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Would you feel the same way about an ancient bacteria or similar that wipes out all life from the past 500 million years? I assume not (at least for the majori
by frutiger 8y ago
Would you feel the same way about an ancient bacteria or similar that wipes out all life from the past 500 million years?
I assume not (at least for the majority of readers); it's instructive to consider why one feels trees are more in tune with nature than some lowly bacteria, or as the original implication made, more in tune than humans too.
- matte_black 8y agoI think one can salivate at the idea of being able to cut down unlimited amounts of trees without guilt.
- mrfusion 8y agoIt would be really cool to make one into a house. It might be a little cramped but you could make five plus stories?
- StavrosK 8y agoI've seen people on Instagram making treehouses before and they made way more than five stories about it.
- mwilliaams 8y agoI think parent meant living in the tree.
- StavrosK 8y agoI know; I was being facetious.
- dorchadas 8y agoWell, considering there are plenty of humans who can spend their entire day, for perhaps weeks on end, without really ever seeing any nature, I don't think that's too much of a leap to say. Hard to be "in tune" with nature than interact with it. But, I think your bacteria comparison is rather poor, given that nobody ever said anything about trees wiping out all life.
- frutiger 8y agoPerhaps my point was too obtuse. I was really getting at the fact bacteria, trees and humans are all alike to Nature, and it is thusly indifferent to them all.
- klyrs 8y agoOne must consider the possibility of such idle speculation before passing such judgement. Can trees destroy humanity? No, they move pretty slowly and we can defeat them with axes and fire. And we've been doing just that and show no signs of stopping. If trees take over the world again, that can only happen in a world already devoid of humans. With climate change upon us, this is a "good" future for our planet -- intelligent life may arise again in a planet full of tall trees. It's a much better future to picture, than a planet like venus or mars. Can bacteria destroy humanity? Yes, we've bred them to be immune to antibacterials -- imagine some ancient bacterium which wiped itself out by being too lethal, gaining antibacterial resistance through cross-contamination in a lab. But it wiped itself out before the invention of airplanes, and suddenly it's capable of spreading faster and further than before. It's a stretch, but almost plausible. CRISPR might help somebody make it a reality.
- chess_buster 8y agoI have thought about this regarding viruses. But bacteria make it some how more frightening