Kachan36
In the roughly 4.6 billion years since the formation of the Earth, there has been life on it for approximately 3.8 billion years. Humans first evolved about 5 million years ago. That's about one one-thousandth of 3.8 billion years. We've occupied the planet for about .1% of the time that life has occupied it.
In those nearly 4 billion years, life has gone from simple one-celled creatures, to multicellular, vertebrate species and later to mammals and primates, our closest relatives. And of all the species we know of, more than 90% are now extinct. That's how life remains on this planet, it evolves. We are selfish to even imagine that humans are somehow the intended end result of evolution. We will become extinct just like every other species that has come before us--most likely after a new species evolves from our genetic material.
In short, it is not only beneficial for the planet that humans eventually succumb to extinction, it is also necessary for the continuation of life on the planet.
In those nearly 4 billion years, life has gone from simple one-celled creatures, to multicellular, vertebrate species and later to mammals and primates, our closest relatives. And of all the species we know of, more than 90% are now extinct. That's how life remains on this planet, it evolves. We are selfish to even imagine that humans are somehow the intended end result of evolution. We will become extinct just like every other species that has come before us--most likely after a new species evolves from our genetic material.
In short, it is not only beneficial for the planet that humans eventually succumb to extinction, it is also necessary for the continuation of life on the planet.
wow, right again. The fact is folks, we're long overdue for ANOTHER mass extinction. That's right, another, and it won't be the last either. This planet has seen dominant and powerful species before and now they're only visible through the evolution of modern creatures like the birds, the crocodilians, the arachnids, and the fish. These are the true survivors that mammals far later came into contact with. As mammals, we have the tools to endure the harsh realities of global death, sustained body heat, being omnivorous, possessing the capacity to plan, and the several traits that made primates so successful, but this and the many generations before it have become too soft and comfortable to really use these tools to their maximum benefit. During less catastrophic occurrences, we go into a panic or sometimes lose all order and become riotous. Some of the more calculating of us turn being opportunistic to all out greed for a means to live. "Developed" humans are now ill equipped to handle the violent and inevitable changes of the world and the ever influential presence of space. In what seems the end, the "un-developed" nations would most likely have the essential baser instincts to survive a global threat, living "closer to the earth." They know how to live on the very limits of catastrophe. Observe any epidemic. They will suffer the most loss, but gain the absolute protection against the ills. Modernized humanity I'm sad to say will be overcome and die away, but that is the way of the world and it's for the best. The weak have to die to let the strong grow to the highest potential point of evolution unabated. We were just a "mutation" derived from this more effective path, a detour if you will. Natural selection will see to it that the path is corrected soon enough.
