Posted by Larry Hoover on October 28, 2005, at 11:40:27
In reply to Re: This world does SUCk!, posted by Susan47 on October 19, 2005, at 20:35:33
> Well, man can come up with all kinds of stuff, certainly. Is time travel possible? Isn't there a recent theory that it is not? Because I predict without that, man won't be able to come up with anything good enough to save himself. Because there's likely a limit to how much we can develop beyond this burst of creativity since the Industrial Revolution, without the hand of evolution, which takes too long to help us now. Sorry. I hope I'm wrong. But.
I don't mean to just reply to this post, but to the thread, really.
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the Gaia Hypothesis. It considers the living organisms on the Earth as if they are expressions of one single organism. A meta-organism, if you will. Life is self-regulating, and if one aspect of the organism(s) gets out of hand, the tendency is that something will arise to restabilize things.
http://www.kheper.net/topics/Gaia/Gaia_Hypothesis.htm
So, if people overpopulate and destabilize the Earth, life will find a way to depopulate/stabilize everything. The more we over-populate, the more vulnerable we are to e.g. HIV, ebola, bird flu, something new. Humans might not last, but life will.
Lar
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