claire333 wrote:
Sand wrote:
Like plants and other animals we breathe, eat, defecate, modify the environment and reproduce. That is all nature seems to require. All else is egotistical decoration.
Maybe at one time humans could have been viewed in the same light as plants and animals, thought I am not even convinced of that much, but we have become quite the destructive and festering blight.
If you assume that the Earth should always remain a great place for the current form of organic life to flourish then of course you must be distraught over humanity's present concentration to change the inter-relationships of temperature, atmosphere, fertility etc.
But the universe exhibits no concern for any particular form of chemical activity on any of its minuscule blobs of solid matter. Life could well be a passing temporary phase on such an insignificant blob. Look at Venus and Mars, both of which may have had seas and perhaps even a form of life. Look at the messes they are now(from our point of view). So what?