are all humans, we can never know if the wildlife of the world will actually be worse or better without us. Unless we can travel into a dimension with no existance of humans. This question can't be answered. But from our perspective. I would say yes. We are polluting the planet with all of our carbon dioxide gases. Cutting down trees that give us air. Killing wildlife. The Polar bears are almost extinct due to global warming. The Greenhouse effect will soon settle in in maybe a certain amount of centuries or even DECADES which will kill all of us. That is my perspective of the planet. The carbon dioxide levels are rising up and the Ice caps are melting. We are a horrible species TBH. But who knows what would happen with out us. But their is so many things we are doing wrong in these past decades.
well, unless we were to become a different species that doesn't have apposable thumbs, and we lived like actual animals, then yeah maybe the world would be a better place. or maybe it wouldn't....
If you look at how earth is becoming it is a real shame. Animals becoming extinct at an alarming rate, ice caps melting, and pollution. The world is slowly dying because of use and yet without use what would rise up instead? what if a species that didn't know or didn't care about the environment came to be the dominate species? Sure we are destroying the environment but we are aware of it and trying to stop. What I'm trying to say is that with us gone what will take are place?
