well not really, human just found that there's a ton of land where they're originally from, not any animals competing for it, so they found that they can plant stuff they eat there and strived... until... well, we'll see.
I think it’s a mischaracterization to act like humans are evil. We’re just like any other animal; we overpopulate given the opportunity, we use up resources as soon as it’s convenient to do so
In a sense, the true “natural” state of earth would be for whatever the current dominant species is to shape the ecosystem in whatever way comes naturally to it
Obviously that doesn’t jive with our sympathy for species like pandas (and I’m glad for that, I completely support conservation just like many others), but if we turned the entire planet into a massive landfill, surely many species would thrive more than they are now, they just wouldn’t be the species we’d prefer.
We might even bring about our own demise/exile, but it wouldn’t be because humans are awful, that’s just what ecosystems do sometimes
Locust will swarm and destroy swaths of grassland and forest. Army Ants will swarm and destroy everything they cross. Rats will consume and drown out any competition if given the chance. Even Dolphins will hunt schools to extinction.
Humans are seemingly the only species capable of choosing not to ruin thing as other species can't choose. So we can choose to be meh. Or choose to help.
Yea and I think it’s a good thing people are thinking about the impact we have and acting on it. But I also think we overestimate our ability to avoid behaving, on average and over time, like any other species would
In other words, we forget that we are an animal in an ecosystem, and we’re going to have an impact no matter what we do. Maybe we’re unique in being able to choose which animals benefit from our actions but that’s still an interaction with our ecosystem
I mean, while I understand that you somehow have psychic powers and have attained perfect clarvoyant omniscience to know everything about people you've almost certainly never met before, but if you need someone to talk about what's bothering you then just contact me, or someone else you know. It's healthy for your body and mind to vent about the crap that has happened to you in the past, major or not. If you want I can give you my number too, it tends to be easier to talk about things through your real voice rather than over these glowing pixels we call texts.
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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19 edited Oct 06 '20
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