| Re: Is the earth really dying?
Folks, how long has OUR specie been around? And before and co-existant with us, the Neanderthaler? The two humanoid groups to make any impact on this planet! Flea bites on Earth's surface, I doubt if Earth has even noticed us. Planets, if they think, think slowly. By the time Earth gets around to scratching, we'll be gone. Something wicked this way comes! The future. And it's not ours.
We won't change anything for the better, we as a specie can see a maximum of 16 years ahead. Is there anyone, who at the age of twenty is truly concerned about their children's children's children. No, there is not, because at twenty you know you will live forever. At 50 then your Grandkids are important but not their kids children. We simply don't see that far forward. We may exercise our brains postulating the far future but that's it. Just exercise.
Perhaps if we ALL lived to be 200 and bred much slower perhaps we would think more. We just all want a quick fix.
I am in agreement that our light hearted value of other species is cause for concern, no, of course we don't have any right to take them with us on our suicide mission, however, the thought occurs to me it does not truly matter, WE are the only specie that takes notice of any other. When we go, who will race around the planet trying to rescue an endangered animal. My God, that is a sobering thought.
Long live the Cockroaches!
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