Rules to Live Buy

Rules to Live by -- a Biostatement

Yes, the human race is quite "species-centric," and we are already paying for it. Our planet has changed greatly over the billions of years it has existed, but it has changed far more rapidly since humans entered the picture, and it has changed even more rapidly since humans have developed increasing technology. We are an advanced race, but we are advancing at the expense of the planet we call home. It is clear the Earth cannot last forever, and if humans keep using up the resources the planet has to offer, then eventually, the entire planet will look like Easter Island -- barren, rocky, and uninhabitable.

While the idea of environmental resistance is indeed applicable to many of the ecosystems on Earth, humankind has overcome much of the natural environmental resistance with technology and sheer might, and so, that is no longer a valid argument for man's existence on Earth. Man will continue to use up the environment at a record pace, not giving it enough time to recover, and so, eventually much of the natural resources of the planet will disappear. Ultimately, that will cause man to disappear, so environmental resistance will be the definitive result, but environmental resistance should be a warning that allows humans to step back and allow the Earth to regenerate, and this is not the case today.

For far too long our own human needs have been the only consideration for continual building, development, and growth. This is not working. That is clear in the polluted skies of our cities, the greenhouse global warming effect, and the many ways man is carefully and continually destroying the planet. It is the reason the coral reefs are disappearing, why man had to reintroduce the wolves to Yellowstone, and the reason the fossil fuels are disappearing at an increasingly rapid rate. Humans have not taken the environment truly into consideration for eons, and it is the planet that is suffering and will continue to suffer in the end. Humans are selfish, and do not seem to have the ability to truly visualize what the future could bring -- or they simply do not care because they will not be here to see it. That is a terribly shortsighted and selfish attitude, and it must stop if the planet is going to survive in the end. People need to be concerned about pollution because it is not going away. People need to be concerned about global warming and greenhouse gases because they are destroying the ozone and if left unchecked they can destroy the planet. It may not happen tomorrow, but it will happen, because the Earth is sturdy, and humans are treating it as if it were extremely robust and dependable. In addition, the population around the world is growing, and the Earth has only so much inhabitable space, and space to grow enough food to feed all these people. The Earth is finite, but the population is not, and that is just another problem with placing human needs before the needs of the place that houses all humans.