Die, Humans! Is Mother Nature Sick of Us?

Shirleypal · Post by **Shirleypal** » 05-11-2009 11:04 AM

By Robert Roy Britt, Editorial Director

posted: 07 May 2009 03:16 pm ET

In his new book "The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning," (Basic Books, April 2009) James Lovelock says humanity is "Earth's infection."

Nice. We are the viruses.

While in theory it would be extremely difficult to truly destroy this planet, it's not such a stretch for some scientists to imagine us making it a place that doesn't support humans. The planet would go on, the thinking goes, but it'd get rid of us much like we shake the flu.

Lovelock's thinking is that our increasing presence is getting things so out of whack that, in the manner of a human immune system, the planet has no choice but to respond.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/ ... ed-up.html

joequinn · Post by **joequinn** » 05-11-2009 12:38 PM

As early as the 1870s-1880s the philosopher Nietzsche said that, when nature wished to die, it created man.

Our species is a failed species, and the physical and human horrors that are presently happening to us are a stage in our elimination from the planet. I only hope that, when nature is finishing shaking us off her back in the way that a dog shakes off water, there are some of us left to reconstruct the human species on a wiser, more cooperative basis.

But even if it happens, most of us will never know it...

Shirleypal · Post by **Shirleypal** » 05-11-2009 12:42 PM

Let us hope if there are any survivors Joe they don't remember the way we were, if that were the case it would start all over again, doesn't history always repeat itself, when will we ever learn.!!!

racehorse · Post by **racehorse** » 05-11-2009 01:24 PM

Our destiny is in the stars. If we seize and advance that fate as we were meant to our now endangered species will survive and prosper in perpetuity, eventually in many stellar systems and on countless wondrous worlds, as yet unknown. To fail to do so is to invite disaster and extinction and to perish.

Our options are clear and collectively we will soon make an irrevocable decision either consciously and boldly with determination for an exciting and better future for all of Humanity or in the alternative through inaction of any kind which is also a choice but one I pray we have the wisdom to decline.

Shirleypal · Post by **Shirleypal** » 05-11-2009 01:30 PM

Our destiny may be the stars if we live long enough to get there, the point of this thread is Mother Earth doesn't want us any longer and I don't think she has the abiliity to send us anywhere.

megman · Post by **megman** » 05-12-2009 12:02 AM

Bottom line is we are all part of a biological system. Biological systems have ways of eradicating infectious diseases.

We are creating the imbalance, therefore we pay the ultimate price.........

Post by **Linnea** » 05-12-2009 02:29 AM

Originally posted by racehorse
Our destiny is in the stars. If we seize and advance that fate as we were meant to our now endangered species will survive and prosper in perpetuity, eventually in many stellar systems and on countless wondrous worlds, as yet unknown. To fail to do so is to invite disaster and extinction and to perish.

Our options are clear and collectively we will soon make an irrevocable decision either consciously and boldly with determination for an exciting and better future for all of Humanity or in the alternative through inaction of any kind which is also a choice but one I pray we have the wisdom to decline.

Absolutely agree, racehorse. It is the concepts collectively and consciously that are cause for concern - or focus and intent - the key to the future.

Michio Kaku has outlined this for us - and currently gives us odds of better than 51% of reaching the next critical level.

Wonder if he has revised this lately?

USSGoblin · Post by **USSGoblin** » 05-24-2009 07:28 AM

If mankind fails to colonize other star systems, extinction is our destiny.