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Umm.. nature's goal is not to sustain human life. It's our goal. If we screw up the planet, we literally will be screwing ourselves. Earth doesn't need us. It w
by negamax 13y ago
Umm.. nature's goal is not to sustain human life. It's our goal. If we screw up the planet, we literally will be screwing ourselves. Earth doesn't need us. It will reset in few million years by earthquakes and volcanoes and go again for better life.
- sgwooduk 13y agoThe Revenge of Gaia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
- negamax 13y agoRevenge insinuates vindication for our actions by Earth. But Earth don't care. I like to think of it as a giant and complex spaceship rather than a living being.
- saraid216 13y agoI think you might be looking for this instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_hypothesis
- cLeEOGPw 13y agoEarth climate was never stable or unchanging. So nature certainly don't fight climate change.
- luikore 13y agoWe still don't have any proof of earth having consciousness. Even if it has, it's probably not thinking in a human way... Do you really think it has the same definition of "screw up" as we do? Maybe earth thinks forests are itchy and hopes human beings to chop down all of them...
- negamax 13y agoActually, I am suggesting exactly the opposite of what you have interpreted.
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- skore 13y ago> [...] and go again for better life. To be fair, it might also reset in few million years to be nothing but earthquakes and volcanoes. See: Venus.