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Adapting to catastrophes has literally evolved for millions of years. Species that couldn't adapt to change - died. The ones that survived didn't survive becaus
by alecmg 7y ago
Adapting to catastrophes has literally evolved for millions of years. Species that couldn't adapt to change - died. The ones that survived didn't survive because they successfully prevented a catastrophe.
- mathgeek 7y agoWould you say there has been any other species we know of that was able to cause, perceive, predict, prevent, and react to catastrophes before? We seem to be unique in that we can prevent and react to catastrophes, even ignoring that we can also cause them.
- londons_explore 7y agoA bird puts strong sticks at the base of its nest to prevent the nest falling out of a tree. That sounds like preventing a catastrophe.
- majewsky 7y agoSure, but that works through natural selection. All the birds that didn't use strong sticks eventually fell out of the trees and their offspring died. But natural selection doesn't work for us. We don't have a large sample of earths where it doesn't matter when humans die out on some of them.
- read_if_gay_ 7y agoI am not sure whether this is true but aren’t people saying that dogs and other animals can sense incoming earthquakes etc. and will get anxious/try to GTFO?
- Erlich_Bachman 7y agoIsn't that simply because they can hear very low sound frequencies which often come shortly before an earthquake? The technology we have now is far superior at predicting such events using geological vibrations and weather data etc (which still gives quite short warning times, but still).