Are we humans just a parasite?

[nerp]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
We may not be parasites but we destroy anything we get near.

That wasn't always the case, though. This pattern in human behavior has occured for about 1 percent of the time we've been on the planet as a species.

In terms of the "planet as organism" theory, Lovelock is the guy you want to read. He's the father of the modern Gaia theory.

 

[Darthvoy]

I think we, as humans, are just as much as part of nature of anything else. All that we do and happens could not have happened any other way.

 

[BoomerD]

Yep. We're sucking the life-blood out of the planet...

We won't stop until the Earth is nothing more than a polluted dead hulk...but by then, we'll have figured out a way to spread to other planets, and will continue our parasitic infestation across the galaxy...

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Yep. We're sucking the life-blood out of the planet...

We won't stop until the Earth is nothing more than a polluted dead hulk...but by then, we'll have figured out a way to spread to other planets, and will continue our parasitic infestation across the galaxy...

GO HUMANS!

 

[l0cke]

I JUST watched the matrix again this morning and now this thread pops up.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: dawp

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: dawp
I wouldn't say parasite, but a part of a larger living orginism, if you view the earth as a single entity.

That would be a symbiotic relationship. A parasite takes without giving. I think humans are closer to parasites.

then an infection. and climate change is the fever.

The Earth needs more cowbell?