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Originally Posted by Vinterland I agree. I think our current exploitation of virtually every resource on the planet is an indication of the future and I see no reason why humans continuance is a "good" thing. | Well, a tree consumes resources in the soil and in the atmosphere, and competes with other trees for resources, and the humans species acts the same way. So humans just exist, like a tree -- how could one claim that our existence is either good or bad? | Trees and flora do not typically destroy entire niches, habitats, and ecosystem unless it is an "invasive species" introduced by humans so I think it is wrong to compare them. Humans take and take and never give back and that is the general rule.
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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.” |