Mother Earth's Warning

That is so true. The earth will go on and adapt.....but we are making it uninhabitable for OURSELVES!

Which is basically why we should be all the more concerned...our lust for competition and survival shouldn't be limited simply to the aquisition of wealth and master nature, it should be applied to a desire to preserve our future!

 

The earth is not retaliating to our wasteful, inconsiderate sabotage. It's adapting, as others have said. However, very few of earths supposed maladies are actually influenced by us.
The greenhouse effect would be happening regardless if we were on this planet or not.
The fact that there is a massive hole in the ozone layer is a contributing factor, but it's minor in comparison to natural change.
For any of you who know about geology, you should know that the earth has been cycling it's environment since the dawn of time. From frozen to arid and back again.
Right now, we are reaching the climax of the green age.
The earth's magnetic poles are shifting. It happens roughly every 2000 years (armageddon anyone?)

I'd like to be compasionate against war and other human atrocities, but I'd rather be compassionate to nature. Nature is innocent, people are not.
Human conflict is inevitable considering the massive population burden on our planet.
It's harsh, but near global genocide is the only thing that will even remotely resolve contention among ourselves and restore a natural balance to the planet.

When you consider that there is nearly 6billion ppl on the planet last I checked, and studies estimate that each human requires roughly 1 square mile of land to be able to survive comfortably in balance with nature, and less than %15 of the planet is habitable land, it's not hard to realize how much we encroach on not only ourselves, but other more deserving inhabitants of this earth, including plants and insects, and even bacteria. At least they are fulfilling their role in nature.

 

Just for kicks I did a bit of research, and found:
The earth has approximately 14 million sq miles of habitable land.

Agricultural sustainability studies show that the population requires an estimated 0.5 hectares (518 people per sq mile) of farm land for comfortable living, assuming the land is perpetually renewable. These figures do not reflect a maintained balance in nature however, only a maintained agricultural establishment.

Given 14 million miles and an average of 500 people per sq mile. The earth could agriculturally sustain 7 billion people.

Don't forget that we can't grow food on every plot of habitable land or we wouldn't have anywhere to live.

 

this is my theory i really think nothing is gonna happen because god put us on this earth for something and he didn't intend the world to end because he made us he wouldn't put us on this earth just for us to just watch the worl end and all of us die he made the earth with stuff that protects it so the world can't end ok don't be paranoid if your going to do that post this in that forum

 

ehhh yeah, but it's extremely probable that dinosaurs once existed, and if you believe god, don't you believe god put those dinosaurs there?

Why did they have to see the end? Why are we anymore special than they were?

And not even just dinosaurs, but other species whom have went extinct.... why are we so invincible to any of that happening to us?

I don't know...I dig your sprituality and optimism, but I also think it's a bit selfish to think that we are on some higher level than other living creatures that we are so indestructable as a species and as the planet we know now.