First off I want to say this might be political, it might be philosophy and science all wrapped into one conversation.
Our planet is trying to kill us, we either adopt, use science and technology to fight against it but end of each day our planet is attempting to kill us.
Part of this fight are viruses…it’s battle we as species been fighting since life started on this planet.
We as species has earned our right to live here through thousands of years of evolution and adopting to changing environment.
So how do we adopt to that changing environment…the very planet that is trying to kill us?
I’ll leave this discussion open to see where it will take us. Lets be civil, lets have this philosophical discussion.
I’ll leave you all with this. Year is 2842…man touches down on distant planet that has life…it my not have intelligent life but primitive life no less.
The moment we touch down that planet will attempt to kill us.
If viruses or other types of illnesses don’t take out a huge chunk of a species numbers overpopulation will occur and through overpopulation the planet will eventually not be able to support those numbers.
Man had taken thousands of years building up to tolerance of what earth throws at us.
Lets say in year 4054…the planet that we seeded back in 2842…and their decedents returns back to earth. They won’t have tolerance built up with new virus and other disease that we had adopted too.
Now instead of saying my framing isn’t right…why don’t you explain why it isn’t? Or is that to complicated for you to understand…let alone explain yourself?
And yes…through evolution man did earn out right to exist her on earth.
Funny how libs believe in evolution but when rubber hits the mat…they run from it. So much for evolution don’t you think?
A nearby supernova could irradiate the Earth in gamma radiation. We could experience an volcanice event similar to the Deccan Trappes or Siberian Traps. The Sun could experience a major event while the Earth’s magnetic poles are in the process of reversing.
There are numerous other scenarios for wiping mankind out.
If we don’t evolve we go extinct do we not? If we don’t build up tolerance to certain viruses and other disease we go extinct. It taken us millions of years. Other sub species die off just due to environment and diseases all the time.
Seems to me you’re not practicing what you preach.
I don’t see that the planet is trying to kill us. What I see is mass communication means that we know about new diseases immediately even when the occur on the other side of the world. Jet travel means that the diseases can travel all over within a matter of hours.
Plagues of one kind or another go back to ancient times, but transportation and communication were very slow and large portions of the world were effectively cut off from each other.
I think that is a distinction that needs to be made. Neither the planet nor nature is trying to kill off mankind as a species.
Other than man, few animals have the capacity to even form a desire for the eradication of man.
Very few animals will deliberately prey on man. Tigers, lions, polar bears and a few others view man as food. Other creatures, such as Great Whites don’t deliberately prey on man but will take a human opportunistically. Animals will kill to protect their young. But very few sentient animals are after man.
NON-sentient life forms, such as viruses, just float around until they contact a suitable host cell. They don’t know whether they have landed on a human, elephant or shrew.
We don’t need to be too much in a hurry to leave. We have about a good 500 million years before the Earth’s biosphere begins to seriously degrade under increased solar radiation as the Earth approaches the inner border of the habitable zone.
