(December 5, 2010 at 12:33 pm)Chuck Wrote:Quote:Yep. To be honest, the best thing that could happen for this planet is for climate change to kill us and to spare enough life for this planet to continue sustaining it.
I had no idea the planet was a thinking thing with a value system. For me the planet and all on it is exactly a resource to be managed for the benefit of men and his progenies and nothing else, and the continued existence of the planet and everything on it would be a silly objective without presupposing the continued existence of men and his progenies to benefit from it.
It is a pity you have lost your connection to our home, after all we are but an extension of the Earth. Maybe there are more important things in the Universe apart from human beings. Until we learn to live with our planet, we do not deserve to exist into the future.
(December 5, 2010 at 12:36 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: I think I have to agree with that sentiment. If humanity is to become extinct, I don't really care what happens to the planet after that. As long as we need to use the planet as a resource, I think we should do what we can to keep it around.
Once again, what is the importance of the human race. If we don't respect our home, why do we deserve to exist.
(December 5, 2010 at 12:38 pm)Shell B Wrote:(December 5, 2010 at 12:33 pm)Chuck Wrote:Quote:Yep. To be honest, the best thing that could happen for this planet is for climate change to kill us and to spare enough life for this planet to continue sustaining it.
Since for me the planet and all on it is exactly a resource to be managed for the benefit of men and his progenies and nothing else, and the continued existence of the planet and all on it unnecessary without men continued existence of men and his progenies, no meaningful discussion between can continue on this basis.
I didn't say I wanted it to happen. However, I do have an interest in the planet that goes beyond the species that is destroying it.
I think others do as well.
(December 5, 2010 at 12:55 pm)Chuck Wrote: This species is not destroying it. It is reforming it, although whether or not for the better by a number of different standards, including what i think is yours, is really much harder to say then you realize.
We are not destroying the Planet, we are destroying the systems that support life. The other extinctions you talk of did happen, the difference is, we are aware of our actions and are choosing to do nothing.
