What would be useful is action, now, to clean up the tenancy of
the human species on its finite planet before it's too late.
We are talking the end of
the human species on Earth if we don't get... See Moreour acts together soon.......
Scientific evidence is springing up everywhere that indicates the massive and pernicious impacts of
the human species on the finite resources of Earth, its frangible ecosystems and life as we know it.
From my humble perspective, humanity could soon to come face to face with formidable, human - induced global challenges, but humanity's greatest challenge, (the proverbial «mother» of all potential global challenges), is the one posed to the human family by the unregulated growth of
the human species on Earth.
Leaders of the human community can not fail in their declared mission to acknowledge, address and overcome certain global challenges already visible on the far horizon that evidently result from the huge scale and growth of unregulated propagation, unrestricted consumption and unbridled production activities of
the human species on Earth.
How can the rest of the world expect these two large countries to make a serious effort to control overpopulation if the rest of the world doesn't also seriously embrace their own contributions to there already being too many of
the human species on this planet?
If we begin with a vision of planetary brotherhood living in ways that allow for the perpetuation of
the human species on earth, then the specifics can be worked on.
Agree with
Human Species on everything, including the GO GATORS part (class of 77!!)
Not exact matches
On the one hand, some
species of bacteria are responsible for some of the most nefarious of
human diseases.
On the other hand, many
species have peacefully coevolved with
humans for hundreds of thousands of years to play essential roles in digestion and in bolstering the immune system.
On the contrary the fishing of sharks for their fins by
humans has brought many
species to the brink of extinction.
Elon Musk is using his companies to pursue his personal idealistic goals: He wants to move the world to renewable energy, and he wants to establish a colony
on Mars to preserve the
human species.
In October, Musk outlined the SpaceX strategy for reaching Mars and even his goal of settling large groups of people
on the planet as part of his vision of making
humans into a «multiplanetary
species.»
If a calamity, self - made or otherwise, destroyed life
on Earth, as long as a
human colony was established elsewhere, the
species could endure.
Reading Pierre Trudeau's remarks today, I'm struck by his foresight
on issues like protection of fragile Arctic landscapes, and the capability of
humans to push our
species and others into extinction.
As Musk likely sees it, this is just another setback
on the road to turning
humans into an interplanetary
species.
Wouldn't it be a miracle if one day, perhaps in my lifetime,
humans turned their back
on the past and became the one incarnation of the
species Homo sapiens to accept that there is no god and pour their intelligence and resources into the discovery of reality?
So in that spirit, you can start realizing that it is the
human species which will go
on, if it doesn't become too self - destructive.
Marriage is a source of proles — children who carry
on the family name and tradition, perpetuate the
human species, and fill God's Church with the next generation of saints.
After God killed all the people
on the planet, why not make a better
human, instead of allowing the
species to continue after it had proven itself unworthy?
In any event, the actual answer to your query will be lost
on you, but apes and
humans had a common ancestor that was indeed more like modern apes in many ways (especially with respect to cognitive development), but identical to no modern
species.
The Church relies instead entirely
on the scientific fact that every unborn
human being is, from the moment of its conception, a member of our
species.
That platform is a delicate living matrix out of which the
human species evolved and
on which it is still dependent for life.
Now he reviews a new book
on ethics and writes,» [The author] agrees with what now seems to be a near - consensus among philosophers that «speciesism» - the view that we are entitled to take theinterests of animals less seriously than we take
human interests, simply because
humans are members of our
species - is not a morally defensible position.»
There is another literature that argues for the preservation of
species on the grounds of their possible eventual usefulness to
human beings.
everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense
on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the
human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different
species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different
species like in the movie time machine
Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer popularized «speciesism,» a derogatory term for the belief that it is acceptable to treat
humans differently from animals based solely
on species membership.
D. Green, one «reason» why God allows
human suffering is because nothing in this life is mortal, everything is fragile, life,
human beings are the most sophisticated
species on this planet, yet we easily perish via illness, disease, ect.
If there are still different possible futures for planetary life in general, and for
human existence in particular, those futures have come to depend increasingly
on decisions made by the
human species.
Not threatened, just angry and so saddened in having so many of our
species passing
on what is in effect a computer virus for the
human brain.
Has life
on earth labored along for two or three billion years in lonesome struggle eventually to eke out by accident the
human species which has to gather itself together in various fragile social arrangements in order to protect itself from the intolerable muteness of the universe?
The science (
human population genetics) is clear that our
species arose as a population, and that is what I have focused
on (since that is my area of expertise).
Despite agreeing with mainstream science
on these issues, they deny evolution: they believe that the vast majority of
species (and especially
humans) were independently created by God during earth's long history.
Humans are indeed unique — as is every other
species on this planet.
When the image of God entered into the
species which is humankind, that
species was ordained to find its order
on a plane other than the animal, and because of the presence of that divine image, dominance
on the
human plane is not a natural order but a disorder.
Humans are the only known
species on Earth predisposed to thinking there is something more to the universe than just what is immediately observable.
Apes continued to develop
on their branch, while various
human species continued
on another.
Morality, love, ethics are all natural
human characteristics which are based
on survival of the
species and evolve from societal needs.
If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal
species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring
human suffering
on a scale that has no precedent...» 7
An exaggerated focus
on human significance places value so heavily upon our own
species that it thereby drains value away from the non-
human aspects of nature.
Most of us are politely quiet and secretly roll our eyes when someone says that god speaks to them or that they have been touched by god etc., yet when someone mentions any of the other things we are quick to point out that they are wackos... perhaps it is time for us to speak up and say there is no such thing as god and it is time to clear our heads and get
on with moving the
human species forward and leaving fairy tales and silly beliefs behind.
Building
on these elemental physicochemical orders, successively more complex patterns have evolved, culminating in the most advanced organic forms comprising the
human species.
That's why I think we really need to step up the incentives to use more reliable methods that don't count
on humans to be too reliable... we just aren't as a
species.
Our biologists have catalogued the
species of life
on Earth and found no monsters or kraken, our doctors and psychiatrists have penetrated the
human mind and found no evil spirits in the heads of the mentally infirm, our meteorologists now explain the whether in terms of barometric pressure, not angry sky - gods, our geologists understand earthquakes in terms of plate tectonics and continental drift — no angry deity is shaking the ground.
For as regards infra -
human living things, even
on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real
species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the
species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.
The time will probably come when
humans are extinct
on this changing planet, like so many
species before them.
The challenges which lie ahead can not be overcome by any one person or group working
on their own but only by the
human species working as a whole.
The new story of all life
on this planet has undermined the permanence of any
species, including
humans.
When scientists announce that the chemistry of DNA is so certain, universal and uniform that all forms of life
on earth are essentially the same, a credulous public jumps to the conclusion that traditional claims for the uniqueness of the
human species have been nullified.
The much better looking Grudem, a professor at Phoenix Seminary and past president of the Evangelical Theological Society, had similarly jarred me two years before when, speaking at a fundraising dinner ostensibly focused
on the stewardship of creation, he smilingly advocated the extinction of a
species to satisfy
human appetites.