HopeandGlory
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manu1959 said:naaaaaaaaaaah, god will stop it in time..........of course if there is no god we are all doomed
I rather like James Lovelock's 'Gaia' theory myself.
Lovelock is an independant scientist who's worked with NASA amongst others and is a member of the Royal Society.
Basically, he claims that the life ON earth and the life OF earth (the whole planet) functions as a single organism which actually defines and maintains conditions necessary for its survival. The world is a super-organism of which we are a part . . . not an owner, not a tennant, not even a passenger . . . but an actual componant of a whole.
The earth adapts and changes to accomodate the havoc we wreak on it - there will always be a plant or an animal which will evolve to meet any set of conditions, however toxic or apparantly unsustainable.
Of course, this animal may not be mankind - - and in our vanity why should we believe it? We've been around a comparatively short amount of time in the evolutionary scheme of things!
If we no longer adapt to/or fit economically into that whole, the earth will simply replace our species with something which will and keep moving on without us.