It appears that much of life on Earth needs a diverse ecosystem to sustain itself. Simply put, the sun and Earth feed the plants and the plants feed the rest of us.

If man destroys Earth’s diverse ecosystem enough to create a domino effect that in the end, wipes us all out, what does this make man in the eyes of evolution - A nasty virus that changed the world forever, but in the end the kills itself.

I have always found it strange that some viruses kill their host. Why is this? Does the virus not mean to kill the host but accidentally does, thus killing itself; or does the virus want to spread itself to another host, thus continuing its linage?

The latter makes more sense to me, but the virus of course, would not kill the host so quickly that it runs out of hosts, that would be like the former – suicidal.

With this logic, I see us humans not as a virus, but as cancer that runs out of control procreating and abusing the Earth so badly that it one day kicks us out.

In the end, I see the earth healing itself and move on.

What do you think?

I think that you are related to Agent Smith.

i think you got a good point

A virus injects it's DNA into the cytoplasm then DNA is copied into mRNA (transcription) then after the RNA polyermase stops. The mRNA is used as a template from which proteins can be made (Translation). Anyway things are a little complicated with proteins so I wont go into detail, but certain proteins and enzymes are created which are used to manufacture new viruses.

end of lesson...

we are all trying to survive, without burning fossil fuels throughout the 21st century, it would be incredibly hard to sustain population growth because we would all be doing a lot more work to find out foods. It was very necessery to go through the 20st century and of course it had downsides of harming the earth but I am confident that with 21st century we can provide for the population all around the world and not harm the earth in big ways as we did in the 21st century.

Without the kinds of breakthroughs that happend in the 19 - 20th century, most of you may not be living today. Even tho we damaged the earth and continue to do so right now, I think that things will get better.

I agree that the next 100 hundred years will be the deciding factor of the human race. We will either learn to control and work with our environment so well that we live in harmony with Earth or we will destroy that hand that feeds us.