Reply #34: The living world is quickly turning into humans...

[yebrent]

and our food. Everything else has become expendable. Nice to look at and spend a weekend in, but not as important as fueling our population growth. Ecosystems cannot survive this way. We cannot survive without healthy ecosystems.

The world will survive the 6th great extinction, but humans may not. I know that Maple will just say that animals always effect their environment, like beavers and locusts, but we are the first animals to cause such wide spread and permanent damage. We are the first animals to cause such massive extinction.

Humans used to live as harmless as beavers, deer and locusts. Now, not so much. Something changed in the way we view ourselves in relation to the rest of the living world. IMO, believing that we are made in God's image has created a mass illusion that we are immune to the consequences of our actions. Striving for short term material wealth has replaced the value of living well closely connected to the world we depend on.