Originally posted by IceFire
Yeah that is an interesting way of looking at things. So what happens when we push everything else out...and I mean everything. Except maybe seagulls that rely on us to supply them with junk to scavenge.
yeah, were going to, for no good reason kill all the cows.
a number of plants and animals have formed sybiotic relationships with us. we don't compete with them, we cooperate and as a result, these organisms flurish along side us, moveing with us into new lands, pushing the native organisms out unless the natives can provide a better symbiote (at least in some regards) than what we have with us already. as long as we can keep at least one of these alive we won't go extinct. we arn't "destroying" the environment, we're changeing it, at a very rapid pace, and many organisms can't keep up.
we are not specal, we are animals.
I know this isn't your standard hippy eco- terror.
it lacks that wonderfull 'humans ****ing themselves with there own stupid aragance' that everyone seems to love.
but think about it, the only things that seporate us from any other animal is more or less an extention of us being realy realy smart. when you look at it we are just part of a 6 billion year evolution game. look up a fellow named Anomalocaris,if it wouldn't have been for that one animal, things would have been much diferent, it was a vastly superior preditory animal and every animal on the earth was forced to adapt to it or die, and as a result we go our modurn gourps of animals. today there is a supreemly deadly omnivor that is able to work cooperatively to gather vast amounts of food and alters it's domain to provide better food suplies. anything that doesn't develop a symbiotic relation ship with it, or otherwise evolves to survive with it dies out.
now it's not that I want to see most speciese die out, it'll suck, those animals are cool, but I don't think that we are going to go extinct because of a lack of biodiversity. in fact it'll probly end up being the opposite.
