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Apr 16, 2008 @ 09:10:48 | #1 | chisa96
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22/F/, Wisconsin Join Date: Mar 2008 | even if we could get the entire world to do a complete 180... kill off millions of people... strip back cars, factories, warfare, electricity, littering, waste-disposal practices, etc, etc, etc... our planet wont last much longer... it will in terms of human life-spans, probably thousands or a millionish years... but in terms of planet age, we've taken a significant chunk out of it simply by flourishing the way we have...
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Apr 16, 2008 @ 16:00:44 | #13 | chaski
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62/M/Miami, Florida Join Date: Oct 2006 | chisa96 said: ...it will in terms of human life-spans, probably thousands or a millionish years... but in terms of planet age, we've taken a significant chunk out of it simply by flourishing the way we have...
In terms of human life? I terms of life on planet earth, humans are pretty much the new kids in the neighborhood.
We may shorten the "life span" of humans as well as some other species, but in terms of life on planet earth...our destruction on the planet will be short lived.
Ants, reptiles and small rodents will most likely continue to live on planet earth for millions of years. microscopic animals and much of the life in our oceans (especially the deep oceans) will also survive.
all we are doing is trashing our own neighborhood and our own existence on planet earth. if we cause a ma** extinction, which we seem to be on the verge of, then it will just be one of a number of ma** extinctions.
the problem is humans have this inflated view of self worth...we think we are the end all and be all in the natural world (and many compare us to god...though that part is for a different topic).
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