(December 31, 2016 at 12:09 am)Godschild Wrote: To: Brian37, Rhondazvous and Mister Agenda, none off you have answered my question about your precious evolution. Why did man who is suppose to be evolved from previous species get left out of the instinct to protect the environment by not over using the resources of this planet. All other species has this instinct and use it daily.
It's not that any species has the instinct to keep itself in check for the sake of the environment. They simply do not have the mechanisms to change the environment on the level that humans can. More critically, very few have the mechanisms to build up resources like food and firewood. When animal populations boom, they eventually outstrip their resources and then starvation, disease, and aggression whittle their numbers back to a manageable level. But until they reach that tipping point they will consume as much as they can as fast as they can. Mice can create dense swarms just like locusts can, and they will consume acres of food that other animals need.
Nature is always ever in a very precarious balance, as archeological evidence shows us. Species go extinct constantly --literally every year there are numerous extinctions on the planet. Some of this is due to the direct or indirect involvement of people, and a lot of it is a case of species unable to cope with pressures from the climate, environment, or competing species. They don't have an instinct to protect the environment-- they are evolved to exploit it. Humans happen to be so effective at it that we're exploiting ourselves towards a cliff. We're not an exception to evolution, we're just a particularly amazing and dangerous example of it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould


