we are an endangered species!!! just look...

the way we are is self abusive and destructive! we kill forests and animals and people...including ourselves, we need to change what we do now! either take down all the shity corperations, or i guess we could just have planes drop bombs made of weed all over the earth periodicly. then we wouldnt really give a fuck.(im being sarcasstic, take em down...but i still supoort grass all the way)

 

how are we engangered? there are billions of us

 

the way we act. we act as though the earth will get through all the shit we put it through....we destroy where we live, there4, we go with it

 

That is the question. With all of the technology we have, life is getting more stressful and dangerous but how can you just forget about what we as humans learned and go backwards in time.

 

we may have learned much, but if you notice...egypt and rome had things like plumbing, they even had electricity, somehow it was lost for hundreds of years! we arent progresing...were regresing

 

We are not endangered. If anything, we're a plague. The population is too large to handle appropriately, and will just keep growing. We have more than enough food (even though it does not seem so in other parts of the world - but thats a political thing), tons and tons of land, and huge economies. No offence, but your argument is quite flawed. We're technological marvels and we could and can do anything we want.

 

yeah, straight up. Humans are like a virus and its host is the earth. Ever see the matrix?

 

An endangered specie!!! Ha! Soon we'll be the only animal specie on here...

 

Endangered means the population is progressively diminishing. In this we are not endangered, but we are in danger. The bigger the population gets, the less room we have...The repercussions just keep on coming from there.

1) We take up so much space that there is no longer any possible way to support ourselves AND our source of food
2) We don't take up that much space, but because our natural ressource use is NOT sustainable, we simply drive ourselves off the planet for lack of them after a while...
3) Technology develops to the point where we can MAKE our food, therefore eliminating all other forms of life on the face of the Earth and living in a steel prison...

Not very nice choices

 

i agree with the first two/but the last one we can make our own food people are just lazy.people need to go back to growing gardens and making their own food.

 

Cool! Then what are we waiting for?

Get busy and breed, and lets build the population archologies of the future!

More seriously though, as the demographers don't predict we will add that many more billions of people anytime soon, what does it matter, if cities grow a little closer together to each other, than they were in the past? Wouldn't that help shorten commuting distances?

 

That would require the capacity for sustainable development on the general populations part. It's true that it's a much more efficient way to live, but if the earth's atmosphere disintegrates due to global warming, toxins, acid rain, and all other doomsday-yet-much-too-real environmental issues, the soil won't be able to sustain life even if we tried.

 

I don't want to grow my food. It's too much work, nor do I have the farmer's investments into farming equipment. I would much rather do what I am good at, programming computers or at least something technical, and make plenty of money, and then pay other people to grow my food, other people who like being outdoors, far more than I do.

That's one of the great benefits of human population expansion. That we can increasingly make choices like that, and trade what we are good at doing, for that which we aren't good at doing, for the benefit of ALL.

 

i'd change "endangered" with "overpopulated".

,asia

 

We are the most disposable species right now. The largest, and most harmful to the planet, unfortunately. A plague is right.

 

Whatever do you mean, by "disposable" species? Not even our burgeoning huge numbers, makes humans any more "expendible." We get our value imputed to us by God and we value ourselves, so each and every human life is just as precious and sacred and valuable, regardless how large the overall population may grow.

And I am not concerned with only individual God-given human rights to procreate, but also for the collective. When I add up all the powerful reproductive urges humans commonly feel aching within them, and all the compelling reasons why billions of parents have as many children as they do, what I come up with, is an apparent global goal and natural desire to enlarge the entire human race, for the greater good of so many individuals, and for ALL.

Accordingly, I believe most people naturally would not at all mind, for humans, their own kind, to manage to grow and grow towards "plague-like proportions," wherever and whenever God may allow. As nobody seems to want to be told just how many children they may be allowed to have, and large families often naturally continue, even in the most heavily of populated places. But "plague" isn't quite the right word, as its negative connotations are too evident. Rather, I see the growing world of people, more like a "planetary pregnancy," that must progress and grow towards its looming "birth" of some sort, into a far better era, lest the "pregnancy" is in serious trouble. The "pregnancy" metaphor is useful, because it suggests that a proper accomodation for world population growth, is to "let it bulge naturally," and naturally grow bigger and bigger, much like a visibly pregnant woman would proudly don her maternity clothes and announce her excitement at adding another precious member to her family. And also, it suggest that all parts of the pregnancy, or all parts and cities and countries of the world, should all be growing and growing in human population, all at the same time, side by side, in cooperation for the greater good. And of course it suggests, that there is no better alternative, than to welcome human life to continue to naturally spread and flourish, as God designed and commanded for humans to do.

 

I agree that we are not endangered but we are IN danger.

Our choices will catch up with us one day, thus the possibility of becoming endangered, though that might not be any time SOON, things should change now.

In our attempts to progress, I do agree that instead we are regressing. Our attempts to progress have put too much stress on our environment, and our way of living.

Humans have become more and more lazy with the changing times as more technology becomes available.

My fiancee says to me one day, when discussing how we are in desperate need of a vacuum cleaner, "We should get that robot vacuum cleaner that just rolls around on the floor and vacuums for you"

I responded, "No thanks, I'd rather vacuum myself... Don't need to become anymore lazy than I probably already am"

He laughed at me and thought I was ridiculous, but it's true... to me, it's disgusting that humans have become THAT lazy.

The environment is suffering from our choices, and it WILL kill us sooner or later... Scientists already think that the worlds pollution is a big cause of the reason so many people have asthma these days. The statistics of those who have asthma have increased generously as the years go on, and I do believe that it is related. The death of our environment, is the death of the human race. We cannot live without Mother Earth, and if we destroy it we are doomed, whether we are overpopulated currently or not.

 

we are self distructive... but people don't see it because they don't think ahead

 

oooo what now! who called it punks??........ me.

 

a kanggaroo can choose and dose so, when and if it should have a young-en based upon the sesion... these abilities that animals posses are things we as humans posses as well... its just that we have lost touch with our inner selves by things, as apples and o mentions, such as lazzness and our reliance upon modified pharmacuticals and food.

The world probably wont change, even though we have the power to change it in a constructive way that may ensure our future..
i think most of us are just to blind, ignorrant or.... lazy