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Post by Niluial on Oct 19, 2003 4:05:24 GMT -5
What do you think… can the earth look after itself? Or can it look after itself with our help? What’s your opinion…  Voice your view! Nilly |
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Post by Mippin on Oct 28, 2003 14:57:02 GMT -5
I think that it is essential that we help the eath look after itself. There are things that the earth cannot just reproduce on it's own. We tend to be the destruction of the earth, and it's our duty to repay Mother Earth for it.
Not everything in the earth is a renewable resource, over time things that once were plentiful shall be gone. As mankind builds more and more into industrialization, we pollute and deteriorate, and with such a population as we have, it would seem nearly impossible for the earth to just take care of itself. Sure, we could just go about our ways and not take care of the earth and completely disregard it and live for a while, but what happens when everyone gets sick? when everyone starts dying? hmmm...? Then is the Earth truly looking after itself? We do depend on the earth, and in a likewise manner, I believe the earth depends on us.
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Post by Dragoneyes on Nov 9, 2003 18:03:39 GMT -5
The earth would take care of itself if we weren't here. Is that what you mean?
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Post by Firondoiel on Nov 14, 2003 19:52:22 GMT -5
If we weren't here then several problems that we have to take care of on the earth would be non-existant.
For instance, pollution would not be a problem because there would be no industries. The natural resources like oil, gold, etc. would not be running out because man is not here to use them up. So the earth probably could look after itself on those counts. But mankind is here and is causing these problems, so I believe the earth does depend on man.
I am also a Christian and I believe that God gave us the earth to be caretakers of. We should be stewards of the earth and providing care for it.
But the earth is deterioting in way that even man cannot control. The oceans wearing away the land at the beaches. The rain deterioting rock.
But there are still many ways that the earth needs man to take care of it and man should do their best at it.
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Post by Dragoneyes on Sept 10, 2004 16:05:20 GMT -5
People are always differenciating between nature and man-made things but how do you tell? At what point did what men made stop being nature. When a bird makes a nest it's nature, when a fox digs its burrow it's called nature. Why is it any different when a man builds a house?
Not to mention a number of volcanoes pour carbon dioxide and sulphur etc. etc. into our atmoshphere but we can't do anything about that.
Perhaps the endangered species need our help but really, the earth itself would get along fine with or without us. It's not like we're going to get rid of something like cockroaches.
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Post by suncrafter on Apr 30, 2006 0:53:28 GMT -5
People are always differenciating between nature and man-made things but how do you tell? At what point did what men made stop being nature. When a bird makes a nest it's nature, when a fox digs its burrow it's called nature. Why is it any different when a man builds a house? Not to mention a number of volcanoes pour carbon dioxide and sulphur etc. etc. into our atmoshphere but we can't do anything about that. Perhaps the endangered species need our help but really, the earth itself would get along fine with or without us. It's not like we're going to get rid of something like cockroaches. Darn good point you have there! |
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Post by Elentari on Apr 30, 2006 4:04:57 GMT -5
I also think its a good point. In fact, I may use that in my philosohy & ethics exam if any environmental stuff comes up ^_^
Its completely true though. Humans are animals too, so why is what we do classed as unnatural and damaging to the environment? Isn't Beavers building dams also damaging to the environment?
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Post by Haldir of Lorien on May 12, 2006 20:06:37 GMT -5
I dont really get this point at all. Firstly, when oceans and rainfall weathers and erodes rock and sediment, it doesnt dissapear, but it accumulates to form other rock masses, for example, sediment travels down rivers to form beaches on the coast, or deltas in estuaries. New rock is always being created from volcanoes, both onland and under the ocean, from the accumulation of sediments on the sea floor creating sedimentary rocks which can be uplifted, and rising of the earths tectonic plates, revealing more land is it rises from the sea. However, landmass size is shrinking due to increasing sea level due to climate change (showing that our actions have led to global warming, increasing sea levels, and the earth cannot rectify the rising sea level). I agree that we are part of nature, but we are the only organism with such intellect, and the fact that we can utilise almost anything, and modify ourselves, the environment in which we live, and everything around us just proves we are higher beings, and are no longer 'natural'. Most things we use are substitutes, for example, we use plastics to build houses, whereas when birds are building their nests, they dont go scavenging for bits of plastic that'll do the job, they use branches etc, and foxes dig burrows theirselves, they dont use machines to do it for them. However, I'm not here to debate whether we are classed the same as animals or not. Well firstly, yeah we can. We can't stop volcanic eruptions, but we can stop their damage, especially if we're talking gas escape. Carbon Dioxide is used by plants during photosynthesis, absorbing it and producing oxygen. Therefore, if humans plant more trees and halt deforestation, then these woodland ecosystems can act as carbon stores, and perhaps if there is a volcanic eruption, the carbon dioxide concentration will be lowered eventually, proving we can actually do something to stop this. Not necessarily, beavers have evolved to use the exact amount of wood they need, they dont cut down extra trees to say, create a mahogany dining table for their beaver dam, they just get what wood they need to survive. These trees can then grow again, because beavers chew quite far up tree boughs, allowing them to grow again. Also, some animals such as fish that live behind the dam might not survive without beavers present (due to a shallow water depth without the dam present), or predators that feed on beavers would have no food and die  . Every organism plays an important natural part in ecosystems, and lives at balance with nature, unlike humans who have severly destroyed the planet, and do not live in balance. We take, and rarely give back to the planet. The earth can look after itself to an extent, but we have done so much damage to it, that it cannot rectify itself anymore, and thus needs us to help it. |
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Post by Elentari on May 14, 2006 4:24:58 GMT -5
Aw man, don't get me started on coastal erosion! I learnt about it in GSCE geography, and boy do I hate some coastal defences now. The groin costal defence (long wooden thing that extends into the sea a way) stops sand from being washed down the cost by long shore drift, but stoping the sand moving down the cost causes more land to be eroded down the cost. So yeah, the earth can look after itself. We just kinda screw things up a bit.
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Post by revelation on Mar 16, 2008 0:04:24 GMT -5
Hi to all.............
It is quite easy to understand that the earth can indeed look after itself.
If the human race keeps going the way it is, the earth will protect itself by changing to a format that we can no longer exist in.
By doing so, the earth regenerates into the jewel that the creator of the universe intended it to be.
If you doubt me, look into the past and see where mass extinctions have been created by the earth, to return the earth to what it is intended to be.
Unfortunately for the human race, we are not far from being removed................as you would a malignant cancer.
Yes..........the earth will look after itself.......long after we are no longer around to pollute it.
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