Man is supposed to mess up the environment.

[Tmy]

With regards to global warming I sometimes bring up the notion that mans actions are justified. We're doing our job.

Whats wrong with man manipulating the environment? Science tells us that the evironment drastically changes over time. Maybe we're meant to screw things up. After all we are as much a part of mother Earth as the trees, beavers, and fish.

We are not interlopers from another planet. Its our destiny to change things.

Im off to burn down some old growth!

 

[evildave]

Use gasoline+diesel, it gets it started quicker. Whatever's left over, just dump it in a creek.

 

[drkitten]

With regards to global warming I sometimes bring up the notion that mans actions are justified. We're doing our job.

Whats wrong with man manipulating the environment?

Nothing as far as the environment is concerned; we could nuke the entire surface of the planet into lifelessness and force evolution to restart from the sulfur-digesting bacteria on the sea floor vents. Although the environment wouldn't care, we ourselves might.

Think of it like smoking in bed. The people who don't know you won't care that you've burned yourself to a crisp. But you might not like the experience.

 

[evildave]

I disagree. Without 'we ourselves', there wouldn't be anyone to care. If you burned to death without waking up, you wouldn't care, either. Maybe you'd dream about a luau.

There might not be time to evolve life back up to much of anything from bacteria if we wiped out everything bigger. The sun its self won't stay stable forever. If intelligent enough life to build space habitats does not manifest again (and it seems pretty unlikely it would), then that's the coup de gras on all life that we know of.

Like man, the environment we live in is not immortal. One day, the earth will be truly lifeless. Not even the bacteria will survive.

What man is 'supposed to do' is spread life to as many new habitats as possible. Make new environments for life.

That means leaving this planet behind someday.

It would be prudent to understand how a living environment operates before we undertake the task of building new ones. It would be even MORE prodent to keep this one as intact as possible until we have more than one basket to put our eggs in.

 

[Iacchus]

With regards to global warming I sometimes bring up the notion that mans actions are justified. We're doing our job.

Whats wrong with man manipulating the environment? Science tells us that the evironment drastically changes over time. Maybe we're meant to screw things up. After all we are as much a part of mother Earth as the trees, beavers, and fish.

We are not interlopers from another planet. Its our destiny to change things.

Im off to burn down some old growth!

So, how far away do you live from Love Canal?

 

[iain]

If we destroyed all life on Earth, surely God could just create some more?

 

[c4ts]

He created it for our exclusive use, so why not?